Re:How to Think for Yourself
by whimsicalism on Friday November 27, 2020 @11:53AM
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> Are you talking about the business world? The whole of EU seems to strongly disagree with SV VC thinking.
The US is dominant in the Western business world, things that become popular business practices here get ported over to the EU.
I think it's pretty clear that if it is not dominant, it is sharply ascendant in the past 5 years. HN commentators and certain segments of Twitter basically worship at the feet of successful VCs.
Re:How to Think for Yourself
by Apocryphon on Friday November 27, 2020 @11:31AM
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If SV VC thinking wasn’t dominant, how come they’re so rich?
Using money as a proxy for "dominant thinking" is a good example of SV VC thinking.
Re:How to Think for Yourself
by Apocryphon on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:15PM
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I’m riffing off of the adage, “if you’re so smart, how come you’re not rich?”
Re:How to Think for Yourself
by onecommentman on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:01PM
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The conventional retort to that gambit has been “if you are so rich, why aren’t you smart”? Which is why you don’t hear that adage very much anymore.
> Right now Silicon Valley VC thinking is the dominant ideology
Are you sure? Are you talking about the US? And even then it's probably true for only ~half of the states? Are you talking about the business world? The whole of EU seems to strongly disagree with SV VC thinking.
Edit: Why doesn't the EU replicate the success of US startups? You think EU policy makers don't understand what is needed for that? Or that there's not enough "talent"? I doubt it. I think it's a more or less conscious decision to avoid the US startup culture. It's a cultural thing.