Just because some of Ann Arbor's young talent leaves doesn't mean it doesn't come back and create jobs.
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HookLogic opened its new Ann Arbor office with three people about a year ago. Today that office employs 13 people and a few interns and expects to hire another 2-5 people this year.
That shouldn't cause too much of a surprise. Most of the New York-based firm got its start at a few software development firms in Ann Arbor at the height of the tech bubble about a decade ago. After the tech bubble burst those people moved to New York and started HookLogic before coming back to drink from the Ann Arbor talent pool.
"There is a lot of great talent in this city," says Gary Evans, general manager of HookLogic's Ann Arbor office. "We can get it a lot more reasonably priced here than we can in Manhattan."
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