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Now, compare that to Putin's pipe dreams of creating his own version of Silicon Valley in Russia. Obviously, even he can't be that stupid. So it's all PR, Putin
by hastur 14y ago
Now, compare that to Putin's pipe dreams of creating his own version of Silicon Valley in Russia. Obviously, even he can't be that stupid. So it's all PR, Putin doesn't want Russia to go anywhere, he just loves presiding over the vast criminal empire of intelligence services, organized crime and oligarchs.
- BadassFractal 14y agoWhat ever happened to that, by the way? So far the only big companies to come out of Russia were basically local language counterparts of Yahoo, Facebook and Norton.
- krasin 14y agoPlease, define "big"? What's about Parascript (acquired for $50M in 2008)? http://www.crunchbase.com/company/parascript http://www.crunchbase.com/company/parascript Abbyy? http://www.crunchbase.com/company/abbyy http://www.crunchbase.com/company/abbyy Evernote? Badoo? Parallels?
- BadassFractal 14y agoEvernote/Badoo were not founded / grown in Russia as far as I can tell. It would be like saying that Google is a Russian company because Sergey was born there. Also, the fact that a 50m company even needs to be mentioned among the "top" should be sufficient proof of the country's impact on the rest of the world (again, I'm not counting Russia-specific Yandex/Rambler/Odnoklassniki/[...] here)
- krschultz 14y agoYour own link says that Parascript is now headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
- ajays 14y agoParascript was a Russian company, but they moved en masse to Boulder in 1994 (IIRC). They are (were?) a group of very smart engineers, very strong in DSP.
- rdl 14y agoWith the number of amazing engineers from Russia and the rest of fUSSR, they'd basically need to have 20-30% of all successful technology companies to be keeping up. That's clearly not the case, so somehow the Russian business environment is underperforming for tech companies and startups.
- alexro 14y agoThere are nice exceptions, nginx is the most prominent one in the open source space. Nonetheless, the SV dream is just a PR.
- huhtenberg 14y agoKaspersky would be another one. There's also Paragraph (creators of Newton's handrwriting recognition module), but they are from the earlier times.