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By DANA RUBINSTEIN
11/01/16 05:27 AM EDT
Given the cool reception Airbnb has received in New York State, tech companies might want to consider relocating across the river.
That’s the argument advanced by the New Jersey Tech Council, a 20-year old industry group that will on Tuesday release an open letter to the “New York tech community” urging it to consider the Garden State.
“I would like to formally invite you to start, grow, and build your business in the Garden State,” writes NJ Tech Council president and CEO James Barrood in a letter that cites Mayor Bill de Blasio’s failed effort to temporarily cap Uber’s growth and Airbnb’s troubles in Albany as evidence of a tendency on the part of New York officials to “shield legacy industries from the disruptive forces of technology.”
