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The governments spend 45% of GDP yearly. It's very likely that at some point, every company has served the public sector.

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM, list goes on, weren't envisaged by a 60 year old bureaucrat sitting in Brussels or Washington.

They were created by ambitious young men looking to shape the world in their own way.

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carlmr|5 years ago

>Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM

IBM and Google both came almost directly from government money. Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix are arguably actual startups.

kuschku|5 years ago

Although Microsoft really started as a subcontractor for IBM, which again shows the knock-on effects good government subsidies can have. Hadn't the DoD started SV, most of these companies wouldn't exist today.

imtringued|5 years ago

Europe has lots of young men doing nothing because they aren't needed.