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- Message safely. While Elon Musk and a bevy of billionaire tech CEOs head to Washington, Meredith Whittaker is looking to Europe. The noted Big Tech critic and president of Signal, the secure messaging platform, believes that Silicon Valley is no longer home to tech's hottest innovation.
"This is where the cool, smart people who I used to meet in the cafeteria at Google in the mid-2000s are," she told me onstage at the tech conference Slush in Helsinki late last year. "Really vibrant tech ecosystems are only growing outside of Silicon Valley." That divide comes down to different approaches to regulation and profit motive on either side of the Atlantic, Whittaker says.
