The Silicon South Is Rising
When Scott Millwood was growing up and going to college near Greenville, South Carolina, he says, “I didn’t see it as a place where I’d want to live.” With the textile industry moving its mills to Asia, “the city faced a really tough transition.” Millwood remembers the grand old Poinsett Hotel, erected in 1925, sitting vacant downtown. “There were no windows, and homeless people were burning trash-can fires in the fourth-floor ballroom.”
Today, Scott is the chair of Next, a networking and mentoring organization for Greenville entrepreneurs, and the
