I did business in PDX for a number of years... while I love the city, the startup / tech scene there was absolute fubar. It was fake it until you make it taken to an extreme. Weirdly insular, cliquish...so many snake oil salespeople. Couldn't find any actual hirable talent at any price. Some of the weirdest encounters of my career, where you looked at all of these "companies," Treehouse included, and knew they just didn't pass the smell test. Everything in that whole town was like a cult of personality.