Visualizing SoCal’s Diversity Advantage
By Andy Wilson
Many of us know that SoCal has a diversity advantage through its breadth of people, industries, and technologies. I like to say that our diversity is our “regional superpower.” Our population is among the most diverse in the US in terms of breadth of ethnicities and origins — 67% non-white and 30% foreign-born. Though we are most often known to be the global center of media and entertainment, those who live here know that we are also a global center for trade, tourism, biotech & healthcare, aerospace, transportation, and sustainability. We lead in the production of talent with more than 1 million students in higher education (just behind Metro New York) and graduating the largest number of engineers in the country. So does our startup ecosystem share this same diversity? How does it compare to other US start-up hubs?
Read more of Andy’s post to see the ecosystem data + visualizations…
Andy Wilson is the Executive Director of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation. You can also find him on Linkedin and the Alliance website.
