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Is it because of the language?

• carlosjobim 1y ago
  Banking and incorporation laws.
• walthamstow 1y ago
  London is the biggest tech hub outside of the US and one of the biggest financial hubs anywhere, plus Oxford and Cambridge are just 1 hour away by train.
  • jjani 1y ago
    > London is the biggest tech hub outside of the US You must be excluding China there, as it alone has multiple tech hubs that make London look meaningless.
    • walthamstow 1y ago
      Which Chinese city is bigger than London in VC money?
      • jjani 1y ago
        Tech hub != VC money.
        • walthamstow 1y ago
          Read the thread again. Since you haven't given your any metrics of your own, the default is the one already in context of the thread.
          • jjani 1y ago
            Fair enough, though VC hub would've been a more apt phrasing then. I just mentioned it because in terms of actual tech development going on, the gap between 1. SV / China and 2. anywhere else (including London) is so absurdly vast it's almost meaningless to be 2nd in VC investment, you might as well be 10th.
            • walthamstow 1y ago
              That's fair, I don't disagree, I was just giving reasons why the UK gets so much more VC than European countries. I was probably a bit slapdash with my statement but I think it's true in the context I was speaking in.