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# Meet the Startup: A conversation with Portland Mayor Sam Adams (Part 1)

Every day the City of Portland is hustling to make the business environment here more hospitable to those people who are looking to live and work here. And trying to make it a great place for startups. In that way, Portland is a bit of a startup itself. Trying to build something new—and reinventing the way it does things—to speak to a new target market.

Well, if Portland is a startup, then the guy at the helm of that startup is [Portland Mayor Sam Adams](http://twitter.com/mayorsamadams "Portland Mayor Sam Adams"). So it seems only appropriate that Meet the Startup spend a few minutes chatting with him.

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That’s part 1. Stay tuned next week for part 2.

And to stay up to date on all of the interviews, follow @MeettheStartup on Twitter.