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Seems strange to put a corporate real estate specialist with experience at massive companies in charge of startups. 2 very different skillsets.
by mathattack 10y ago
Seems strange to put a corporate real estate specialist with experience at massive companies in charge of startups. 2 very different skillsets.
- fapjacks 10y agoYeah, totally. But that's not what governors think about when they make appointments like that.
- chimeracoder 10y ago> Yeah, totally. But that's not what governors think about when they make appointments like that. No doubt Cuomo was focused 100% on how this would affect his 2016 and/or 2020 presidential run, not how it would affect the state of New York.
- mathattack 10y agoShe could have just as easily been a big donor. Just an appointment that seemed destined to either benign neglect or failure.
- morgante 10y agoConsidering that StartupNY is overly fixated on real estate (one of its primary requirements is that the company locate on university property), the skillsets have more overlap than you might imagine. Of course, this fixation on real estate and exogenous goals is probably a big contributor to the failure of StartupNY to produce meaningful jobs in sufficient quantities.
- builtinbuffalo 10y agoNot when you factor in that this program revolves around the startups using state owned and run real estate facilities. To be eligible for the program, you must locate your company on a designated "campus." So, you get incentives...but the state gets new tenants and fat profits, since most of the spaces offered to house a startup are recently renovated warehouses and empty university space.