The ease with which capital flows in the United States, especially in comparison to South Africa, is not merely a product of economic disparities but is deeply rooted in the psychological infrastructure built upon a foundation of past triumphs, a robust belief system, and a culture that nurtures the audacious spirit of innovation.

In the vast expanse of the United States, the soil from which countless unicorns have sprouted, there exists a unique ecosystem that has been cultivated over decades of entrepreneurial evolution. The success stories of tech giants like Facebook, born from the dormitories of Harvard, or the meteoric rise of disruptive platforms like Uber and Airbnb, have etched indelible imprints on the collective consciousness of investors. These success stories, once improbable, now stand as testaments to the transformative power of innovation and the limitless possibilities that can emerge from the fertile grounds of American entrepreneurship.

As investors in the United States contemplate backing new ventures, they draw upon a rich tapestry of precedents—instances where visionary ideas transformed into billion-dollar enterprises, creating not just wealth but rewriting the very fabric of industries. The belief system that underpins this ecosystem is fortified by the understanding that innovation knows no bounds. Investors, having witnessed the emergence of unicorns even when the term itself was yet to be coined, harbor an inherent optimism that the next groundbreaking idea might just be around the corner.
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2024-05-02 16:08:06

with busy capital raising right for a vc firm much easier for me to raise a dollar in the us than to raise randhir much much easier
if you were meetings and less convincing and by the way you're solving an african problem it's actually
just because they get it the certain things you don't need to explain to them they get it they've seen it i've lived through it so if you talk to them about building a unicorn or high growth business they get a lot of them have lived through a generation where there was no facebook and other is one where there was no bipod another is one so because they've seen these things happen as the belief system that is immediately possible whereas you could argue different for south africa just quickly on the entrepreneurship conversation we don't lack talent here that's not a problem we don't have a term problem and that's the reason why elon musk has to lisa that could become your dominance it's because we like the talent it's just because the infrastructure and the belief system is wrong