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They have 7 people in SF and 45 in Utah
by austenallred 11y ago
They have 7 people in SF and 45 in Utah
- pkulak 11y agoThat's how you do it. Rent a tiny space in SF for your token SF people, then open offices in Portland, Boulder, Austin, etc. You're still an SF company, but your runway is twice as long as everyone else's.
- mooreds 11y agoThis strategy needs a name. Maybe "The SF funding tentacle"?
- ectoplasm 11y ago"Bait and switch"?
- DannoHung 11y agoThe East Texas Shuffle
- dctoedt 11y agoAustin is considered Central Texas. (East Texas is famous, or notorious, as where patent trolls like to file their lawsuits.)
- DannoHung 11y agoYeah, I was riffing on the idea of finding a favorable municipality for business reasons and actually running your company where you actually want to run it. Although given the history of this sort of thing, I guess it'd be more appropriate to call it the Maryland Shuffle.
- klean92 11y agoThe siphon