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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. It is said that in San Francisco, failure is worn more like a badge of honor. And so the youth compete for the theoretical rather than the hands-on knowledge.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

That apparently escalated to the point that people have become bothered by Verified users spamming their main inbox, when they had set it open to receive DMs from the blue-badged crowd. We’re launching the pilot of Blue for Business so beginning today you’ll start seeing company badges on select profiles. per month in the U.S.

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