A Case for Turning Tulsa Into the Next Big Tech Hub | WIRED

Requirements OK will never meet:

  • Better politics. Techies are largely for individual rights. The Midwest largely isn’t.
  • Better worker protections. Great tech jobs aren’t usually in right to work states.
  • Employees own their ideas. In CA, for example, you can launch your own startup while still working for someone else. In the places in the Midwest I’ve lived, your employer generally owns things you create while working for them.

If you don’t build those, they won’t come.