By Joaquin Palomino in the San Francisco Chronicle

January 29, 2016

Despite being in the heart of Silicon Valley, Vasili Triant couldn’t keep his midsize cloud-computing company, LiveOps Cloud, staffed. Jobs would open, but not enough qualified applicants would apply. Those hired often wouldn’t last a year before being poached by bigger firms that promised higher salaries and more lavish perks.

In September, after more than a decade in the Bay Area, the company relocated its headquarters to a suburb of Austin, Texas — a move growing common among its peers.

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