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The governments spend 45% of GDP yearly. It's very likely that at some point, every company has served the public sector. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, I
by norwegianwhale 6y ago
The governments spend 45% of GDP yearly. It's very likely that at some point, every company has served the public sector.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM, list goes on, weren't envisaged by a 60 year old bureaucrat sitting in Brussels or Washington.
They were created by ambitious young men looking to shape the world in their own way.
- carlmr 6y ago>Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM IBM and Google both came almost directly from government money. Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix are arguably actual startups.
- kuschku 6y agoAlthough Microsoft really started as a subcontractor for IBM, which again shows the knock-on effects good government subsidies can have. Hadn't the DoD started SV, most of these companies wouldn't exist today.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoHad WW2 never happen or the US not be in such an advantageous geographical position away from the "trouble", SV might not exist today. The snowball/butterfly effect is real.
- sitkack 6y agoSV, Hollywood, the Aerospace-Defense Industry. All of it by purposeful accident. I feel like some in tech want to take responsibility, somehow that American's are just better tech-bros than anyone else. It was mostly chance. Call it what it is, a gift. And take care of it, they only get made by luck.
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- carlmr 6y agoThat's true, i just wanted to point out that two of the given examples were blatantly false.
- imtringued 6y agoEurope has lots of young men doing nothing because they aren't needed.