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Peter Rex promises to make Austin the center of the tech universe. Can he pull it off?

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Peter Rex promises to make Austin the center of the tech universe. Can he pull it off?

Peter Rex brought a company with $1 billion in assets and a proud aversion to Big Tech to Austin. Now he thinks the Texas capital can supplant Silicon Valley as the world’s preeminent tech hub. “I want to be an outsider to Big Tech,” he said. “You can’t disrupt from the inside anyways.” Learn about the company’s real estate moves and other plans in this story.