“That’s why we attract people to do things in our state.” “It is availability of talent, and relevant talent,” said Frank Artale, a partner at venture capital firm Ignition, located just across Lake Washington from Seattle. Google GOOG.O has two growing centres in Seattle and nearby suburbs, with more than 900 employees. Zynga, the online gaming company that is poised for a huge public stock offering, recently took up space just south of downtown alongside other start-up companies. A five-minute walk south is Facebook's new office, double the size of its current rented space, which has jumped from three engineers to 60 in little more than a year. Electric streetcars hiss past its new headquarters while the lake glistens in the distance.Īmong the new kids on the block is CRM.N, the fast-growing champion of so-called cloud computing. The anchor tenant of the neighbourhood is AMZN.O, the Web 1.0 retailer that, unlike most of its brethren from the dot-com era, has evolved into a lasting powerhouse. Many of the glass and steel buildings were built by Paul Allen, the second-richest - behind Bill Gates - of the numerous ex-Microsoft employees who have taken the wealth and expertise earned in the personal computer era and applied it to new ventures. Inc's headquarters is pictured in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle November 8, 2011.
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