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Congratulations! "Originally from France, the company is now headquartered in San Francisco." Hmm, is it really advantage to move engineering to Bay Area from
by jakozaur 11y ago
Congratulations!
"Originally from France, the company is now headquartered in San Francisco."
Hmm, is it really advantage to move engineering to Bay Area from France. On LinkedIn it looks they have more than half of company employees are in Paris. Given large cost of living in Bay Area and how hard is to hire engineers there, it may make sense to grow their Paris office.
- ndessaigne 11y agoThanks :) Actually, we intend to continue growing the company in Paris too. The product is developed there.
- jedisct1 11y agoGood luck raising funds in France :( Docker also moved from France to San Francisco and if they hadn't done so, they would be dead by now. Congrats to Algolia. They have a killer product, backed by a really talented team.
- jacquesm 11y agoThe 'dailymotion' story certainly didn't help the French tech scene.
- jacquesm 11y agoYes, it's a huge advantage. It's unfortunate but that's the way it is at the moment, especially if you plan to get much bigger. Europe has very few large tech success stories. Of course if all the successful companies move their headquarters to the USA that will continue to be the case but there are certain very hard to replicate properties of both the Valley ecosystem and the USA in general (access to both capital and a very large audience with one dominant language) that make it an option you ignore at your peril. Note how it was Accel partners and not some French VC for this round. There are a number of examples of foreign owned successful companies that appear to the public as a US success story (Logitech for instance, which in fact is a Swiss company).