Year in Review: Building Houston’s tech ecosystem
In January 2018, Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) released its list of 20 finalist cities for its highly publicized second headquarters — and Houston didn’t make the cut. The snub was a wake-up call for many of Houston’s leaders — one of the nation’s premier technology firms essentially told the Bayou City that its technology and startup ecosystem just wasn’t good enough.
Amazon’s HQ2 snub in 2018 served as a rallying cry for city officials and technology stakeholders in Houston.…
