Wes Moore

We're the home of US Cyber Command.

We're the home of the United States Naval Academy, of Johns Hopkins University, of NIST, of the only pure play public company in quantum, which is IonQ, where literally we are the capital of quantum.

And so you have to also create the ecosystem that makes businesses want to come, that makes businesses want to grow and thrive.

And so that's the thing I think you have to be able to do, that yes, it's about tax policy and making it more attractive for businesses.

And by the way,

We're now seeing how Maryland's population is the fastest-growing population we've had in Maryland in over a decade.

And so you both have— Your net migration isn't impressive.

Agreed.

But if you look at the population growth that we've had over the past decade, net migration has actually been a challenge in Maryland that we've had for a very long period of time.

But we're now actually starting to see a population growth.

So I'm up for re-election this November.

I was still in the military, exactly.

So, I mean, cost of living is still very much an issue for a lot of places.

Now, you know, if you actually took a look and you started looking at things like education levels, if you started looking at things like, you know, the attractiveness for corporations to be able to select different places,

I think you would actually see more of a flip.

You would see where a lot of those states are at the bottom of that actually have some of the best when it comes to health care, best when it comes to education.

So I think there's a few things.

One is you've got to be focused on what is it that you are really good at.

And I think that's actually been part of the problem.

It's the same thing, and I think about it from a founder's perspective and from an entrepreneur's perspective, right?