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Also made a decision to leave the US (San Francisco) and miss it immensely. There's nothing comparable to bring surrounded by genuine techies, and the go big or
by 0xfaded 6y ago
Also made a decision to leave the US (San Francisco) and miss it immensely. There's nothing comparable to bring surrounded by genuine techies, and the go big or go home attitude is inspirational.
Yes, the politics is in shambles and society is arguably falling apart, but at some point you need to decide what your impact on the world is going to be. If you believe you can fix tech in Europe, I applaud you, and that would be a worthy cause. I've learned that I function best in the fast lane, and that's in the tech hubs. Innovation requires lots of people bouncing lots of ideas off each other, and I don't think remote work is going to significantly compete with where the next innovation wave will come from.
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- cvhashim 6y agoI think you’re being too hard on Europe. There are tons of smart people on the Continent working on unique and interesting startup ideas. The only thing Europeans may lack is access to funding and resources.
- 0xfaded 6y agoI think that's exactly it. There are smart people everywhere who want to work on interesting ideas. But they will naturally congregate where the opportunity and resources exist and the bureaucracy doesn't. Fixing Europe isn't about finding smart people to work on things. It's about preventing them from leaving. Ironically Covid might be helping that for a couple years.
- 908B64B197 6y ago>The only thing Europeans may lack is access to funding and resources I've met a lot of European founders... in the Bay Area. The stories they told me were eye opening. There's so much regulation and red tape that one company's 5th employee had to be filling government grants and filing for tax exemptions full time.