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By Thom Singer, CEO, Austin Technology Council On August 3, Apollo Global Management, one of the largest alternative asset managers on the planet with roughly $1.03 trillion under management, named Austin as the home of a new strategic growth hub focused on...
Austin Technology Council CEO Thom Singer recently joined Marc Cervantes, founder and CEO of Q-Branch, for a conversation on The Texas Embassy Podcast. The discussion explored leadership, networking, the evolution of Austin’s technology ecosystem, and the importance...
Many cities want to be "the next Austin." Cities send delegations here to tour our office parks and ask what's in the water. Wrong question. The water's fine, but that's not the secret. The secret is boring, and most cities don't want to hear it: Austin didn't become...
Every week, there are new signals about where Austin is headed. Some are loud. Some are subtle. Some show up in funding announcements, company relocations, campus expansions, university partnerships, or conversations happening quietly between founders, executives,...
For years, Austin was known as a hotbed of homegrown technology companies. Scrappy founders. Local investors. First-time CEOs. Entrepreneurs who built something from nothing, found their early customers, raised money, hired teams, and helped shape the future of this...
This week, Austin lost one of the people who built this tech community. The tragic passing of Josh Baer in a plane crash leaves a hole in the heart of our tech ecosystem. Josh spent 27 years pouring himself into Austin's startup scene. He came to town to join Trilogy,...
By Kim Brushaber (originally posted on Kim's LinkedIn blog) Eight Austin legacy legends, one new honoree, and the night Austin reminded me what "accomplished" actually looks like. When the Brain Goes Quiet There are events you attend to network. There are events you...
Be honest... do you know who these people are in this video? If you've built anything in Austin tech, you owe it to yourself to find out. These are the Austin Tech Hall of Fame inductees (so far.... the list will grow every year). These are people who built the...
Let's get the obvious objection out of the way first: yes, it's hot in the summer. (Number one reason people complain about Austin the first year they live here. Then they adapt. It is still hot, but resiliency is part of being an Austinite). If you are asking "Why...
Two very different conversations about artificial intelligence recently led to the same conclusion. The first was the April 2026 ATC Roundtable Breakfast, where Sridhar Sudarsan from EX Squared joined us for a fireside chat on "Navigating the Intersection of Human...
