Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley

Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by jboy55 on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:40PM (#16997576)

One of the problems is the public demands a lower risk investment. A single Theranos would knee cap the entire VC industry in Canada. "How could this be allowed to happen?!" The stories of LPs losing their $50k investments would lead the newspapers for months.

In Silicon Valley its a, 'Oh that sucks, but the smart money stayed away, that should have been a tell for the other investors".

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by Kelbit on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:58PM (#16997742)

That already happened, to a degree. Canada's dot-com darling was Nortel, which at peak accounted for 1/3 of the total valuation on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Then the bubble burst and Nortel collapsed. A lot of institutional investors swore off tech after that, and it hasn't really rebounded.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by spoonie on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:35PM (#17000029)

Nortel was an actual fraud though, as well as collapsing as a company. Changing financial reporting rules could prevent another Nortel-style fraud.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by Kelbit on Friday May 04, 2018 @11:13PM (#17000133)

Agreed! But that wasn't the message that Bay Street took from it.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by moltar on Friday May 04, 2018 @11:32PM (#17000178)

And all of the tech was siphoned away by Chinese spies!

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