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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>GoDaddy.com, a leading web site hosting company, is moving into the Seattle market in search of engineering talent, according to a report today from GeekWire's Todd Bishop. The company is leasing in Kirkland and plans to open its own office. Up to 30 people could be hired</p></h2>
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            <p>GoDaddy.com, a leading web site hosting company, is moving into the Seattle market in search of engineering talent, according to a report today <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2013/godaddy-coming-seattle-region-landing-key-engineers/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">from GeekWire's Todd Bishop</a>. The company is leasing in Kirkland and plans to open its own office. Up to 30 people could be hired within months. The report comes on the same day that the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/education/edlife/new-york-and-seattle-compete-for-data-science-crown.html?_r=0&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">compared the geek appeal</a> of New York City vs. Seattle. Bottom line: Lots of educational opportunity in both Seattle and NYC. NYC has Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new Applied Sciences Initiative, which brings a variety of college offerings together, but there is more opportunity for students to work with data on the West Coast. Plus, how can you keep 'em in the Big Apple once they've seen South Lake Union, the 520 floating bridge and the Microsoft Campus?</p>
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GoDaddy.com, a leading web site hosting company, is moving into the Seattle market in search of engineering talent, according to a report today from GeekWire's Todd Bishop. The company is leasing in Kirkland and plans to open its own office. Up to 30 people could be hired within months. The report comes on the same day that the New York Times compared the geek appeal of New York City vs. Seattle. Bottom line: Lots of educational opportunity in both Seattle and NYC. NYC has Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new Applied Sciences Initiative, which brings a variety of college offerings together, but there is more opportunity for students to work with data on the West Coast. Plus, how can you keep 'em in the Big Apple once they've seen South Lake Union, the 520 floating bridge and the Microsoft Campus?

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi