Talent possibilities draw Amazon operations center to Nashville

hen Wonolo, an on-demand staffing platform, planned to open a second headquarters, they looked at about 40 different metro regions. They landed in Nashville, Tennessee, and opened their second office (the first is in San Francisco) last quarter. So when Amazon announced they were opening an Operations Center of Excellence in downtown Nashville too, co-founder and CEO Yong Kim wasn't all that surprised. "When we were assessing which market to be in, we had two other competing markets. We could go either way, but when we flew out to Nashville just to get the feel for what the city was like, what the vibe was like, we absolutely fell in love," Kim told Supply Chain Dive. Of course falling in love wasn't just the only reason that Wonolo decided to open up their second headquarters in Music City or why Amazon is opening a new facility there.