Name: So long Silicon Valley. Here are the new tech hubs.
Uploaded: 2021-02-24
Duration: 3 min 21 s
Description: Not exactly the places you’d think.

So long Silicon Valley. Here are the new tech hubs.

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I wanted to start by actually asking you guys to kind of give me the pitch. So I live in Silicon Valley, have been here for a long time. What can you say to me to get me to move to Topa or to the West Virginia? And I'd like to start with you, Ben. Sure. So Tulsa Remote was a pioneering program in 2018 when we launched with the pitch to remote workers from across the country to join us in Tulsa. And we were overwhelmed by the response from Day one Really 10,000 applications in the 1st 90 days. Um, and we've not looked back since, and we brought over 500 members to Tulsa over the last two years with a retention rate of over 90% which is probably the thing we're most proud of, and we were able to introduce them to a vibrant and inclusive community, which is my hometown. And it's been an incredible journey ever since, and we look forward to many more along the way and what's like, What's the selling point? You know, I know that you're incentivizing people, uh, with money, of course, but tell me about selling point for Tulsa. Sure, so the $10,000 number obviously grab the headlines, but we believe it so much more. It's really about the community in which we're able to integrate our Tulsa remote members into. And so the ability to really showcase why Total is a special community building off of the 15 plus years of work that we have done to build Tulsa as a very vibrant and inclusive community with things like Gathering Place, which is a half a billion dollar public private park on the city's riverfront or the arts district in our downtown community. Or the fact that Tulsa has two James Beard nominated chef last year. Those kind of hidden gem facts that you know have a big city amenities but the small town charm of Tulsa that really surprised our members and then leaning into the fact that you know there are part of a community of over 500 people that also work from anywhere and so having that ability to integrate them into this robust, vibrant community has just been what we believe that the biggest selling proposition for our program, um, Brad, let's bring you in. I know that the West Virginia program is much newer and it's just starting out. But tell me in your words, why should I move to West Virginia? Well, use the word that John Denver almost having it's clearly a place that has amazing people. I've often said if my car ever broke down, I'd wanted to break down in West Virginia for two reasons. People are kind enough to stop, and they're crafty enough to know how to fix it and then the second, our natural resources, their unparalleled in the United States. In some cases in the world, we have over 2000 miles of white water density. We have the top three ski resorts in the mid Atlantic states. We have 1.5 million acres of public land and 1500 trail 1500 miles of trails. We have the highest summit technical summit to scale east of Wyoming, with over 3500 roads courses and 500 boulder climbs. It's just an amazing place. It's a place where the Mercedes Benz World Cup from mountain biking will be held in 2021. So if you are someone that loves that entrepreneurial spirit, you love to be a part of a community you want to be surrounded by natural resources at around parallel West Virginia is indeed your home. Take me home country roads.