REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — By all rights, Felix Wong and his company should be in Massachusetts.
Wong, 33, was born in Quincy, graduated from Braintree High School, and spent a decade living in Cambridge, where he earned two degrees from Harvard and worked as a post-doc at MIT. His parents still live in Massachusetts, and he now leads a startup in biotech, an industry Boston has owned for the better part of two decades.
But on a recent Wednesday, Wong was in sunny Silicon Valley, walking in the shade of the jacaranda trees near the hiking trail outside his office and reflecting on the** **creative spirit of California.
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