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Houston is, for some definition of "tech". It's just more focused on petroleum and ocean engineering, which don't get a lot of play I'm these circles.
by vonmoltke 10y ago
Houston is, for some definition of "tech". It's just more focused on petroleum and ocean engineering, which don't get a lot of play I'm these circles.
- ghaff 10y agoExactly, people in certain circles have this somewhat self-referential definition of tech that means "what they do a lot of in Silicon Valley." And ignore things like the oil industry or pharma/biotech which are very much tech but just don't happen to have much presence in SV.
- mturmon 10y agoThis whole thread, unfortunately, is conflating "tech" with "information tech". When talking about "big picture" stuff like national real estate trends and macro-economics, the HN bubble is limiting.
- _delirium 10y agoThere are a ton of even pretty straight-up tech jobs in those industries, e.g. ExxonMobil's Houston office has a large machine learning group.