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People don't want to live in the valley. With their push on cloud it makes sense to bolster their regional offices as sales territories solidify. An added bonus
by Wonnk13 8y ago
People don't want to live in the valley. With their push on cloud it makes sense to bolster their regional offices as sales territories solidify. An added bonus is most teams will have a bit more flexibility in where headcount is- just look at the growth in Boulder, Austin and Chicago the last couple of years.
- JamesSchriver 8y agoI don't disagree, but I also feel like the current climate in the digital space, including in the "cloud", has significantly put the brakes on the whole notion of placing your business in the hands of some self-righteous tech company full of fanatics that wield their company's power like tyrants that could role the dice one day and all the sudden what you do and did for years is now "evil" and must be remove from their infrastructure at short or no notice.
- kwizzt 8y agoI don't quite understand this sentiment. Maybe it's because I or the company I worked for haven't experienced this kind of situation. Can you shed some light on what big corps like AWS, Google, MSFT did to other people?
- Meekro 8y agoThe Daily Stormer was kicked off Google's domain registrar following the 2017 Unite the Right rally. Microsoft's Azure cloud was the host for Gab.com, and threatened to kick them off unless Gab.com deleted several anti-semitic posts. These kinds of hateful websites have always been around, but we didn't have registrars and hosts trying to censor them until 2016 or so.
- dmode 8y agoMajority of this expansion is building out data centers. Their engineering hub will continue to be in the Valley, where they are massively expanding (and perhaps NY and London)