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The French have a shot at this, if there is political will in Paris. Closest thing to SV in France is Toulouse: a major university; defense and related tech ind
by eternalban 6y ago
The French have a shot at this, if there is political will in Paris. Closest thing to SV in France is Toulouse: a major university; defense and related tech industries; lots of competent world class engineers; and an attractive locale.
- jakub_g 6y agoAlso Sophia Antipolis [1] used to be described as "European SV" but mostly in historical + quality of life contexts. The biggest employer being fat and slow corporate-y Amadeus, it's nowhere near to the startup scene of real SV. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Antipolis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Antipolis
- AlexTDS1 6y agoAs someone that studied and lives in Toulouse this I disagree. We have good universities, but the best one is in economics. The whole city works around Airbus. When they aren't doing well the whole city is doing terribly. Most software engineers here work for subcontracting companies that are heavily linked to the aerospace business. Finding different lines of work recently have been really hard due to those subcontracting companies looking for new contracts outside of the space. Unless there's a solid political decision to implement more research facilities outside of the aerospace industry then other companies will start coming. But for now compared to places in the region such as Montpellier I find we're really behind other cities.