Executive Insights

Opportunity Austin is a leading regional economic development organization aimed at fostering job-creating investment across the Austin region. Our priorities include boosting economic diversification to proactively strengthen the economy, deepening the talent pool through development and attraction, and keeping the Austin region attractive to entrepreneurs, business leaders and site selectors. Since 2004, Opportunity Austin has helped bring more than 600,000 total jobs to the Austin region.

Austin Business Journal Market President and Publisher Abby Mellott interviews Gary Farmer, past chair for Opportunity Austin. Farmer discusses the economic diversification that Opportunity Austin has brought to the Central Texas region over the past 20 years. Looking forward, Farmer touches on how Austin will remain one of the fastest-growing and cities in the nation due to the immense talent and resources available.

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