

Severin Hacker
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@severinhacker
@duolingo co-founder and CTO.



For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was the most expensive college town in America. Shortly thereafter, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, nominal rents are below 2018 rates—remarkable progress on affordability.







You could have taken the $1.5B invested here and put it as seed rounds to 15,000 AI startups in Europe While giving them a special free "startup pass" with no regulation and no taxes for the next 5-10 years You'd get mushroom growth of AI startups in Europe 1% or 150 of those startups would become a big success, and 0.5% or 75 of those would become a unicorn, 0.2% or 30 would IPO and become publicly listed European success stories in AI
