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Why exclude the success stories in Silicon Valley - seems like an arbitrary decision to exclude Discord say or Pinterest?

It does seem there aren't that many very big companies outside of Silicon Valley using Elixir but maybe that's a factor of Silicon Vally having the vast majority of winners period.

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Well, I don’t live in Silicon Valley, and as a result, the company I work for is not a Silicon Valley company. If I am going to convince the management to invest in Elixir, I need to be able to answer questions like this. Pretty much everyone I have spoken to about Elixir, inevitably brings up this point.

I don't understand why you make the distinction between Silicon Valley and not Silicon Valley because where something is done makes absolutely zero difference as to if it's a good idea to use software or not.

If there was a text editor that you thought was good but was only in use in Silicon Valley would you still recommend it? I've never ever in my life discounted a piece of software because it was only in use in Silicon Valley.

Maybe you could expand on the argument because I don't understand it clearly!

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