Seluga Sekanwagi wasn’t looking for jobs in Brooklyn.

Why would he? Sekanwagi was living a happy post-grad life in Houston, Texas, working at a design architecture firm in the healthcare sector. He was flirting with the idea of moving to Austin, Texas, because of their booming tech startup industry, but when he was looking for jobs as a UX designer, he noticed a lot of companies there weren’t looking to hire people.

All it took was a Google search for him to stumble upon a Brooklyn Heights-based company called App Partner that was hiring a UX designer, and Sekanwagi took a shot in the dark, packed his bags, and moved to a city he had only been to once before — on a high school trip in 2007.

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