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coldtea on Jan 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Find Europe

>That's "smart" for the individual, but if no-one takes the shot, the hundred startups needed to get to the one that gets big doesn't get started.

True, but so what? What exactly have we gotten by those kind of startups that we couldn't have gotten better from stabler, long term, businesses?

I mean, consider, as I do, things like Instagram and Twitter as essentially BS.

The most valuable things I can think of is stuff like Google, Skype, PayPal et al. But those are not the kind of startups people pursue these days.

mseebach on Jan 19, 2014 [–]

> I mean, consider, as I do, things like Instagram and Twitter as essentially BS.

> The most valuable things I can think of is stuff like Google, Skype, PayPal et al. But those are not the kind of startups people pursue these days.

Sounds like you suffer from a severe case of confirmation bias.

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