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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Aug 2019

      Becoming more bureaucratic kills companies. And yet no one who introduces measures that make a company more bureaucratic ever seems to realize they're doing it. All they see is the upside.

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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Aug 2019

      Fortunately there is a mechanism for ensuring that the median company isn't too bureaucratic: startups. Companies never become less bureaucratic, but they do get killed by startups that haven't become bureaucratic yet, which amounts to the same thing.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Aug 2019

      Hypothesis: The degree of bureaucracy in a country's private sector is inversely proportional to the rate of startup formation.

      1:21 PM - 15 Aug 2019
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        2. HH‏ @RealHerbHoover 15 Aug 2019
          Replying to @paulg

          What's a startup for government?

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        3. Mike Kelly‏ @mikekelly85 15 Aug 2019
          Replying to @RealHerbHoover @paulg

          BLOCKCHAIN

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        1. WesternWizard‏ @Westernwizard 15 Aug 2019
          Replying to @paulg

          I would agree with that. Some people have a specific vision that they feel the need to fulfill themselves and were always going to make a startup, but how many more start with wanting freedom and then look for an idea?

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        1. Interview Cake‏ @InterviewCake 15 Aug 2019
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          @patio11, would you say Japan is a counterexample to this?

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        1. Jim Baxter  👨🏻‍💻 🚀‏ @_JimB 15 Aug 2019
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          Europe?

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        2. Chris Uehlinger‏ @Uehreka 15 Aug 2019
          Replying to @paulg

          Don’t you have that backwards? I thought you would be saying that more bureaucracy in the private sector fuels more startup formation.

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        3. Interview Cake‏ @InterviewCake 15 Aug 2019
          Replying to @Uehreka @paulg

          Oh wait, I think I read it this way too.

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        1. Lucio Martelli‏ @LucioMM1 15 Aug 2019
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          Works for italy

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        2. Víctor R.‏ @nudpiedo 15 Aug 2019
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          How to fight against chaos and misscoordination? Just stay small and hope all our intentions and views we are somehow fitting?

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        3. Josu Goñi‏ @JosuGoi1 15 Aug 2019
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          How does nature? It's chaotic and misscoordinated and yet here we are.

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