This isn't directly Amazon HQ2 related, but it gives some insight as to what companies' decision makers are thinking when they expand tech operations in ATX.
Walmart gets creative with new tech design center in downtown Austin:
http://www.512tech.com/technology/walmar...-downtown-austin/f3iWwhdaUtUQeIjhZEt0RI/
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The decision to invest in Austin is part of a strategy to recruit skilled tech workers by locating where they are, said Jason Norris, Walmart director of engineering and Austin site lead.
“At Walmart we are really changing the way we work in a lot of ways,” Norris said. “Austin is a really unique city in that you have a very deep pool of that talent, but you don’t incur some of those higher costs of living that you do on the West Coast and East Coast,” Norris said.
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“Austin has many characteristics that make it appealing to major corporations looking for deep technical talent,” Austin-based industry analyst Patrick Moorhead said. “Technologists like to live in Austin because it’s “happening” with music, festivals and downtown life as well as being affordable. Employers like it because technologists like it, it’s much less expensive than other tech hubs in New York and Silicon Valley and there is a large pool of talent.”
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