Seattle invested in trend-based tech innovation growth, disrupting industrial past

Seattle has been a very successful growth story. Seattle overcame concerns about its weather, earthquakes and long commutes by eschewing its industrial past investments in logging, paper, international trade and airplane manufacturing and investing in tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon. Its strategy to overcome its industrial roots by investing in emerging digital information economy companies allowed Seattle to disrupt the attraction of Northern California for tech companies and make itself an innovation hotbed for economic growth and entrepreneurial value creation.