Time was, UK and European digital entrepreneurs celebrated the continent’s disconnected, disparate digital media ecosystem.
Unbound by the shackles of meatspace, innovators and investors would tell you how cool it was to flexibly build startup companies of no fixed abode, with developers in Bulgaria or Timbuktu, business staff somewhere in England and others in some other far-flung place.
As Index Ventures’ Saul Klein told paidContent:UK in 2007: “We used to say at Skype that our head office was the internet. You have amazing developers from eastern Europe who you either work with in eastern Europe or in London. That’s vastly increased the available talent pool for starting companies.”
It was an antithetical and defiant riposte, from those otherwise enamoured with centralised Silicon Valley, to Europe’s lack of an equivalent tech hub.
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