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by nickpp 3y ago
Rule of law stays at the base of any civilized society. Contract law, antitrust, anti cartel and the like are necessary to simply establish the rules of the game. It is the government’s role to implement them, together with taxing externali
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by nickpp 3y ago
> strong-arming [...] into not doing business with the startup Isn't that illegal already?! I don't see how extra regulation can change anything. Any company is liable to try anti-competitive behavior and that is why it's
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by nickpp 3y ago
For the customers in the first place. Then for the society through the advantages brought by those products/services. Finally for its investors - which may as well be us with how easy is to buy stocks nowadays.
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by nickpp 3y ago
How exactly will startups will have “no real chance to compete”? What is the mechanism that will stop them? Unless prevented by governmental regulation or similar (like patents) startups move faster and are more innovative and creative. The
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by nickpp 3y ago
GDPR is also used in my country to protect the identities of people in administration making sweetheart deals with their spouse/children/friends company for public works. All opaque now. Also the privacy of politicians being inv
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by nickpp 3y ago
Regulation is always favoring the incumbent. Always. The mere act of acknowledging, studying and respecting regulation (even if favorable) is a discouraging factor for a beginner founder.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Goliaths were and will always be around. But as long as there is an unregulated, free market - there will always be startups competing. It’s not easy, but it’s doable through innovation and creativity. The Goliaths are always more conservat
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by nickpp 3y ago
Many other countries would love if the US would break their Crown Jewels. The value they create is incredible, the whole market moves with them and USA owns the great majority.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Any single Nx buyout results in N additional startups being funded. This is how VC culture operates and grows. It’s one of the main ingredients that build Silicon Valley’s success. Other countries are desperate to copy this model.
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by nickpp 3y ago
A more in-depth discussion of the original Manifesto can be found in Marc & Ben's show: https://youtu.be/HCfwKBwxLYk
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by nickpp 3y ago
That excuse does not explain the fact that the government services are crappy no matter what wing is on power and that the costs and size of said government are ballooning every year. Come on, for half the money I make I get a handful of su
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by nickpp 3y ago
It always blows my mind seeing people defending any tax when they can clearly see with their own eyes how ”good” is the government at spending the money it currently takes from us. And you want to give them more?!
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by nickpp 3y ago
Do you realize the billionaire has no saying in how much money he “has”? He just owns stock in a company he built from ground up. It’s us saying that that stock has a certain value. It’s us saying the owner is a billionaire. We are the
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by nickpp 3y ago
Now do private investments: everything else. Every single object and service I use or interact with every day. From the clothes on my back and food on my plate to the house sheltering me, furnace heating me, car carrying me and the computer
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by nickpp 3y ago
I am happy for you. Now, what do you think, was the ability for you to delete accounts worth the fact that the mayor of my town keeps winning elections in spite countless corruption charges and scandals - all conveniently wiped off the inte
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by nickpp 3y ago
Yeah, well, I don't have any statistics here, it's just what I notice in my everyday life: many more startups and services coming from USA and almost none from EU. UIPath is the only one I know of, I think. But I am happy to be pr
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by nickpp 3y ago
GDPR: clicking cookie banners till the end of time while any ad-supported startup this side of the pond died or jumped ship to the US. Right to be forgotten: a blessing for corrupt EU politicians who can finally scrub their record clean aft
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by nickpp 3y ago
By successful I mean profitable privately held, IPOed or acquired. Growth is a must - large companies are market makers and a continent without them will become dependent on the ones that have them. Bought out is also fine - that how you ge
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by nickpp 3y ago
Just from what I am using personally Figma and ChatGPT come to mind. The whole AI wave has nothing this side of the pond. Now the success of these AI tools is not yet guaranteed, so maybe I am wrong.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Are you aware of any innovation or successful startups that came out of the EU in the last 5 years? How can you regulate a field you have no players in?
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by nickpp 3y ago
> SV, Seattle and NY I live in a small town in Eastern Europe and I get contacted weekly by individual investors, firms and funds. In my turn, I mentor entrepreneurs and invest (angel, seed or later rounds) in ideas that could make a dif
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by nickpp 3y ago
> he did not build Amazon from nothing So all those broke founders that went to investors and raised money to fund their startups - did not build them from nothing?! That is news for them, I am sure. > exploit other human The absolute
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by nickpp 3y ago
Plenty of people willing to invest in you right now if you can manage to come up with an idea and are willing to work at it as Jeff Bezos did. Offering people jobs which they can freely accept, reject or negociate is not exploitation. You c
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by nickpp 3y ago
Plenty of people willing to give you right now that money if you are willing to try do what Bezos did. This very website was made by some of them, you may have heard of that. And the fac that his parent had that money to invest in him? Anot
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by nickpp 3y ago
Running his first success through now (which his "wealth" pretty much entails) is plenty for us. The "everything store". His second? AWS. Third? Prime. Fourth? One-day-delivery. Bravo!
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by nickpp 3y ago
Yeah, if it was so easy why didn't anybody else do it? Better yet, pick an "easy" idea from right now and go ahead and execute it. Then come back and report how "easy" it really is.
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by nickpp 3y ago
> morally correct manner Whose morals? Who judges the correctness of the manner? > Piketty writes Piketty has done nothing for his society. Today's France's top 3 companies are in Fashion. Another country left behind. Its ph
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by nickpp 3y ago
Which his parents had also thanks to... capitalism. And, you know, today countless investors are ready to give YOU millions if you are willing to do what Bezos did. This very site is known for something like that.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Most of that wealth is tied in Amazon so he’s “using” it every single day to serve us and provide jobs for all those hundred of thousands of people.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Anybody who bough 1 Amazon stock on IPO day could’ve taken that risk. It wasn’t that hard or expensive, come on. Most people didn’t though. Jeff basically built that company from nothing. He deserves any wealth he has.

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