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Building a product like WhatsApp or Facebook or Twitter is not just a question of finding engineers or the capital. There is a whole ecosystem of a thousand ideas at work. There are hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, committed technocrats in Government who have to come /1
together to make it work. European countries - France, Germany in particular - have been struggling for decades to replicate the success of the Boston and Bay Area clusters.
To begin with, the theoritical capability and the sheer volume of basic research that& #39;s available /2
To begin with, the theoritical capability and the sheer volume of basic research that& #39;s available /2
to be exploited is several orders of magnitude superior.
Next, the engineering chops. If Facebook and Twitter are armies, there is a whole arms manufacturing unit behind. In the last decade alone, technologies like Kafka, Redis, Hadoop, Hive, Spark have come out of the labs /3
Next, the engineering chops. If Facebook and Twitter are armies, there is a whole arms manufacturing unit behind. In the last decade alone, technologies like Kafka, Redis, Hadoop, Hive, Spark have come out of the labs /3
and engineering teams. That requires much more than armies of engineers. It requires path breaking engineering work and the ability to spot talent and nurture it.
I am sorry to say, but in my 2 decades of working in both startup and large services companies, I can safely say /4
I am sorry to say, but in my 2 decades of working in both startup and large services companies, I can safely say /4
that 5 years of a career in any run of the mill services organization will make a young engineer incapable of thinking through such problems.
We have a way out. We can go the China way, copycat and use legal talent to push things through. A large state backed Rocket Internet /5
We have a way out. We can go the China way, copycat and use legal talent to push things through. A large state backed Rocket Internet /5
style product factory should help us reduce tech reliance in a decade from now. /END
