How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah
Good article for the most part. I was amazed when I moved here from Santa Monica a.k.a. Silicon Beach at how much startup and VC activity there is. Even down in Provo which I&#x27;d probably call the southern terminus of Silicon Slopes I overheard VC pitches at the next table in the restaurants every day at lunch. There is a lot of hustle and prosperity going on out here. Provo is also a very Mormon town in a Mormon state, containing BYU and also their missionary training center. Despite that I haven&#x27;t found the cultural shift too jarring, though I will say the liquor selection in the state-run stores is a little lacking. Overall it seems like a very healthy and industrious community and I don&#x27;t doubt it will continue to grow as the previous centers of tech innovation in America start to run into some very hard limits in terms of housing, cost of living, density of young well-educated workers, and overall lifestyle quality.