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When healthcare startup ZocDoc, as
part of its expansion plans, decided to
open an office out West - potentially
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creating up to 650 new jobs - one state
ended up topping the company's list:
Arizona. "We did an assessment of all the various markets that we could
expand into that were Mountain and Pacific time zones," says ZocDoc CEO
Cyrus Massoumi, "and the Phoenix-Scottsdale area came out head-over-heels
above everything else."
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Nearly seven years ago, Massoumi and two colleagues founded ZocDoc as an
easier way to help people find doctors who accepted their insurance. Patients
could book appointments online or on their mobile phones. The three-person
operation, initially run out of an apartment in lower Manhattan, now has over
500 employees in New York, India, and, most recently, Scottsdale. "We've
grown from being in just one city to now being in 2,000 cities and towns
across the United States," says Massoumi. "There are over 5 million patients a
month who come to find in-network doctors, read verified reviews and health
content, and instantly book appointments online."
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By simplifying the process of scheduling medical appointments, ZocDoc was
filling a basic healthcare need. The concept quickly caught on with the public.
Faced with a growing staff and an increasingly crowded New York office,
Massoumi felt it was time to look for more space. He knew ZocDoc needed a
West Coast location so it could operate at different hours from its New York
headquarters. Massoumi had visited Arizona for work prior to founding
ZocDoc, so the state stood out to him as having a vibrant and high-tech talent
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ZocDoc opened its Scottsdale offices in March 2013. It wasn't the only fastgrowing company to have taken advantage of the state's emerging tech
community: Yelp, CareerBuilder, and GoDaddy had also planted flags in the
Grand Canyon state. Compared to cities like San Francisco and New York,
Arizona's budding tech industry provides many businesses with a competitive
edge. "There are some advantages to not being in a place where everyone else
is doing the exact same thing," says Massoumi. "You can differentiate yourself
and really stand out."
That's not to say that Arizona's tech scene isn't already thriving and robust.
Arizona was recently ranked No. 1 in the country for entrepreneurial activity,
and in 2012, TechAmerica Foundation reported that tech companies
employed 55 out of every 1,000 private-sector employees in Arizona. For
Massoumi, the state reminds him in a lot of ways of New York City's rise to
tech fame. "When we started in New York back in 2007, people weren't talking
about New York being a tech hub," he says. "Now everyone sees New York as
the second hub of technology innovation right after Silicon Valley. We expect
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