{"id":2771,"date":"2015-02-04T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2015-02-04T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:01:06","slug":"utah-became-next-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/04\/utah-became-next-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"How Utah Became the Next Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker has a great article on how Utah is attracting the top technology companies. Salt Lake, Provo, and Ogden are all in the top 15 cities of the &#8220;super-sector&#8221; for technology companies according to a recent study. With apologies to a specific Friend of the Park Rag, \u00a0you&#8217;ll notice <strong>Park City is not on this list<\/strong>. The Friend recently pointed out three people, sitting at tables nearby, who had just started technology companies around Park City (in rebuttal to an article we wrote on &#8220;where&#8217;s the economic diversity&#8221;). Yet, how does Ogden\u00a0get on this list and we don&#8217;t? For that matter, how does Ogden take our recreation companies? We suppose that&#8217;s an article for another time.<\/p>\n<p>If you have few minutes, we&#8217;d recommend reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/utah-became-next-silicon-valley\">New Yorker article<\/a>. It manages to bring together religion, transportation, education, and relationships between local governments in order to explain why Silicon Valley has moved east. Three out of four of those things &#8230; we don&#8217;t really have going for us. And with education, it&#8217;s not likely too many of our Park City High School grads are forgoing college to work at one of the 3, billion dollar startups in Provo.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a little bit of an eye opener.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/utah-became-next-silicon-valley\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2772\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/newyorker-silicon.jpg\" alt=\"newyorker-silicon\" width=\"271\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker has a great article on how Utah is attracting the top technology companies. Salt Lake, Provo, and Ogden are all in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}