didntreadarticl
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Comment · 3 years ago
me too
Comment · 3 years ago
He's 94, lets just be impressed he can have an opinion at all
Comment · 3 years ago
To be fair, Noam Chomsky is 94 years old now
Comment · 3 years ago
Thats kindof why I asked. I tried to think of UK equivalent to FAANG and couldn't come up with much. But there's lots of interesting responses to my comment, and an idea that kept coming through is that the UK is good at creating new companies but can't grow them beyond a certain point so they get acquired
Comment · 3 years ago
Thats interesting. So like engineering basically
Comment · 3 years ago
The UK hasn’t got any memorable tech company that is on the world stage that the public knows.
Yes thats a good way of putting it
Comment · 3 years ago
tell me about the big fintech and games ones
Comment · 3 years ago
Still in Cambridge but owned by Japans SoftBank Group. Does that count? When I look up 'UKs biggest tech companies' ARM doesnt get a mention.
Comment · 3 years ago
The UK had Amstrad, Sinclair, Acorn (which sortof became Arm)
What have we got now? When I look up the UKs biggest tech companies now its people like Aveva and Sage who make dull enterprisey software. Is there anyone else?
edit: I guess we might still have some big game studios?
edit: I'll also take websites, has the UK got any big website companies? Seems like our biggest are Rightmove and Autotrader
Comment · 3 years ago
Its Canva, but instead of stock art its AI generated stuff
Comment · 3 years ago
Dall-E, could you add a hat wobble to that?
.... And a Flarhgunnstow?