Top metro areas for pandemic-era job growth Axios #RiseOfRest

A Tech Revival for America’s Hometowns on.wsj.com/3nK5zo2 Ro Khanna: “Americans should not have to leave their hometowns in order to seek opportunity or build wealth.” #RiseOfRest The Wall Street Journal

“We helped to establish the Silicon Valley,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told Time. “Now we’re going to do the Silicon Heartland.” bit.ly/3nNJ3L3

2021 was a record year for #entrepreneurship. EIG analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data found that 5.4 million new business applications were filed. Explore how the business formation boom is impacting communities through local coverage of the startup surge in MA, OH, and WA. ⬇️🧵

What’s on Steve Case’s investment radar? #ThirdWave companies across the U.S. meeting real world problems w/ next generation solutions. Hear how place factors into tomorrow’s innovation landscape on the latest episode of FORTUNE’s #LeadershipNext. rvltn.vc/3tUJQO4

No one has done more for this mission than Steve Case!

Revolution CEO Steve Case invites 3rd wave internet entrepreneurs to get on the bus bit.ly/3o0ZW4Q

A Rustbelt revival looks to be in the making, driven by supply chain reshoring, tech upgrading & perhaps most of all by affordable housing. My new one in The Wall Street Journal w/ @DavidJAdams: wsj.com/articles/goodb…

Steve Case: "Chattanooga is really a trucking capital, a logistics capital, almost the Silicon Valley of trucking" fortune.com/2022/01/26/ste…

The skilled #immigration provisions in the America #COMPETESAct would provide more pathways for immigrant entrepreneurs and STEM graduates to contribute to the vitality of the U.S. economy. More: eig.org/news/eig-appla…

Far From the Big City, New Economic Life nyti.ms/3uGRD2p “If remote work remains widespread, their counties could benefit from a decisive price advantage.” #RiseOfRest

If we’re going to bring tech jobs EVERYWHERE, not just the coasts, we have to start with the basics. We live in a world of remote work and school — everyone deserves high quality, high-speed internet.

Numbers don't lie: America's most resilient jobs are venture-backed bit.ly/3pjLwxp @NVCA: “Venture is creating jobs across our great country. This is a trend that policymakers should encourage by focusing on building and supporting emerging ecosystems.” #RiseOfRest

"What's good for the country depends on the performance of its cities, tech hubs and metro regions," writes Richard Florida trib.al/LpV6LIl

"The place to be was Silicon Valley. It feels like now the place to be is the internet." Brian Chesky on.wsj.com/3txHWB6 #RiseOfRest

Here are 3 trends from our new look at pandemic-years tech-sector geography: --“superstar cities” aren’t going anywhere --A group of Sun Belt & Heartland “rising stars” are emerging --The “rise-of-the-rest” has gained traction, though tentatively as yet brook.gs/3ITe0Ws

All of this describes, for the moment, a “two-track” reality in which tech’s “winner-take-most” tendency persists even as signs emerge of new growth in new places—what Steve Case calls the “rise of the rest.” Both things might be happening fpr now. 5/10 brook.gs/35uDtaB

How the Pandemic Broke Silicon Valley’s Stranglehold on Tech Jobs on.wsj.com/3Ib6iWy The Wall Street Journal: “Silicon Valley, make way for Silicon U.S.A.” #RiseOfRest

Why there’s never been a better time to start a business trib.al/tEMI4bp

.Steve Case says, “The first wave of the internet actually was fairly geographically dispersed… It was just the second wave... when it shifted from building the internet to... building on top of the internet, software apps… that’s when Silicon Valley rose to prominence.”