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"I think really over the last decade or so, you've seen this great cultural shift towards #Aussies seeing that they can build iconic #SiliconValley-style #companies from #Australia and certainly from NSW," — #MatthewBright, Sydney Uni.
#startup 
/ #business <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-09/nsw-australia-startups-unicorn-sydney/104817998
@peterrenshaw they are called unicorns because they are extremely rare. Venture capital is not like getting a loan from a bank, it’s unsecured, high risk. So it’s the domain of those who can afford to loose, ie the already wealthy. That might be why Sydney is doing it better than Melbourne. No doubt it’s good news for Australian software developers.
@spmatich I’m thinking the only reason it’s Sydney is due to the plumbing of the #Internet landing there first. Finance isn’t any better/worse than Syd.
… The Internet Coy. I worked for started in a second floor of a hair salon in Doncaster when ISDN was king 
#Melbourne / #Doncaster <https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/4136533157/in/album-72157622883205450> / <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN>
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@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange@spmatich “Its first product, Kpow, is a toolkit for managing distributed event streaming platform Apache #Kafka, while its Flex platform is built for real-time data processing framework #Flink. Clients include Block, Pepperstone, Airwallex, and Afterpay.”
Dependency.
Makes for cherry-picking opportunities.
