Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation

Re:Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation by PhilipA on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @01:21PM (#12087931)

Lots of lost jobs in Denmark - a shame that so many European jobs are lost due to bad options of funding in EU.

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Re:Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation by jakozaur on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @01:29PM (#12087995)

Just be fair they still employ a lot of ppl in Denmark (164 according to LinkedIn), but majority is in USA (323).

I thing this number may be skewed a bit, LinkedIn is more popular in USA than in Europe.

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Re:Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation by PhilipA on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @01:30PM (#12088004)

The issue is that you know in what place they are going to grow in the future - it ain't going to be in Denmark.

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Re:Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation by _delirium on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @06:53PM (#12090356)

They're quite different jobs also. Core Unity engine development and most of the tech jobs are in Copenhagen, while the SF office is mostly sales/marketing/accounting. It was kind of a half-move where they moved the "business office" to SF but didn't move the technical team. That happened years ago, initially mostly because of sales: having an "SF" company and a sales team based in SF made it easier to get in contact with the large customers who produced most of their licensing revenue (at least at the time).

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Re:Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation by cylinder on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:04PM (#12088761)

you can craft all the laws you want, the mega-tech companies will always cluster in SFBay. If you're Dutch and you start a subsea oil exploration robotics company you will certainly open an office in Houston. And then your biggest customers and market will rapidly be Houston, and so your largest office becomes the head office. If you're Colombian and invent a brilliant trading algorithm, you will probably move to New York, regardless of the laws in Colombia.

This is just common sense. The best bet is to proudly foster these small companies which go big overseas and also have an ecosystem of smaller players who don't have huge multinational ambitions, likely also funded by these unicorn exits when the money recycles locally.

Of course, tune and craft laws and regulations to create the most output. But stop trying to fight this clustering effect...

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Re:Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation by aardvark291 on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:30PM (#12088956)

> you can craft all the laws you want, the mega-tech companies will always cluster in SFBay. ... This is just common sense.

What is the word I'm looking for? Hubris? Shortsightedness?

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Re:Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation by adrenalinelol on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @01:36PM (#12088057)

Can't this claim be applied to any globalization labor issue? Part of the EU is open borders, why stop with the EU member-state borders?

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Re:Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation by wolfgke on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @02:00PM (#12088273)

> Part of the EU is open borders, why stop with the EU member-state borders?

Because of the language borders usually correspond to the national borders of the EU member states. And if not language borders then completely different systems of taxation, employment rights etc.

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