Alternate point of view
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Replying to @eladgil
Rural population of the United States is 60 million. If networking and opportunity is all shifting to online shouldn't we have seen a single startup come from a non University or USA mega city? Also, industry towns have been around forever. Saying they're going away requires...
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @eladgil
Extraordinary evidence (it's an extraordinary claim).
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @eladgil
In fact we have! Thank you for asking! Automattic (Wordpress) is a fully distributed unicorn. sendgrid grew from Boulder which doesn’t have the “university landscape” everyone said a startup hub must... (cont)
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Intercom and Talkdesk are from Dublin and Lisbon respectively (tho ppl call them SF companies)
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Replying to @dunkhippo33 @eladgil
Boulder, with Austin, is the quintessential University landscape startup city. I don't know much about automattic but the wiki says the hq is sf. You said "yes we have" but none of your examples come close to evidence that we have. I agree with you that social and startup...
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networks are going online, but I would bet good money on the continued existence and thriving of industry towns like SF metro, especially for large scale tech cos (as opposed to fast cash flow focus ones).
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Molson Hart Retweeted Molson Hart
These are my thoughts on the topic. I believe we are in the midst of a slow global telecommuting boom.https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/status/1137775676793208833?s=19 …
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