<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>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></item><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>toomanybeersies</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve heard it called Silicon Prairie, which it was called way back in the 70&amp;#x27;s and 80&amp;#x27;s. It does make sense though, since Texas Instruments and various computer companies were based there, which is the same reason Silicon Valley got its name.&lt;p&gt;If anything, Austin is more deserving of the &amp;quot;Silicon X&amp;quot; moniker than the Bay Area, as TI invented the silicon transistor and the integrated circuit.</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>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></item><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>retr0grad3</author><text>Silicon Hills actually refers to the boom in chip manufacturing in ATX in the 80s and 90s. After the dot-can boom and bust it now has the “like Silicon Valley but ‘weirder’” connotation.</text></comment>