To be honest though: I assume one of the spin-off effects Gurley expects from 3 decacorns is early employees using their stock option returns to reinvest in the ecosystem. Which doesn’t happen in Amsterdam, because Dutch companies are stingy.
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Proposals for what the Netherlands could do to increase the number of (tech) startups often boil down to “more subsidies.” Instead, we should consider 3 systemic changes: ⁃ Incentivize stock compensation ⁃ Simplify corporate bankruptcy ⁃ Ban non-compete clauses
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Adyen had a surprisingly decent employee equity pool of 20% at IPO (of which 1/10 was awarded to two executives) https://www.adyen.com/dam/jcr:ab990e2d-7911-44b7-8932-beeec4809eba/Adyen%2520Prospectus.pdf …pic.twitter.com/AF99DwQlRx
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$14b Elastic search is also a good contender
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Yup! Though according to LinkedIn they seem to have more employees in Mountain View than Amsterdam
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Focus on Amsterdam doesn't really help. The Netherlands is small enough ;)
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Nah, you need an anchor city
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