Numerous Silicon Valley tech companies have settled in Austin in recent years, but just as many are now leaving due to 'lackluster' startup scene.

A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show::Numerous Silicon Valley tech companies have settled in Austin in recent years, but just as many are now leaving due to ‘lackluster’ startup scene.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      428·
      11 months ago

      I know, right?

      Crazy how many companies have left CA in recent years.

      This article is a lot of noise, but very short on actual stats.

      TX has been attracting tech biz since the early 90’s with beneficial taxing structures. I find it hilarious how people just started noticing like 3 years ago.

  • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    863·
    11 months ago

    ‘A massive tech exodus’ in the headline, then names 3 large companies who never actually moved to Texas, and 3 companies nobody’s ever heard of.

    This isn’t journalism.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    55·
    11 months ago

    If you have skilled, high speed workers, you don’t want your lab in a state where you can’t get healthcare, such as an abortion.

    I bet obgyns are packing up to leave Texas as well, and maternity wards will soon close down.

    • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Already been happening in lots of red states, no staff to help with pregnancy

    • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
      172·
      11 months ago

      I wish. The city itself is fine, being in Texas isn’t.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      It’s ironic people use “Austin” to refer to the city itself as well as the government of Texas, and the two Austins hate each other.

  • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    322·
    11 months ago

    TechCrunch is reporting that startup founders, like Techstars Managing Director Amos Schwartzfarb, are announcing their decisions to leave Austin’s “lackluster” startup scene.

    Who?

  • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachtsEnglish
    344·
    11 months ago

    “I moved the company here because Joe Rogan said it was a cool place but innovation isn’t magically happening as fast as I thought it would. Bummer.”

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      11 months ago

      I dont think the overlap between tech worker and joe rogan listener is that significant, is it?

      • Fisk400@feddit.nuEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Why? Is there some kind of test tech workers has to do that excludes them from being dumbfucks?

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1213·
        11 months ago

        Pretty sure Tech Workers, Joe Rogan Listeners, and Libertarians are a ven diagram that looks awfully like a circle.

          • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.worldEnglish
            18·
            11 months ago

            The difference between people who adopt every internet of things device imaginable and people who would never own or permit such a device in their home under any circumstances.

  • DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    Of the examples they give, half never moved there in the first place, several are moving elsewhere in Texas, and one is going to Arizona. Very misleading title.