Making Montana the First Best Place How Entrepreneurship is Creating High-Paying Jobs , Founder RightNow Technologies

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2 Montana is 49th Nationally in Wages

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RightNow At A Glance

 Started in Bozeman 1997 in an extra bedroom  14 years of continuous revenue growth  Self-funded and cash flow positive from day one  1,100 employees worldwide with avg MT wage $86,000  Bozeman’s largest commercial employer  Montana’s only public technology company  $5 billion of economic value into Montana

5 Montana Quality of Life

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6 RightNow’s Success is Repeatable

RightNow's Bozeman Campus

 High Tech uniquely is able to raises wages statewide  Twenty five more RightNows would create: . 15,000 new high paying jobs in Montana . $120B+ of economic value created over 15 years (5x multiplier)

7 U.S. Earnings per Job, by Industry, 2012

$0 $20,000 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000

Natural Resources $96,757

Hi-Tech $94,933

Manufacturing $60,568

Construction $52,050

Transp. & Warehousing $48,609

Arts & Entertain. $33,346

Agriculture $28,730

Retail Trade $27,728

Tourism $18,019

8 Bootstrapping Montana Jobs

9 Education’s Impact on Wages and Unemployment

Annual Earnings Unemployment Rates $90,000 16.0% $80,000 14.0% $70,000 12.0% $60,000 10.0% $50,000 8.0% $40,000 6.0% $30,000 $20,000 4.0% $10,000 2.0% $0 0.0%

10 Education is Key to The Jobs of the Future

100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Under qualified RNT MT HS low income MT HS grads not MT CS grads relative applicants dropout rate proficient to jobs

11 We Need More Computer Science Majors

CodeMontana.Org Preparing Montana Youth for Great Jobs

12 Communities with CodeMontana.Org

13 K-12 Education: One Size Does Not Fit All

14 We can increase Montana Wages

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Q&A

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