Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe
by randompwd on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @09:40AM
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> Plenty of Irish software developers -- they also leave Ireland and found companies in other countries like Stripe.
Geez, the smarminess in this comment - unreal.
2 students who graduated secondary school went to college in usa, lived in usa and started a company called stripe. they were college students who dropped out.
Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe
by fakedang on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:25PM
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It's like how people claim greatness from some American or European emigre from their country who was able to excel precisely because of the opportunities offered by the West.
Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe
by polack on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @08:36AM
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I dont use Google. Never heard of any of the companies you posted, but I took a look at the website of the first one (Intercom): "The company was founded in 2011 in San Francisco"...
I'm sure they have some Irish connection, but it's obviusly not a Dublin company.
Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe
by s_dev on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @09:43AM
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Product is built in Dublin -- their investment came from the US -- all four founders are Irish. No company at that scale is exclusively a single nationality.
Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe
by polack on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:16AM
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Your Dublin unicorn examples:
* Intercom - Founded in San Fransisco according to themselves.
* Workhuman - Founded 20+ years ago.
* CarTrawler - Founded 30+ years ago.
Not really signs of a "Silicon Valley"-startup/unicorn kind of atmosphere in my book :)
Intercom, Workhuman and CarTrawler and others are in the pipeline like Pointy and Manna. Plenty of Irish software developers -- they also leave Ireland and found companies in other countries like Stripe.