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Agreed that it is unfortunate we could not have this experiment, but perhaps Waterfront Toronto can go back to the drawing board and do the experiment with loca
by etimberg 6y ago
Agreed that it is unfortunate we could not have this experiment, but perhaps Waterfront Toronto can go back to the drawing board and do the experiment with local companies and homegrown technology.
- jayparth 6y agoI would doubt that any company would take such a bet now. If not Google, then why would, say, Shopify stand a better chance? I'm an entrepreneur from Toronto and I won't bet the next three years on my life on a municipal government that has shown a bias against action again and again. Not even sure that data privacy killed this project. It was probably the bias against action that plagues every branch of government nowadays.
- wendyshu 6y agoIndeed, quite sad. This risk aversion, or maybe inability to weigh benefits against costs, is the stagnation Thiel is always talking about.