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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
What a wonderful story about the birth of the cloud. ☁️ There’s something to be said about setting up shop and then hiring from an overlooked technical community.
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Marc Brooker
@MarcJBrooker
Fun article about the early days of EC2 and the cloud in Cape Town. It was great working will all the folks in the photo, and I think most are still @awscloud aboutamazon.com/news/aws/firin
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
This comment is mostly inspired by Dan Luu:
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Dan Luu
@danluu
I mean that, if you want to hire someone remote who's in South Africa, you'll get told that South Africa is on a list of countries to avoid (along with countries like North Korea) and you'll never be able to get that approved. Ofc., that just means less competition for Amazon.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
I used to think that Singapore might be an overlooked country, but now I think Taiwan or Vietnam might be better candidates. Mostly because it’s actually really easy to set up in Singapore, and many FAANG companies have done so. Vietnam and Taiwan, on the other hand …
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Cedric Chin
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Both Taiwan and Vietnam have remarkably good technical talent. (Though of course you need to know how to hire; some universities better than others, etc). But both have language barriers. One of them is difficult to start businesses in, and the other has geopolitical risk.
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