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I think FAANG-type is defined a bit further down, he's talking about companies that have enough power and/or hype that they drive real estate demand in their surrounding areas.

>“The Netflix, Google and Amazons of the world are not going to their service providers,” he said. “Their service providers are going to them.”

It all seems pretty meaningless though. This is just a PR piece for CBRE, not any sort of journalism.

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You can add Boeing and Seattle to that list.

Eh, Boeing has huge scale, but they havw a worse version of Amazon's recruiting problem. Terrible work environment for most employees (unless you like knuckledragger drivel), poor quality work by other teams being swept under the rug by managers, and large relocation/sign on bonuses being dangled in front of potential employees for year long commitments post-move.

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