<story><title>Hype and plunder: Domo a new low for self-indulgent IPOs</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-domo-ipo-20180604-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpark</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Domo actually is part of the Salt Lake City region’s “Silicon Slope,” one of several regional offshoots of Silicon Valley.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Going off on a tangent, this is really dumb. It’s not an “offshoot” of Silicon Valley. It’s a distant, unrelated region that happens to also have a tech industry. Are Austin, Seattle, and Portland also “offshoots” of Silicon Valley? How about New York? Zurich?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tntn</author><text>Right on. &amp;quot;Silicon Slopes&amp;quot; is surprisingly effective attempt by Utah County people to get investors to dump money there.&lt;p&gt;Quick summary of the companies in &amp;quot;Silicon Slopes&amp;quot;: Qualtrics (surveys), Domo (vapor), Adobe, Micron (fab only, but claim to &amp;quot;silicon&amp;quot; in the name), Nu Skin (MLM cosmetics&amp;#x2F;diet supplements) , doterra (essential oil MLM), NatureSunshine (MLM).&lt;p&gt;Great place to be. Lots of innovation in MLMs.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hype and plunder: Domo a new low for self-indulgent IPOs</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-domo-ipo-20180604-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpark</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Domo actually is part of the Salt Lake City region’s “Silicon Slope,” one of several regional offshoots of Silicon Valley.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Going off on a tangent, this is really dumb. It’s not an “offshoot” of Silicon Valley. It’s a distant, unrelated region that happens to also have a tech industry. Are Austin, Seattle, and Portland also “offshoots” of Silicon Valley? How about New York? Zurich?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm90</author><text>Its a lazy way to jump on the SV bandwagon. So Austin is&amp;#x2F;was known as Silicon Hills or something and there are many other Silicon Something monikers for other places.</text></comment>