foreverflexing
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foreverflexing
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San Francisco, CA انضم Haziran 2013
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@FredrikHjelm4 Tax reforms around capital gains certainly helped influenced a culture encouraging startups, especially when employees of companies could start investing and continue the flywheel. Never one right answer, but other countries could take some notes…🤓
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Sweden and Israel are #2 and #1 in the world at producing unicorns per dollar of GDP
Not the US. Not the UK. Not Germany
Most people explain this away with "great engineers" or "strong ecosystems." That's lazy
The real answer is uncomfortable: both countries have been forced to build. Israel because of existential threat
Sweden because we're small, export-dependent, and have had to punch out of our weight class for 200 years. IKEA, H&M, Spotify, Klarna, Ericsson
None of these were built because conditions were easy
Necessity breeds a particular kind of founder. One who doesn't wait for permission. One who assumes the market is global from day one because the domestic market is too small to matter
The countries falling behind aren't lacking talent or capital. They're lacking the chip on the shoulder and the right prerequisites
What's your read on why Sweden specifically?
Genuinely curious what people outside Sweden think

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they dont even give you time to recover from squirrels vaping these days...
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