> As a Swede coming to the States, I was disillusioned. I had, as I think many young entrepreneurs have, idolized Silicon Valley as a utopian vision of an idealistic but well-meaning band of technocrats building the foundations for a just and democratic society, but in its place I found vanity, pettiness and greed. Not only did the emperor have no clothes, but the naked corpus revealed was unappetizing to my Swedish quasi-socialist ideals. Ultimately, I felt alone in Silicon Valley... I left.
Yup. Really weird place. Went through something similar and now I'm nearly certain I'll never go back there.
I find myself thinking about this when i compare US tech news and European tech news. More often than not, the US side have some quick buck angle, or "sugar water" consumption goal. Jump over to Europe and things seems to have more of a assistance angle.
Yup. Really weird place. Went through something similar and now I'm nearly certain I'll never go back there.