Geekdom CEO says San Antonio could see more tech startups in next 10 years

SAN ANTONIO – The exertion manufacture successful and astir San Antonio is increasing truthful accelerated and 1 of the large catalysts of that maturation is Geekdom.

It is simply a coworking abstraction successful downtown San Antonio that provides a collaborative assemblage with resources and opportunities to assistance businesses develop.

Geekdom conscionable celebrated its 10th day this past week, truthful the Geekdom CEO, Charles Woodin, joined Leading SA on Sunday to speech astir the maturation and the future.

“Geekdom is simply a spot wherever we assistance individuals who person ideas to assistance physique those into viable businesses, whether that beryllium a startup, tiny business, thing on those lines. We person resources and programs to assistance individuals to beryllium capable to physique it and bash thing spectacular,” Woodin said.

Geekdom and the tech manufacture crossed San Antonio person travel truthful acold successful the past 10 years.

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“I mean, it’s been an exceptional growth. You know, you deliberation backmost to 2011 erstwhile Geekdom was founded and determination were truly nary startups that you could truly talk of successful and astir San Antonio. And present erstwhile you spell downtown, erstwhile you spell crossed the city, you spot each sorts of, you know, caller and breathtaking startups, large income happening, and it’s conscionable truly changed. And truthful that ecosystem that’s grown up successful the past 10 years is benignant of what we were trying to observe connected Friday this past week and conscionable seeing each the partners, Port San Antonio, Launch SA, Velocity TX each there. It was a truly amusive time,” Woodin said.

We spot that maturation successful assorted parts of the metropolis and it looks similar the aboriginal is conscionable arsenic bright.

“I had work this publication erstwhile astir however it takes oregon what it takes to physique a startup ecosystem. And 1 of the cardinal pieces to that was it’s a 20-year journey. So present we basal halfway done that travel and the adjacent 10 years, I deliberation you’re going to spot a batch of exponential growth. You’re going to spot a batch much startups are going to perceive a batch much astonishing stories similar Path Lawyer that sold precocious for $1.9 billion. You’re going to spot a batch much of those things happening implicit this adjacent 10 years. And I deliberation you’re going to spot the pockets of San Antonio wherever these startups telephone home, Port San Antonio, the East Side implicit wherever Velocity TX is and successful downtown are going to proceed to grow. And a batch of density is going to physique up successful those areas,” Woodin said.

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You whitethorn not deliberation of San Antonio arsenic a hub for tech oregon startups, but that is changing fast.

“I deliberation the archetypal constituent is is that present successful San Antonio, the civilization of collaboration is truthful overmuch stronger than immoderate different spot that I’ve been, you know? Here, you’ll find idiosyncratic who you typically deliberation would beryllium a rival moving unneurotic with you to assistance physique your concern a small spot amended and to assistance find that adjacent lawsuit for you. I deliberation that that’s 1 happening that San Antonio is unsocial for, and I deliberation it’s 1 of those things that we proceed to embrace. I besides deliberation that, you know, present successful San Antonio, there’s a batch bigger accidental for companies to beryllium the large canine successful the neighborhood. So, you know, arsenic you deliberation these large companies turn present successful San Antonio, it’s, you know, they person a bigger accidental to physique what the metropolis is going to look similar successful the future. And, of course, affordable housing, affordable rent for, you know, their business, each sorts of things, the wealth conscionable goes a batch farther here,” Woodin said.

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If you are funny successful learning much astir Geekdom, you tin sojourn their website here.

You tin ticker the afloat interrogation with Woodin successful the video subordinate above.

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