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Elon Musk says invest in more startups. Here's why.

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Elon Musk says invest in more startups. Here's why.

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So you really need to foster the the

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growth of of young companies. You need

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to have venture capitalists and an

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environment that is supportive of new

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companies. You can think of new

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companies like they're like small

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saplings in a forest. So what most

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countries tend to do is they tend to

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provide too much support to the large

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existing trees in the forest and not

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enough to the small saplings. But the

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large trees don't need the support. It's

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the small saplings that do the startups.

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And so the system should be generally

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biased towards supporting the small

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trees as opposed to the large ones. But

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that is rarely the case because the

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large companies have access to the

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leadership of the countries and the the

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small startups do

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The video discusses the importance of fostering young companies, using the analogy of saplings in a forest. It argues that government and economic systems often mistakenly favor large, established corporations over startups, despite the fact that startups are the ones in greater need of support and crucial for growth.

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