A view from a entrepreneur (&developer) on @eastdakota & @Cloudflare

I have always loved and used Cloudflare. I had personal friends work there and lots of respect. Until now

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Their CEO has some claims about the Portuguese government for creating 100 jobs

I have no idea about the claim but going to think it’s true. That’s unfortunate and hope they can fix it.

We didn’t create 100 jobs, but we created 50 plus.

I haven’t lived in Portugal for 15 years, so I’m a foreign entrepreneur.

But not the boss of a tech giant

The government has spoken to me about job creation zero times.

I got access to zero incentives or sugar deals

I understand they do this for big tech companies, but to me that wasn’t even a dialogue available

I’m not happy about it: as a not tech giant I am loosing in the battle for talent sponsored by my government

But Portugal is not the only government doing it, let’s just

The incentives for Portuguese entrepreneurs are inexistent

That why all Portuguese tech companies are actually London or US based

Still people are grateful for what is great about Portugal. I am proud of my teams there. And thankful.

Because I’m Portuguese citizen I tried to follow the law but our competitors didn’t.

Certain companies which shall not be named followed processes that they can only afford to do because they are not in PT jurisdiction and can afford the lawyer fees.

This meant I lost team members cause I just couldn’t pay in the same way (ie. contract)

Once again

For all that is bad I had the loyalty and togetherness of my team. The world ain’t perfect. Thankful

Now the founder of @cloudflare says Portuguese folks are liars.

That I don’t understand. Portuguese folks are super critical of themselves but we don’t take kindly to xenophobia

Who does?

And if I ever ask the stereotype a Portuguese person, like a family member

I wouldn’t call them a liar it wouldn’t even cross my mind as a stereotype

But the founder of cloudflare is surprised some politicians are liars

I would say, he might find out that does not end in Portugal

Hopefully he apologises for what he said.