With the departure of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the city’s tech industry loses its most powerful public persona. Replacing him is Bill de Blasio, the former city public advocate who campaigned with a platform that appealed to the everyman, and someone Silicon Alley has greeted with cautious optimism.
The new mayor has a robust tech sector plan on paper—one with a big focus on building more of a pipeline between local universities and startup jobs—and he’s become something of a crusader for broadband throughout the big apple. But unlike his predecessor, he is unlikely to put the growth of New York City’s tech scene at the top of his priority list. He’s also expressed some concern over how to regulate companies such as Uber, the taxi-finding app, that disrupt traditional businesses in the city, and he seems unlikely to fill the role of chief digital officer, a position Bloomberg created partly to liaison between Silicon Alley and the government. Read more…
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