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- title: Startups et éthique
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- > Belgium doesn’t need more startups if you want **long-term innovation**. Having little dedicated teams raising money from a very specific part of the population and selling out 18 months later to American tech giants is not gonna help create many jobs in Belgium. Silicon Valley profits California a lot because eventually those startups are going to be acquired by tech giants in the region. But Belgian startups selling out to US-tech giants have **little to offer to the Belgian economy** (especially without a tax on capital gain).
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- > Most startups have a terrible culture, hostile against minorities and affected by what is known as the **brogrammer culture**. CEOs believing they are *making impact* by building a to-do app. It’s just a facade. I found **little ethical considerations** in that specific Silicon Valley kind of startup.
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- > Our relationship with Google is pretty close to the medieval feudal system. They provide us a service and in exchange we give them our data. The “digital knights” are in control, the vassals must abide by the dictated law (terms of services), do they really have a choice to enter that contract? Not really.
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- > <cite>*[Do we really need startups?](https://medium.com/@FredericJacobs/do-we-really-need-startups-b659d4fa495)* ([cache](/david/cache/7aa96ab5f7af18e008191927ee70ff1f/))</cite>
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- Je suis toujours tiraillé au sujet des *startups*. Il y a le côté « pire représentation du capitalisme ». Mais il y a aussi une forme d’espérance, de naïveté entrepreneuriale. Je ne ferai pas les erreurs de mes pairs/pères. On retrouve ce *pharmakon* dans toute création. Y compris la création d’humains.
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