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SXSW – The DC Business Scene

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🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

How has the center of government turned into a growing center of business and entrepreneurship? We stop by the WeDC House to talk with Keith Sellars, President & CEO of the Washington DC Economic Partnership, about the rising tech scene in the DC area. Plus, we talk about Amazon’s search for a 2nd headquarters and share a little something from Flasher.

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0:00.0

For Wednesday, March 14th, this is Market Foolery coming to you.

0:07.0

As you hear the Plains overhead coming from downtown Austin, Texas, we are here at South by Southwest.

0:12.8

And more specifically, we are at the We D.C. House,

0:15.9

and I am thrilled that the CEO and president of the D.C.

0:20.2

Economic Partnership, Mr. Keith Sellers, is here. Thank you so much for

0:23.9

being here. Thanks for having me Chris. Well actually I mean you're you're

0:27.4

here like 14 hours a day so I guess I should say thank you for letting me come

0:30.5

by the house and take some of your time because you're a busy man

0:34.8

here at the DC house. I'm happy to be here. So I was saying before we started

0:42.4

taping one of the biggest changes I've seen over the last just three years here at South by Southwest is a bigger and bigger presence from cities and I've lived in Washington, D.C. in the area for about 25 years and when I first moved here, it was a company town and the company was the United States government.

1:03.8

I mean it was a it was the center of politics that was it.

1:06.6

And it's been one of the most gratifying things for me as someone who's interested in business

1:10.1

to see Washington DC become more of a business center, more of a center from entrepreneurship.

1:16.0

What are some of the things that you, and we're going to talk about Amazon?

1:20.0

For anyone who's listening, is he going to ask him about?

1:23.2

Yes, of course I'm going to ask you about Amazon.

1:25.1

We'll get to that.

1:26.4

But one of the things I've noticed that you've been doing

1:30.6

with the economic partnership is really fostering entrepreneurship in

1:35.0

Washington DC. How has that ever been received because again for so long

1:42.1

Washington DC was a center of government and there are

1:46.6

depending on who you talk to some parts of government that are kind of

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