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Sounds like he is trying to build Silicon Valley in Vegas.

Reminds me of this PG essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html

Or this one: http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

Well, warm weather, no state income tax, cheaper real estate but still close to CA... if only it wasnt Vegas. :>

As a current resident of Vegas, "warm" might be understating summer temperatures a little :) Everything is air conditioned (and there are 24 hour air conditioning maintenance companies!) so you'll be inside most of the time.

One things they're missing is a major university. Not sure that would ever work in Vegas.

UNLV is pretty big.

I suspect he meant "major" in terms of research and reputation more than size. Something to play the same role as Stanford/Berkeley in the Bay Area or MIT/Harvard in Boston.

UNLV's major programs, iirc, are hospitality. Lack of tech talent might be a bit frustrating, though it's not exactly the middle of nowhere.

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