Why did this Boston entrepreneur discovered his biotech startup in California?

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — By all rights, Felix Wong and his firm ought to be in Massachusetts.

Wong, 33, was born in Quincy, graduated from Braintree Excessive College, and spent a decade dwelling in Cambridge, the place he earned two levels from Harvard and labored as a post-doc at MIT. His mother and father nonetheless stay in Massachusetts, and he now leads a startup in biotech, an trade Boston has owned for the higher a part of twenty years.

However on a current Wednesday, Wong was in sunny Silicon Valley, strolling within the shade of the jacaranda timber close to the mountaineering path exterior his workplace and reflecting on the artistic spirit of California.