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Re:Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective by btilly on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:57AM (#23918372)
Do you have statistics demonstrating that, per capita, the USA outperforms Nordic countries on entrepreneurship?

I don't either way. But I have run across the counterintuitive fact that Nordic countries outperform the USA on how many people per capita are worth at least $30 million. And at least some of them got there through entrepreneurship.

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Re:Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective by djhn on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:07AM (#23924601)
Can't ignore old money. Nordics (most obviously Sweden and Denmark), Baltics (Lithuania) and many CEE countries (Poland) have hundreds of old aristocratic families with family trees two to four times as old as the US.
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