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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by norwegianwhale on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:01AM (#25358501)
The governments spend 45% of GDP yearly. It's very likely that at some point, every company has served the public sector.

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM, list goes on, weren't envisaged by a 60 year old bureaucrat sitting in Brussels or Washington.

They were created by ambitious young men looking to shape the world in their own way.

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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by carlmr on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:14AM (#25358632)
>Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM

IBM and Google both came almost directly from government money. Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix are arguably actual startups.

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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by kuschku on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:18AM (#25358678)
Although Microsoft really started as a subcontractor for IBM, which again shows the knock-on effects good government subsidies can have. Hadn't the DoD started SV, most of these companies wouldn't exist today.
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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by ChuckNorris89 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:26AM (#25358773)
Had WW2 never happen or the US not be in such an advantageous geographical position away from the "trouble", SV might not exist today.

The snowball/butterfly effect is real.

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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by sitkack on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:36AM (#25359598)
SV, Hollywood, the Aerospace-Defense Industry. All of it by purposeful accident.

I feel like some in tech want to take responsibility, somehow that American's are just better tech-bros than anyone else. It was mostly chance.

Call it what it is, a gift. And take care of it, they only get made by luck.

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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by carlmr on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:40AM (#25358900)
That's true, i just wanted to point out that two of the given examples were blatantly false.
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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by imtringued on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:01AM (#25359145)
Europe has lots of young men doing nothing because they aren't needed.
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