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I like how you paint all the companies from a single country with such a wide brush! You are very wrong - A few Israeli startups that have made revolutionary products, off the top of my head:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobileye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber

Oh and Apple, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Motorola, and Google have offices there - so perhaps there is some tech talent there? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Wadi)

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Talking about hardware. Though even based on the software products mentioned here, why Israel a startup nation? There are other countries other than USA, that had success with more products and far less hype.

Again, from usability and design perspective, internal market, Israel’s infrastructure is very backward. Universities, banks, governments ... everything was developed by one company, a contractor of Microsoft Israel called Matrix, and it looks as bad as it sounds.

It feels like you just have a bone to pick with Israel?

He is clearly not a fan, just look through his comment history.

Quite a few are interesting and even insightful...

just looked at the first 5 pages - couldn't find anything that supports your claim though.

Israeli here, this is very far from being true.

On top of my head only from HW perspective, one of biggest Intel microprocessors R&D centers is located in Haifa IL (recently leading the Ice Lake - Core i9) and manufacturing center in Kiryat Gat. Intel also acquired MobileEye for their autonomous cars technology. Apple had a few acquisitions in the recent years such as Primesense (the inventors of MS XBOX Kinect sensors), KLA acquired Orbotech, IBM acquired Trusteer and so on. Moving this thread to SW will make it blast. Either way, the contributions of such a small country to the tech world is not proportional.

Still, the country is terrible at turning successful startups into big, stable firms.

your list just confirmed the points you replied to.

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