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Sure, but other stats are useful too like "Unicorns per capita" being higher than any region except SF. Stockholm is surprisingly innovative - even the day to d

Sure, but other stats are useful too like "Unicorns per capita" being higher than any region except SF. Stockholm is surprisingly innovative - even the day to day surprises me with technical integrations between services. I used to live in Palo Alto & the difference between Stockholm & even the Bay Area is huge, minus the self-driving cars. My point is that having these Union collective bargaining agreements doesn't impact innovation in either # of successful startups or just general country innovation metrics.

ernst_klim 3y ago
> Unicorns per capita > Stockholm is surprisingly innovative This is only when you do an intellectually dishonest trick of comparing Stockholm the city to american states capita-wise. If you compare Stockholm (0.8 unicorns per capita) to other large cities, it will lag behind NY (1.48 UpC), Boston (3.5), Austin (1.0), Denver (1.4) etc.
- eddtries 3y ago
  > This is only when you do an intellectually dishonest trick of comparing Stockholm the city to american states capita-wise How? 30 in Stockholm, population of ~950,000 21 in Boston, population of ~650,000 7 in Denver, population of ~700,000 etc... I was going off of government info [0] but if you manually check you'll find it still works out albeit unicorns change pretty often at the moment. [0] https://start.stockholm/en/about-the-city-of-stockholm/how-the-city-is-governed/business/ https://start.stockholm/en/about-the-city-of-stockholm/how-t... edit: Okay Boston might have 31 [1], but while you're comparing leading cities to Stockholm you still have the remainder of the US which brings innovation rankings down. My overall point that Sweden has a decent level of innovation & startups (per capita) while maintaining a much better standard of living still stands IMO. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/greater-boston-area-unicorn-startups https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/greater-boston-area-unicorn-s...
  - robertlagrant 3y ago
    > you still have the remainder of the US It would be strange to compare a capital of one country to the countryside of another.
    - eddtries 3y ago
      Keep moving the goal posts, it's fun

ernst_klim 3y ago

> Unicorns per capita > Stockholm is surprisingly innovative This is only when you do an intellectually dishonest trick of comparing Stockholm the city to american states capita-wise. If you compare Stockholm (0.8 unicorns per capita) to other large cities, it will lag behind NY (1.48 UpC), Boston (3.5), Austin (1.0), Denver (1.4) etc.

eddtries 3y ago
> This is only when you do an intellectually dishonest trick of comparing Stockholm the city to american states capita-wise How? 30 in Stockholm, population of ~950,000 21 in Boston, population of ~650,000 7 in Denver, population of ~700,000 etc... I was going off of government info [0] but if you manually check you'll find it still works out albeit unicorns change pretty often at the moment. [0] https://start.stockholm/en/about-the-city-of-stockholm/how-the-city-is-governed/business/ https://start.stockholm/en/about-the-city-of-stockholm/how-t... edit: Okay Boston might have 31 [1], but while you're comparing leading cities to Stockholm you still have the remainder of the US which brings innovation rankings down. My overall point that Sweden has a decent level of innovation & startups (per capita) while maintaining a much better standard of living still stands IMO. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/greater-boston-area-unicorn-startups https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/greater-boston-area-unicorn-s...
- robertlagrant 3y ago
  > you still have the remainder of the US It would be strange to compare a capital of one country to the countryside of another.
  - eddtries 3y ago
    Keep moving the goal posts, it's fun