Comment by s_dev
4 years ago
>So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures like the US?
The US has a very mature and developed tech VC scene. Where's Europes isn't as mature. Also clustering is a thing -- why didn't Silicon Valley happen in New York either -- many of the conditions were there just like California but it didn't materialize and Europe was simply a mess in the aftermath of WWII there weren't going to be many tech revolutions taking place there.
In fact ironically enough there was such a congregation of talent in Berlin in the 1930s that some have predicted a second "Renaissance" was inevitable were it not for WWII.
You can look at the two world wars as an elaborate suicide attempt of Europe which resulted in handing over the world to the US. It's quite depressing really.