Great NY Times history lesson of how NYC became a tech town post financial crisis with some great stories on Tim Armstrong, Mike Bloomberg and Kevin Ryan.
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It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town
In the late summer of 2000, Timothy Armstrong, at 29, qualified as an internet veteran. Mr. Armstrong helped create or became a senior manager at a string of ventures, and had a solid track record in internet sales and marketing when he met with Omid Kordestani, head of sales at Google. The company was looking to expand, and Mr. Kordestani arranged a meeting between Mr. Armstrong and its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in Silicon Valley.
