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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Dec 2019
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    Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Ryan Delk

    My core thesis for optimism about Japan’s future, which is contrarian at home and abroad: I think Tokyo imports the art and science of global scale tech companies from San Francisco before SAN Francisco successfully replicates everything else about Tokyo.https://twitter.com/delk/status/1201307121511325696 …

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    Ryan DelkVerified account @delk
    We should send 5 of San Francisco's Gov leaders to Tokyo for a 6 week program to work with / shadow their local leaders on transit, housing, and infrastructure. Tokyo is everything SF could be if we had the political and social will to be a world-class city open to everyone.
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      1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Dec 2019
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        Apologies for the curious choice by autocorrect; don’t think I’ve given it cause to believe I work with storage technologies frequently but who knows.

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      2. Jeff Atwood‏Verified account @codinghorror 1 Dec 2019
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        culture barriers too daunting. This is also partly why Ruby (the language) is a decade behind where it should be.

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Dec 2019
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        I think that “culture” is an extremely inadequate explanation with respect to the relative lack of success of Japan in software (except in all the places where that overgeneralization is false) or the relative lack of success of the United States in automobiles (ditto).

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      2. Ryan Delk‏Verified account @delk 1 Dec 2019
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        After a week in Tokyo, I agree — though I’m working hard to ensure SF has a chance :)

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Dec 2019
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        Race you :)

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        Thiel actually made a comment on this, and he notes the stopping of imports of “American” culture like golf, speaking English, etc. Now they just drop the facade and look inwards

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      2. DS‏ @dansburneracct1 1 Dec 2019
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        I think xenophobia alone will not allow this to happen. Brilliant immigrants from around the world just don’t go to Tokyo to build companies.

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      3. Jeff Lonsdale‏ @JeffLonsdale 1 Dec 2019
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        The numbers have been increasing. The quality of life draw is significant and it has apparebtly gotten slightly easier for various companies to recruit foreign talent.

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        I don’t know Tokyo (yet), but I’m blown away by the quality of life improvements in Holland. If the US can’t build people-oriented working infrastructure then it’s going to be game over eventually.

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