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Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe by Apocryphon on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:06PM (#28144689)
> Daniel Ek didn't attend university. He tried to apply to Google but wasn't accepted.

Amazing, so he combines two Silicon Valley founder narratives of 1) being a college dropout (or lacking a degree at any rate) and 2) being rejected by an established big company.

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Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe by SilurianWenlock on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:14PM (#28147840)
Who are the others?
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Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe by Apocryphon on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:20PM (#28147934)
1) is a cliche at this point, to the extent that this 2015 listicle has a huge variety of figures both new and old:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/tech-ceos-who-ditched-college-for...

2) WhatsApp founder Brian Acton was famously rejected by Facebook (and Twitter), and is the canonical example, but there are others. There's even a website:

https://rejected.us

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