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Comment by jkuria | Hacker News Reader

Why? TechCrunch publishes stories every day about US companies acquiring US companies. These stories are newsworthy. But if an entrepreneur who happens to have been born in Nigeria sells his company to Apple it is not newsworthy? Did he have to be living on a tree and subsisting on wild fruits and nuts in the Niger Delta swamps for it to be newsworthy?

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Relax, bro. He just means that the US-based founder's country of origin is not that significant to this audience, since many American startups have been founded by immigrants from all over the world. This came up because the title of this submission emphasised the founder's country of origin, which in turn is because the post was originally written for a Nigerian audience, for whom the founder's country of origin IS newsworthy.

Yep.

What tptacek, rdouble and james_madison said is accurate.

Also I don't consider most acquisitions all that interesting, but I would have been interested in reading about the Nigerian startup scene (if there is such a scene).

What tptacek, rdouble and james_madison said is accurate.

Hmm? I love being accurate but I didn't post anything to this thread.

Strangely enough, neither did the other two...

They were thinking it.

Indeed oO I meant cncool, clark-kent and seunosewa. Must have looked at the wrong section of the page or the wrong page or I don't know.

I stand behind everything I've said in this thread 1000%.

"If I write their comments, they will come."

EDIT: I want to downvote you for your name dropping, but I want to upvote you in the hope that you are a kindred nihilist.

Ah, I wish I'd be that clever.

There's a very small scene, yes. It's growing.

He means that it's not newsworthy to include that the founder is Nigerian in the headline. The big news is that Apple acquired HopStop.

He said "less newsworthy", not "not newsworthy".

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