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I wonder who owns the alfalfa farms because doing business in Utah is wild. There is absolutely no separation between business, government, and the church. It's
by crmd 4y ago
I wonder who owns the alfalfa farms because doing business in Utah is wild. There is absolutely no separation between business, government, and the church. It's like a single, hyper-efficient, hybrid organization. I spent a week there when one of my old startups was planning a data center in Utah (I'm dating myself). Being in the executive mansion felt like a corporate HQ. Nonstop stream of business people coming in and out of fast meetings with the Governor and his bizdev people. He was a nice guy, Gov Herbert was his name if I remember correctly. I remember at one point we couldn't find a conference room, and he was like, "use my office, end of the hall." I'm trying to imagine what level of capitalist you'd have to be at for Gavin Newsom or Cuomo to be loaning you their office unsupervised.
- polartx 4y agoThanks for sharing that story, I love hearing about the old guard of Utah’s tech sector (which isn’t to say ‘old’ at all, just the rate that things change.) I myself did some data center shopping in the beehive state many years ago. One non-descript building after another. One lobby had a “Data Center Quarterly” magazine which I got a kick out of.