The rest of the Internet is too slow for Google Fiber

Google Fiber is bait. Every region around the world that wants to try to create its own Silicon Valley has several challenges. Few regions are as well-established, financially well-off, full of success stories as northern California is. But the hope is that this corner of “Silicon Prairie” can set things ablaze—although for now, there have yet to be any real breakout success stories in Kansas City’s tech sector.

“I think fiber kicked it off and gave that underground community some national attention,” Andrew Evans added. “It is giving people like Mike [Demarais] and me a reason to come out here and it’s giving people like Ben Barreth a really good selling point to say that this isn’t just any startup community. This isn’t Silicon Alley or downtown Chicago, this is KC. We have Google fiber.”