New York adds 245 vendors, closes on California, and Texas passes Florida for third

The state rankings moved in the index's first week. New York grew 163.3% against California's 68.8%, cutting the gap between the two largest supply markets from 158 listings to 125, and Texas overtook Florida for third place.

The Wall's launch-day geography briefing put California first with 308 listings, New York second with 150, and Florida third with 124, just ahead of Texas at 120. The August 9 index snapshot keeps California on top but rearranges everything under it. New York added 245 listings, the largest absolute gain of any state and a 163.3% increase, more than triple the 51.4% growth of the index as a whole. California added 212 for 68.8% growth. The gap between the two narrowed from 158 listings to 125.

Third place changed hands. Texas grew 76.7% to 212 listings, Florida grew 62.9% to 202, and the 4-listing deficit Texas carried at launch became a 10-listing lead. Ninth place changed hands as well: Washington grew 89.2%, the fastest rate in the launch-era top fifteen, and moved past Pennsylvania.

How the top fifteen states moved between August 3 and August 9

State	Aug 3	Aug 9	Added	Growth
California	308	520	+212	68.8%
New York	150	395	+245	163.3%
Texas	120	212	+92	76.7%
Florida	124	202	+78	62.9%
Illinois	104	158	+54	51.9%
Colorado	71	112	+41	57.7%
Massachusetts	58	104	+46	79.3%
Georgia	56	75	+19	33.9%
Washington	37	70	+33	89.2%
Pennsylvania	46	62	+16	34.8%
Ohio	37	57	+20	54.1%
North Carolina	30	52	+22	73.3%
Virginia	36	44	+8	22.2%
Arizona	29	36	+7	24.1%
New Jersey	26	31	+5	19.2%

Concentration went up, not down

Adding 1,174 listings in six days did not spread the map out. The five largest states held 806 listings at launch, 35.3% of the 2,286-listing index. They now hold 1,487, or 43.0% of the 3,460-listing snapshot. Six of the fifteen states above beat the index-wide growth rate of 51.4%, and five of those six were already in the top ten. The states that lagged sit in the middle of the table: New Jersey at 19.2%, Virginia at 22.2%, Arizona at 24.1%, Georgia at 33.9%, and Pennsylvania at 34.8%.

Two sourcing notes. Growth figures compare the launch index published August 3 against the snapshot captured August 9. Of the 3,460 snapshot listings, 2,761 carry a headquarters state and 699 do not, so state counts are a floor rather than a full census. The thin end of the same map, including the four states that were blank at launch, is covered in the blank-states briefing, and the full expansion sits in the first-week growth briefing.

What it changes for a buyer

Almost nothing about who a company can hire, and quite a lot about where the deepest benches sit. Nearly every firm in the index sells nationally, so headquarters is a supply-side fact rather than a service-area limit. What the reshuffle does say is that a buyer building a shortlist around New York, Texas, Washington, or Massachusetts talent now has meaningfully more to compare than three weeks ago, and a buyer filtering to an in-state vendor in a slower-growing state is cutting an already small pool for no operational reason.