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I am biased since I am a local, but Utah Valley is on the cusp of recognition as a tech hotbed. Just in our office park in the corner of Provo, we have 1. ht
by jergason 13y ago
I am biased since I am a local, but Utah Valley is on the cusp of recognition as a tech hotbed. Just in our office park in the corner of Provo, we have
1. http://www.ancestry.com/
2. http://www.qualtrics.com/
3. us, http://i.tv
4. http://www.moneydesktop.com/
5. http://www.vivint.com/en/, recently bought for $2 billion[0]
There are also a bunch of other smaller tech companies.
http://www.domo.com/ http://www.domo.com/ and the Adobe campus are also about 10 minutes away, and there are various tech companies scattered all the way up through Salt Lake.
http://www.ng-conf.org/ http://www.ng-conf.org/ is coming to SLC next year, and the local tech meetups are active and widely attended. Combine the good tech scene with the extremely low cost of living and it is a great place to be.
0: http://seekingalpha.com/article/878211-blackstone-buys-vivint-what-you-need-to-know
- saosebastiao 13y agoI'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that vivint is a tech company. They are a sales company that sells technology that is entirely developed out of house.
- jergason 13y agoI'm familiar with Vivint's history. They are in the midst of an attempted transition towards becoming a tech company, partially to escape the terrible reputation they developed when they were APX.
- philwelch 13y agoIt doesn't really surprise me that Ancestry is based in Mormon country. Interesting.
- saturdayplace 13y agoI suspect that there's a lot of cross pollination of talent between ancestry and the church's familysearch.org there.