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Decade of Change: Nashville grew into a beacon for West Coast tech companies. Then Covid came calling

Pemo Theodore

October 2, 2020

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In July 2019, Gov. Bill Lee took to Twitter to tell the world he was “California Dreamin’.”

Two companies, Pilot.com and Mitsubishi Motors North America, had just announced they were moving operations to Middle Tennessee, and they weren’t exactly trendsetters.

Approximately 4,100 jobs have been announced by California-based companies as either relocating to or being created in the Nashville area since 2015, according to Nashville Business Journal research. A large portion of those jobs has been created by at least 15 tech companies that now have all or a chunk of their operations in Nashville, such as Lyft, Eventbrite, Postmates, Stache and KeepTruckin. The new arrivals have added fuel to Nashville’s blazing growth and helped jolt its tech industry. (A little company called Amazon helped, too.) Read more via BizJournals

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Pemo Theodore

Pemo Theodore is a Media Publisher and a great people connector. She was Founder Silicon Valley TV which has served the San Francisco Bay Area for 10 years! She has produced Silicon Valley Events for Investors & Startups for 10 years. Pemo loves to video interview venture capitalists & founders to engage the human behind the success stories.. She has been Executive Producer of FinTech Silicon Valley for 6 years, organizing twice monthly FinTech talks & panels in San Francisco & Palo Alto and audio podcasts. She believes in learning through a great discussion with experts in the domains. Pemo has a talent to bring the right people together and is an incredible networker. Pemo's events have been seen as supporting Venture Capitalists & Angels in sourcing great deal flow from startups who attend her events. Many founders have received funding through meeting investors at her events. Her favored medium is audio & visual media and she has built up a great body of work of videos of panels & interviews and podcasts in Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. She has lived & worked in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, London, Northern Ireland & Silicon Valley. Bio https://pemo.one

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