Scotts Valley tech startup forecasts skyrocketing growth

"Urdahl, 48, who recently served a controversial term as mayor in the upscale Austin suburb of West Lake Hills...."

and? what? he shot the police chief? danced naked at the city employees xmas party? or what? do editors take the weekend off around here?

Editors? What's that?

jojo wrote:

"Urdahl, 48, who recently served a controversial term as mayor in the upscale Austin suburb of West Lake Hills...."
and? what? he shot the police chief? danced naked at the city employees xmas party? or what? do editors take the weekend off around here?

Google him in Austin. Sounds like a fraud.

"We were educating our customers what they were paying for," said Len Rosenthal, vice president of marketing.

...and they just went right along with it... Wait. What?

""This tiny little company in Scotts Valley will actually turn out to be pretty cool," said Jim Davidson, co-chief executive officer of Silver Lake Partners, a Menlo Park equity investment firm that backed the deal to create the company."

Silver Lake is the outfit that bought Seagate and moved the company "headquarters" to a lockbox in a tax-free haven in the Caribbean, to avoid all taxes. Under Silver Lake, Seagate has happily continued to move jobs out of the area and overseas.

I'm glad for this outfit's success. Just... dont' expect a whole lot of benefit to spill over into the immediate area. Past a certain point, they'll be expanding... elsewhere.

Hint: They're approximately fifteen years too late. The train already left the station quite awhile ago.
A story like this would have made sense circa 1996 give or take.