Building ‘South Texas Triangle’? Geekdom looks south to recruit startups
Graham Weston, co-founder of Geekdom, addresses a crowd at the downtown co-working space on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.By 2011, Rackspace Technology co-founder Graham Weston had faced years of hiring problems in San Antonio.
“The city needed a startup community so when people have ideas they can see them live and thrive,” Weston said. Geekdom CEO Charles Woodin talks with Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, right, and Bret Piatt, CEO Jungle Disk, after a news conference at Geekdom on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.“San Antonio is very uniquely placed as a cultural epicenter for Latino and Hispanic cultures,” Woodin said. “It’s a very relatable city.”
At an open house Feb. 23, Woodin told a crowd of tenants, staffers and supporters that Geekdom’s goal was to launch 500 startups over the next decade, with at least 75 percent of them headquartered in San Antonio.
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