Seattle is the cloud capital of the world
February 19, 2014
Grazed from GeekWire. Author: John Cook.
There’s a renaissance of sorts occurring in Seattle right now, from the chart-busting hits of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to the bone-crunching Super Bowl win of the Seattle Seahawks to a tech community that’s firing on all cylinders. Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain certainly likes what he sees in his adopted city, and he thinks more good things are to come, especially in the burgeoning tech community. So, what is the community lacking?
“I honestly think that some of it is confidence, to really believe in ourselves,” said McIlwain, speaking on this past weekend’s GeekWire podcast. “One of the things I loved about the Seahawks this season is they talked about this idea of: ‘Why Not Us?’ For a long time, forever as we know, we didn’t have a Super Bowl champion in Seattle…
I think our tech community — we’ve got the talent; we’ve got the access to the insights and the information; and we are on the front of a lot of these big trends So, why not us for the next 10 years? I think it should be a rallying cry for the community.”…
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