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Re:Joist lays off 60 employees in Toronto as company relocat... by spullara on Thursday June 23, 2016 @04:17PM (#11963980)
Generally for a tech startup, I do think it can make sense to move. Plus, necessity is the mother of invention, Airbnb and Uber were both started because of how painful it can be to live in SF. What if the founders had been somewhere affordable with great public transportation?
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Re:Joist lays off 60 employees in Toronto as company relocat... by st3v3r on Friday June 24, 2016 @01:56PM (#11971955)
They would have worked on something else, and someone else, preferably someone who doesn't believe in just snubbing labor laws, would have come up with the idea. Remember, Uber isn't a unique idea. There were at least 3 companies that came up with it around the same time.
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