Over the last several weeks, Seattle has earned some coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The Information, and The SF Chronicle about our ranking as a “tech” city, or more directly as an alternative to San Francisco. It seems like Seattle has been the city of potential since I was a kid growing up here in the shadow of Microsoft. What might all those talented (and wealthy) tech workers leave Microsoft to create? But it’s never really come to pass.
It's a fair point -- I don't really mean that ex MS people didn't build anything (Expedia?), but rather that it didn't blossom into the kind of concentration of startup and investing activity you now see in, for example, NYC.
I guess you don’t think Amazon Web Services got built by ex softies?
It's a fair point -- I don't really mean that ex MS people didn't build anything (Expedia?), but rather that it didn't blossom into the kind of concentration of startup and investing activity you now see in, for example, NYC.