After a journey that started at 3 am, or maybe it started decades ago, I arrived this evening at 6pm at my destination. I am too exhausted at this point to process it all. It is a mixture of excitement, lightness, a hollow feeling, decompressing, adventure, and some small bits of trepidation.

Recently, there’s been discussion by some who challenge Austin’s position as a great place to build a company. They couldn’t be more wrong. Ever since I moved to Austin over 2 years ago, I’ve been both surprised and impressed by quality and scale of the startup ecosystem (entrepreneurs, angels, vcs…