What Tobias Lütke thinks about Silicon Valley
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Their wordsI think there's just too much cross-pollination. You kind of have to sync with companies towards, like, entropy creates equilibria. And so you end up, like, with the companies just being very recognizably similar to each other.
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