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• coldtea 11y ago
  Take what PG writes with a grain of salt. He is one example that made it big, and he writes from that perspective. Far more people (99.99% of programmers in the USA) never made it big like that or will ever. Also he's talking about the next Facebook, Twitter, Groupon etc. You don't have to make that (and in all probability, you wont, it's statistics: divide the number of succesful startups like that by the number of programmers). You can still make a great startup (in Singapore, the USA or even anywhere else) and a decent fortune for yourself outside of the "Valley". Here's a succesful entrepreneur (and outside the Valley too), who sold his company in the USA and moved to Singapore. And even started some business there too (I think he left again now, after several years). Here's what he says: "It’s a great place to set up a business, which is important to me." https://sivers.org/singapore https://sivers.org/singapore https://sivers.org/sg14 https://sivers.org/sg14