Ryan Smith

Like you start looking at that and it's like, why?

And, you know, people can say to Utah and sell out too early when they get businesses.

But if you look at what's come out of here from this next phase of influencers and how the world works and, you know, everyone has a different tie to folks, the amount of people that come in and, you know, ski here and visit here.

I just saw pictures of Conor McDavid down at Southern Utah and the, like, yeah, like, like I saw that, like,

but it's crazy who comes through here yeah and it's like most time people vacation here but you know i don't think we've done a very good job over the last 30 years like branding ourselves yeah because you feel like a small market but you're not yeah oh there's like i i said this on day one with the mbas there's nothing that we have in common with a small market

You go to our airport, you can jump on a plane and go to Paris, go direct to Hong Kong or Seoul, Korea.

You can go to London.

Like that's not a small market.

You're not having to do connections, right?

You've got a tech ecosystem that is insane.

So if you come out here and get a job in tech and it doesn't work out, you can get five other jobs in tech.

Right.

Right.

What, what we get branded for is because, you know, we don't have the urban living and

that most people associate with a big market.

And that's because when you come to Utah, you actually kind of want to spread out.

But we're the fastest growing, youngest demographic in the country.

So what people also don't know is within Salt Lake City, within 90 miles, you've got 250,000 college kids that most come out here, want to stay here.

And so you always want to bet on youth.

If you take Stanford and Cal and Caltech out of Silicon Valley, you kind of don't have Silicon Valley.