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Austin Was Destined to Replace Silicon Valley. Then the Pandemic Hit

What the hottest boomtown off the coasts will look like on the other side

Adam Bluestein
Published in
19 min readJul 15, 2020

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Last summer, RigUp moved into a 24,000-foot, magazine-spread worthy office in the kind of location you’d expect for one of Austin’s most buzzed about venture-backed startups. The company — a hiring platform for energy-sector…

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Adam Bluestein
Marker

I write about business, science, and things that people do for fun. Work published in Fast Company, Inc., Men’s Journal, Proto, Marker. Vermonter by choice.