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probably returning, since the burn rate is much lower there. That's an advantage I have over other founders. Advantages are meant to be exploited.

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The whole world is full of founders. Being in the SV area is the rare advantage, not the other way around.

I'm sure. Don't get me wrong, it's very very helpful. However, most of the startup life is keeping your head down and working. I can fly to SV at any point, but setting up a team in Pakistan + office space + utilities is only a fraction of 1 programmer being paid in SV.

At such an early stage, survival is all we're focused on. The moment we can afford SV, we'll jump right on over!

That's awesome. I hear a lot here in Canada (as a foreigner here) about the efforts they made decades ago to build an educated workforce for the information economy and a local tech industry. It did great things here and I have to imagine it's great for Pakistan. There are strong engineers and digital artists coming from Pakistan, and in the long term they should be able to stay and have a great career at home.

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