For example, Todd Davis is the founder of LifeLock. A google search will tell you that Symantec famously acquired LifeLock for over $2.3 billion a few years ago.
Wikipedia will tell you that Todd won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Top Emerging Company for Orange County and Desert Cities in 2009. He was also awarded the CRM Magazine's Service Elite Award, The Arizona Business Leadership Association's Leadership Award and Arizona Business Journal's 25 Most Admired CEOs in 2009
BUT what none of this will tell you is how he faced death, sat on the cliff's edge, not sure if the company would exist the following month during the infamous rollercoaster journey of startup life.
So I wanted to tell that story and also hear about the thriving tech scene here in Phoenix and why businesses are setting up camp in the Grand Canyon state.