Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman

These ties will likely get even closer if the cities are connected via additional transportation links like high-speed rail or Elon’s proposed Hyperloop, or with the advent of self-driving cars, all of which would make travel and commuting between these cities and Silicon Valley faster and cheaper. Thus, LA and Seattle are becoming increasingly fertile grounds for entrepreneurship, and good places to set up a company that you are planning on blitzscaling. It will be interesting to see if Amazon’s HQ2 project to set up a second headquarters (Amazon intends to spend $5 billion to construct a new corporate campus that will accommodate fifty thousand employees) ends up expanding “Greater Silicon Valley” even further (and farther). Moody’s picked Austin as the most likely city to be chosen, while the New York Times believed Denver to have a good chance. Either would be a logical expansion point, given the long-standing pattern of migration from Silicon Valley to Colorado, and the “nerd bird” flights that Southwest operates between San Jose and Austin.