Show HN: LaunchAfrica – Find startup and tech jobs in Africa

Re:Show HN: LaunchAfrica – Find startup and tech jobs in Africa by dave_4_bagels on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:40PM (#25391415)

They're not including them because this site, although portraying itself as an act of outreach and charity in a sense, is really just angling for even cheaper and misguided labor than is currently available in the US. (obviously, this does not apply to companies that have been founded in Africa. I'm pointing to the Amazon, Uber and MSFT listings)

We should by all means support companies in africa, Ghana is an incredible source of genuine groundbreaking businesses. I've visited and can attest to this first hand. However, the big tech co's posting here really just seems like the 21st century form of colonialism. Taking advantage of a market that unlike the US still doesn't see the less "happy" side of these huge tech companies in light of these tech companies having to put up with H1B legislation in the US that actually treats immigrant workers fairly. Which means big tech can't treat hoards of H1B's as modern day slave labor.

Go Africa! But this website left a bad - very suss taste in my mouth.

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Re:Show HN: LaunchAfrica – Find startup and tech jobs in Africa by atlasunshrugged on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:51PM (#25391651)

I don't get this take - the founder mentioned he grew up in Africa in one of the threads (of course this doesn't preclude him from taking advantage of folks in the African job market, it doesn't exactly scream colonial mindset) and I'm just not sure what you're talking about for the big tech co's not hiring locally. Would you rather they just hired abroad but then those people would build products for Africa? Seems worse. Or would you rather every African country build its own MSFT, Google, Apple, etc. competitor domestically?

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Re:Show HN: LaunchAfrica – Find startup and tech jobs in Africa by truetaurus on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:11PM (#25392022)

thanks :)

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Re:Show HN: LaunchAfrica – Find startup and tech jobs in Africa by truetaurus on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:11PM (#25392020)

Yeah I am also a very opened mined person and really don't get your comment, What would you see me do differently? Whats your main issue here? Lets find a solution together.

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