I think the reason for Silicon Valley being in the USA and their entrepeneurial approach is that the USA as a country of immigrants has got higher concentration of people with ADD. ADD people from Europe migrated into the USA since people with ADD are more likely to migrate.
Those people are responsible for the culture of impulsivness and creativity in the USA, kinda like role models. So migration is responsible for the lack of this kind of entrepeneurial approaches in Europe and responsible for the surplus of the same in the USA.
I think there is a large truth here, in that Americans have the entrepreneurial spirit in their blood and in their culture. Most of our ancestors were highly dissatisfied with the status quo, to the point where they were willing to travel thousands of miles to a faraway land, back when that was a much bigger deal than it is today.
Really? I think its spot on. This trend continues to today.
As PG has pointed out in his advocacy for a founder visa [1], about half of vc-backed company founders are immigrants [2].
Even the descendants of ADD immigrants are more likely to have ADD themselves. There is a 30% chance for children to get ADD when 1 parent has got it and 50% chance when both parents have it.
Therefore percentage of people having ADD should be much higher in America than anywhere else.
Those people are responsible for the culture of impulsivness and creativity in the USA, kinda like role models. So migration is responsible for the lack of this kind of entrepeneurial approaches in Europe and responsible for the surplus of the same in the USA.
Simple, he? What do you think about this theory?