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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 4

    Something I misunderstood for years: the advantage of Silicon Valley isn’t just access to capital and a lot of engineers- that’s relatively easy to solve for. The hard part is huge numbers of executives with 10+ years of experience.

    7:56 AM - 4 May 2018
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      2. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 4
        Replying to @AustenAllread

        I AM NOT GIVING AWAY ANY CRYPTOCURRENCY AND THIS IS A SCAM

        2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
      3. Sar Haribhakti‏ @sarthakgh May 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        You have finally made it big on crypto twitter!

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      2. Marc Canter - AI Authoring‏ @marccanter4real May 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Until they have 30+ year experience - at which point they're thrown under the bus.......

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 5
        Replying to @marccanter4real

        If there are execs with 30 yrs of experience thrown under the bus please send them my way

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. Marc Canter - AI Authoring‏ @marccanter4real May 9
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        OK so I sent myself your way - this is when patience is a virtue until its interpreted as being a laggard. I've given you the obglitory 3 days............. w/o bothering you 'cause, you know - you're busy and all that. But at some point...........

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      2. Dan listens to the hissing steam radiator‏ @danlistensto May 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        people can't move for work? also, don't you think that creates a huge groupthink liability?

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 4
        Replying to @danlistensto

        Getting large numbers of more well established people to move is difficult

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      4. Rob Nelson‏ @rnelson0 May 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred @danlistensto

        There’s a solution, it’s called money.

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      1. William Saar‏ @saarw May 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        From working in SF and Stockholm, a big difference is the much greater number of largish enterprises available as customers in the valley. It's no surprise that Silicon Valley does so much better for B2B startups while Sthlm has mainly had B2C success (Skype, Spotify, King etc.)

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      2. Zachary Rosen‏ @zack May 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Exactly. There are maybe ~2,000 people in the world who know how to take a software company from 0 to among biggest in the world in a decade flat. A disproportionate number live in the bay area. But that knowledge will seep out in time.

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      3. Robot Bastard‏ @Robot_Bastard May 5
        Replying to @zack @AustenAllred

        But there are 2 million who *almost* know...

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      2.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann May 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Hmm, I think "just" is doing a fair bit of work here. Hiring is the hardest problem all up and down the stack

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      3.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann May 4
        Replying to @sonyaellenmann @AustenAllred

        (Based on my conversations with CEOs, so YMMV)

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      4. Chris Best‏ @cjgbest May 4
        Replying to @sonyaellenmann @AustenAllred

        Sure, but SV is less unique in it's access to e.g. smart junior devs. SV is unique for *experienced* folk, because of the scale and because of people moving around so much (the positive side of "hard to retain")

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      1. Joshua Kozak‏ @CoachKozak May 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Seriously, just walk into @hanahaus in Palo Alto on Tuesday morning and take your pick.

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      1. Michael Wolfe‏ @michaelrwolfe May 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        The companies I know in Europe all struggle with this.

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      1. Hans‏ @hkessock May 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        That's an excellent point as startups anywhere can have a great 9 months and then when you need that experience (to manage the transitions/scaling) the vast majority fall apart.

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