Posted on 05/01/2016 10:38:43 AM PDT by Lorianne
When Nate and Vanessa Quigley were deciding where to build Chatbooks, the photobook startup the married couple founded together, they looked for a place deep with creative and technical talent — preferably, that they could have all to themselves. That ruled out the rocketship-heavy Bay Area, where Nate’s friends running tech companies told him that “if they hiccup even for a second all of their best talent bolts.”
Florida, the Quigleys’ home at the time, didn’t have enough tech talent. In New York, it seemed the company would need to be in Brooklyn or the Flatiron area to access the right workers—and neither of those places were practical given that the Quigleys have seven kids. Boston, where Nate attended Harvard Business School and had a strong network, didn’t have enough of the creative people the couple would need to run their business. “Also, the winters are too long and the skiing isn’t good,” says Nate.
That left Salt Lake City, where Nate knew a handful of seed stage investors and fellow entrepreneurs. “There was creative and technical talent in a secret spot where I wasn’t competing with rocket ships,” he says. Today the Provo-based company’s team of 65 includes 23 full-timers, the majority men on the technical side, and 42 part-timers, the majority of them millennial moms, who handle art, design and marketing. The staff have a loyalty not commonly found in the Bay Area. Two-and-a-half years after launching, Nate says “We’ve lost zero people that we didn’t want to lose.”
Chatbooks is just one of a growing number of tech companies springing up in Utah. Though the state’s 4,300 tech companies are a small part of the picture, they’ve contributed to some impressive economic growth.
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I didn’t go to HSB to know that Boston and NYC were toxic to businesses. Not too common smart smart. Maybe he should take common core math next semester.
what was the point to indicating that the full timers were mostly men while the part timers were mostly not just women, but “moms”...????....
In fact in today’s politically correct world, isn’t it bigoted to talk about women as moms?????
Forbes?? It is Boise City, Oklahoma. In Idaho it is just Boise.
Not sure but I suspect the couple is Mormon and encourage women to have kids and perhaps be part-time working moms. The power couple has 7 kids themselves.
From the article, Utah’s growth is largely internal due to a baby boom among those already residing there.
i.e. non-mormons.
Good Lord. Have we lost our common sense to that degree?
I didn’t go to HSB to know that Boston and NYC were toxic to businesses. Not too common smart smart. Maybe he should take common core math next semester.
Where’s Pittsburgh, Columbus, NYC, Boston, Chicago, Minneopolis, Cleveland? All those democratic controlled cities. Oh, they are going down the toilet.
The obsession with growth has ruined many a town and small city.
There seems to be an obsession based on the blind acceptance of the idea that bigger is always better.
But bigger usually brings newer and bigger problems:
More traffic, more construction, water shortages, pollution, higher crime, higher taxes, etc.
In my experience those promoting growth usually don’t consider quality of life when pushing their agenda.
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