I returned a few days ago from Silicon Valley. It was like a breath of fresh air. I talked to people who were involved in creating companies with hundreds of millions of dollars of value, within a few years after incorporation.
There is a constant stream of new start-ups and projects, an excitement in the air. A recently incorporated company was sold to Google for a billion dollars. And it got me thinking about how entrepreneurship is viewed so differently in Central Europe compared to the United States.
In the United States, in my view it is the Ayn Rand view of entrepreneurship that prevails: entrepreneurs are the ultimate modern heroes of society. They create the wealth and are the engines of development and progress. They are among the most respected members of society – in a place like Silicon Valley, probably the most respected. And as Steve Jobs once famously stated, their objective is to change the world (at least in their own little niche). They often succeed.
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