Hi Gavin Newsom, I have a present for you -Tesla's Elon Musk ditches California for Texas. And last week it was Hewlett-Packard. Ouch!! Elon Musk, the inventor, investor and capitalist, has called it quits on California, his home for the past 25 years. He’s gone to Texas. As reported by FOX Business on Tuesday, "For myself, yes, I have moved to Texas," Musk told Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray at a CEO Council Summit. "We've got the Starship development here in South Texas where I am right now. We're hopefully going to do a launch later today. And then we've got big factory developments just outside of Austin for Giga Texas as well." With Tesla’s soaring stock price, Musk has become America’s (and the world's), second-richest person. https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/tesla-elon-musk-california-texas The company that literally started Silicon Valley is moving to Texas Hewlett-Packard traces its origins to 1938, when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard rented a garage in Palo Alto, California. Now, HP Enterprises, a descendant of the pioneering company, is moving to Texas. The company announced its move Tuesday. Houston is currently Hewlett-Packard Enterprises' largest US employment hub, and the company is constructing a new campus in the city. HPE will also consolidate a number of its Bay Area sites to its San Jose campus. The move won't result in any layoffs. HPE's (HPE) move to Texas is hardly a new concept in the tech world. It's the largest — but just the latest — tech company to make the trip south: SignEasy, QuestionPro and DZS (formerly known as Dasan Zhone Solutions) also moved from California to Texas. Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened in May to move the company's headquarters from Fremont, California, which is just across the bay from Palo Alto, to Texas or Nevada, because of his displeasure with California's stay-at-home orders. While he did not follow through with that, the company did announce in July that it would build its new auto plant in a suburb of Austin. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/tech/silicon-valley-hpe-to-texas/index.html