These 11 companies have left California over the years
Tesla
Like some of his fellow tech CEOs, Elon Musk grew frustrated with the limitations of the Bay area before Tesla left for Austin in 2021.
"There's a limit to how big you can scale in the Bay Area," Musk said at the time.
Before the move, Musk had also clashed with officials over keeping Tesla's Fremont, California, factory open despite COVID-19 orders.
CBRE
Global real estate company CBRE monitors the number of companies leaving California. The firm itself left Los Angeles in 2020.
"Designating Dallas as CBRE's global corporate headquarters formalizes how our company has been operating for the past eight years," Lew Horne, head of operations in the Southwest, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times in 2020.
FICO
Financial data analytics firm FICO, officially known as the Fair Isaac Corporation, quietly moved to Bozeman, Montana, sometime in 2021.
The company, best known for its FICO score, previously moved its corporate headquarters from Minneapolis to San Jose in 2013.
It's not entirely clear why FICO left California.
