Lyft Corporate Offices Coming to Nashville

Lyft Corporate Offices Coming to Nashville

For years, Nashville’s tech and venture capital leaders clamored for more connections to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area: Be it a nonstop flight or outpost offices, building relationships with the tech world’s home base was considered critical to solidifying Nashville fledgling tech scene.
Now, with news that ride sharing startup Lyft will bring hundreds of jobs to Music City, those relationships are stronger — and more plentiful — than ever.

In the past two years, Nashville has gotten not only that nonstop flight ( to Oakland, not San Francisco, but close enough), but also a satellite office for San Fran-based Eventbrite and, of course, growing interest from Mountain View-based Google in the form of Google Fiber high-powered Internet.

“I think at a high level what this tells me is we continue to open up the pathway between Nashville and the West Coast,” Stuart McWhorter, CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, said of the Lyft announcement. (continue reading at Nashville Business Journal)

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