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Re:Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind... by dmitriid on Sunday September 04, 2022 @12:45AM (#32709929)
> unless someone shows European companies are more profitable

They are. Most US "innovative competitive startups" are losing hundreds of millions, and often billions of dollars a year, for decades.

Europe (thankfully) doesn't want to do that. And "grossly underpaid software developers" enjoy a high quality of life on par with the rest of the population (universal healthcare, extended parental leave, vacations etc.)

Re:Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind... by gumby on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:51AM (#32710224)
> Most US "innovative competitive startups" are losing hundreds of millions, and often billions of dollars a year, for decades.

That isn’t actually true. A few certainly are, and they make great press fodder. But most don’t have that luxury. Actually it’s a burden: you suffer much more dilution.

Re:Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind... by dmitriid on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:37AM (#32710461)
> That isn’t actually true. A few certainly are, and they make great press fodder

The ones HN like to point at usually are. E.g. basically all of YCombinator companies.

> But most don’t have that luxury.

Thise that don't have the luxury are likely to have salaries more in line with European counterparts.