Salesforce HQ 2 Seattle?
Seattle Times: Tableau deal affirms Seattle’s business-climate strength and challenges. https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/tableau-deal-affirms-seattles-business-climate-strength-and-challenges/ Salesforce, the San Francisco business-software titan that bought Tableau on Monday, is pledging to grow the Fremont data-visualization company and Salesforce’s existing Seattle team into a second headquarters. It will start with around 3,000 employees in Seattle and a strong philanthropic tradition at both Salesforce and Tableau.
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I have been working at my desk in Tableau's new Kirkland Urban office, along with a bunch of other folks, for the last couple of weeks or so. Really nice.
So is Seattle officially HQ2 for Salesforce?
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) already has around 1,000 employees in Washington state and a Bellevue office less than five miles from Tableau’s planned Kirkland office. Benioff said he has hoped to expand in the region for a while, and he plans to grow Salesforce and Tableau Seattle-area presence.
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle): Tableau's HQ, leadership will remain in Seattle after $15.7B acquisition by Salesforce. https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2019/06/10/tableaus-hq-and-leadership-will-remain-in-seattle.html
Tableau plans to open its new 100,000-square-foot office in the Kirkland Urban development this summer. Tableau just moved its headquarters last year when it expanded into a 110,000-square-foot building in Fremont near its former headquarters. Tableau had 4,286 employees worldwide at the end of March, up from 3,663 a year prior. In 2018, Tableau had 2,130 employees in Washington, with a large majority in the Puget Sound region.