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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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3. A bunch of my girlfriends university classmates took their tech business to a red state
Wed Feb 13, 2013, 05:44 PM
Feb 2013

Not for any ideological reason, but because their largest customer made them an offer they couldn't refuse that offloaded a lot of their overhead costs if they co-located with them. As a small company doing under a million a year in revenue that was very, very attractive.

Unfortunately they quickly found they couldn't get a soul to show up for a job interview and there were few locals with high school diplomas, much less experience writing firmware and designing circuit boards.

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