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Strava expands to Denver, led by hiring tax incentives

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Strava has just opened an expansion office in Denver, Colorado this week (with several job openings available). The fitness tracking social network’s success continues – as does our inexhaustible craving for more KOMs. So Strava needed more space to grow. With some of the best access to outdoor recreation of any US city, Denver seemed a logical choice, and came with tax incentives…

Strava opens new Denver office, and is hiring

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Strava already had more than 140 employees spread across their original San Francisco, CA headquarters and offices in Hanover, NH & Bristol, UK. Now starting with 15 staff in Denver, this marks their third US location. Apparently the Colorado Front Range is starting to become known as Silicon Mountain to pair with California’s Silicon Valley. With a wealth of high-tech industry professional talent and one of the world’s most active cities, Denver gives Strava and its new employees access to running, cycling, mountain biking, skiing, paddling & climbing all out of their new backyard.

Oh, and it doesn’t hurt that the state is giving Strava a big tax break. According to The Denver Post, the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade will hand Strava a $2.3 million tax credit if over the next eight years the tech company adds 89 full-time jobs averaging >$100,000 a year at the Denver office. Strava thinks they’ll hit that hiring target more quickly, planning for 90-100 CO employees within three years.

They are hiring now, too. While most of the current job openings are still at the San Fran HQ, more & more are expected in Denver.

Colorado & Strava Metro

 

Colorado, and Denver specifically, already have a huge Strava athlete base, so now they will get Strava professionals as well. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is also one of the hundreds of organizations that uses Strava Metro collected data to improve urban cycling & active lifestyle networks. Strava & CDOT have so far worked with 70+ Colorado municipalities, agencies & conservation organizations to share this collected data to improve active transit at the local level. And that will certainly continue from the new base.

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fitness
fitness
6 years ago

Maybe they can find a way to let us sort out all the fake Zwift rides from our feed?

Matthew M Ayres
Matthew M Ayres
6 years ago

Whoa, look at all the white people.

Kernel Flickitov
Kernel Flickitov
6 years ago

Except for the dozen or so Asians, a couple Indian. Is passive aggressive race baiting a thing on BR now?

it'sAARON
it'sAARON
6 years ago

The Kernel beat me to it. Dial it back Matthew. You’re wrong.

Jon
Jon
6 years ago

Please bring more tech companies out of SF Bay. Please. Please. Please.

Tom
Tom
6 years ago

Dayum, 90 jobs at over $90k is nothing to sneeze at.

Maybe I’ll sign up for Strava, after all!

Miles
Miles
6 years ago

Maybe they can find a way to let you change your current FTP without effecting your historical training data. Just because your FTP went up/down doesn’t mean a ride from a year ago was any easier/harder. Seems like a simple thing, but has eluded them thus far.

David
David
6 years ago

Now start your own mapping division! I was stoked when they switched to Mapbox / OpenStreetMap since I could see new roads almost immediately. But Mapbox is now very out of date since they stopped applying OSM edits about 5 months ago.

Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot
6 years ago

They really need to invest in server capacity and actual product development. I cancelled premium months ago and haven’t looked back. The app functions extremely slowly and provides very little data which is hard to break down, groups/group ride function is not stable. In comparison; the Training Peaks app is a joy to use, fast, powerful, and yet easy to break down data on a fly and asses a workout. Step it up Strava.

Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot
6 years ago

Assess! Sorry autocorrect

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