Silicon Valley Is Betting On...Rural America (Garlinghouse)

[NightJanitor]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/12/09/silicon-valley-microsoft-linkedin-rural-america-iowa-tech-workers-jobs-workforce-careers-investment/2258246002/

Excerpt:

Silicon Valley leaders are joining Pillar Technology's initiative to help provide intensive training for students in Jefferson, Iowa, a town of 4,200. Participants could land tech jobs paying $65,000. [...]  Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, LinkedIn co-founder Allen Blue, venture capitalist Greg Sands, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and others spent Saturday in rural Iowa learning about Pillar Technology's initiative to provide intensive training for students who could then land high-paying tech jobs at the company's office in Jefferson, a town of 4,200.