Sarcasm aside, I'm starting to think Bezos is fed up with Seattle.
From Lucinda Shen's roundup at Fortune, August 20:
The work-at-home frenzy has led to the natural prediction that tech companies may decentralize their workforces away from the typical and pricey New York and Silicon Valley hubs to less trafficked areas....MORE tidbits
One apparent pick: Denver, Colorado.
Palantir, the big data company that is reportedly seeking to go public via a direct listing, recently changed its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Denver. And e-commerce giant Amazon is planning to add some 3,500 corporate jobs and 900,000 square feet of office space in Dallas, Detroit, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, and, yes, Denver.
Meanwhile, startups in California, New York, and Boston raised about 74% of venture capital dollars in 2019. But as more dollars chase fewer ideas, investors are starting to look outside the typical hubs. And Colorado-based startups did rank in the top 10 states—raising about $2.5 billion that year, representing about 1.9% of all U.S. VC dollars that year, per the NVCA’s 2019 yearbook.
If the prediction comes to pass, a new crop of startup founders could rise from these newer hubs.
That’s not to say the top hubs are dead. Amazon has, after all, named New York among the cities in its expansion plans. As for Palantir, it’s still unclear the exact scale of the move....
