SwedenCraft

Trying to avoid employment 💼

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@iamEvanYT @gabriel1 i bet that plays a huge role in the quick execution speed that sf is known for

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@gabriel1 @emmysteuer let's not pretend having a wealthy and well connected family does not completely change your life. there's a good reason industrial and banking families produce success for generations. the world is unfair, use it to your advantage, whether it's wealth, time, agency, skills, etc

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@paulg i guess you're talking about closer connections here. in stockholm you two were quite honest, none of the fake nice BS we usually expect

[Igor Blink @IgorBlinkk]

nobody in my family has ever left kazakhstan. i just flew half the globe to SF.

a week ago, i was in my village of 2,000 people with 3mb/s internet.
a year ago, i didn't even know what a SAFE note was.

today, i'm 17, standing in sf with $300k raised from top investors to build my startup.

now please, go tell someone else that staying delusional is stupid.

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@gabriel1 true, but fakes never kill the original, especially not in art

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@dev_kunjadia did you just fly to india?

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@andruyeung i remember visiting my friend's family home, swimming in the frigid fjords, fishing and eating cod everyday. lofoten is the fishers wet dream 😂 did you try any of the local food?

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@paulg @thekevinqi if you're any good, school/college will only slow you down. even for normal people it can. the curriculum is so bloated, designed by a hoarder going: "this might come in handy one day".

getting your hands dirty working and building gets you to solve problems like nothing else

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@paulg @faisal_ europe is not fairing any better. our leaders is using 1984, as a manual

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@paulg @martinfowler if so, you don’t have very good parents. parents should use their resources to help their kids succeed, including financial and networking support. it’s like asking your children to buy 100 kg of potatoes not letting them take the car because it’s yours and is an unfair advantage

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@AFECCG @TwinkTheory @SlumRNA_Dog this goes deeper than mere hobbies, it's about dignity. most don't think it's honorable to have sexual partners in the double digits, you're just a slut. sure you might pull it off if you're an eccentric like john mcafee or dan bilzerian, but don't expect to be taken seriously

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

du skulle aldrig våga kritisera europa, usa eller israels decennier av interventionism och krig i mellanöstern, afrika, asien, karibien, och sydamerika

[Henrik Dahl @SociologenHD]

@DerZenWeg Russia has no right whatsoever to determine the alliances and security arrangements af neighboring countries.

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@SociologenHD @DerZenWeg du skulle aldrig våga kritisera europa, usa eller israels decennier av interventionism och krig i mellanöstern, afrika, asien, karibien, och sydamerika

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@TwinkTheory @SlumRNA_Dog peak degeneracy, why would you even want to do this?

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@RichardHanania you're going to tell us china is capitalist next 😂 sweden is still a mixed economy and will probably continue to be so. you can fail or succeed with either capitalism or socialism, there is only good and bad governance, the legacy labels help no one

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@gabriel1 @BeaBushati that's totally fair. i'm not in the know, but i imagine startups would still keep 1 year terms to avoid employees fleeing during downturns, or so they have time to pivot

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@johnwilander @alden_niklas där jag tidigare jobbat räckte det med att hävda "arbetsbrist" och erbjuda avgångsvederlag för att locka iväg de oönskade medarbetarna. gick du inte med på det tvingar de ut dig på annat sätt, det gällde även tillsvidare anställda och arbetsgivaren har kollektivavtal med unionen

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

@johnwilander @alden_niklas inget fel med socialism om man gör som i asien, de growth/woke viruset har inte spridit sig dit än. för att få löneök på lovable förutsätter det att du levererar minst 10% bättre än föregående år. deras höga löner kräver också exceptionell motprestation, annars får du packa ihop!

[SwedenCraft @SwedenCraft]

att bloggaren @JohannesKlenell inte verkar förstå att hans kommentar troligen är den mest generösa komplimang han gett någon på länge

[Fredrik Hjelm 🇸🇪 @FredrikHjelm4]

Today I got a full page in @dagensnyheter culture section. A columnist calls me "a Swedish Elon Musk from Wish."

I'll take it. One factual claim deserves a response.

Klenell calls Swedish tech "air business" affecting "a few thousand Swedish jobs." Stockholm has the second highest number of unicorn companies per capita in the world, after Silicon Valley.

Hundreds of thousands of Swedes work in tech.

Ericsson, SAAB, MySQL. Spotify, Klarna, King, iZettle, Mojang, Truecaller, Sinch, Epidemic Sound. Not air businesses. They're why Sweden can afford its welfare state.

Then: I'm doing this to avoid paying tax.

As I've written before. I grew up in northern Sweden. Nurse mom and teacher dad. My grandparents worked hard to survive and build something. My parents worked hard to give me and my siblings a great life.

I'm grateful for that every day.

I have more money than I ever imagined growing up. My fiancée and I live simply. Tax is not the issue.

I want Sweden to be the best country in the world to build in. I want the next generation to have the same shot we had. And I don't want us to repeat the mistake of ignoring problems for twenty years and then attacking the person who names them.

Klenell has no data, no analysis, just labels.

Labels are easier than arguments.

Sweden deserves the arguments.