Why Can’t Europe Do Tech?
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Why Can’t Europe Do Tech?
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#2Maybe because most Europeans are happy with a good work/life balance, and don't constantly obsess about pipe dreams that come through for one in a million people? Obviously such obsessives exist, but I bet they are a lot less common than in countries with a, let's say, get big or go home attitude. Also, state funded safety nets means it's less urgent to have $lots saved up to survive the next crisis.
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#3Is this article satire? Conflating inflated valuations, VC, and tech? I thought Bloomberg was a serious source.
https://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2017/20170307.html
Europe's potential in terms of innovation and technology is also highlighted by the number of European patent applications filed relative to a country's population. Switzerland again topped the ranking in 2016, with 892 applications per million inhabitants. Second and third place went to the Netherlands (405) and Sweden (360), followed by Denmark (334) and Finland (331). The first non-European country was again Japan in ninth place (166), which was above the EU average of 122.
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#4How many tech startups were acquired by the tech behemoths ?
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#5I'm Irish, almost all of my friends work for American companies in Dublin. This article has decided to count the ~100,000 Irish devs in American companies as American and then wonder why European companies aren't as big. Which is doubly funny when you realise that most of the American companies mentioned are "Irish" for most of the world.
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#6... yea because the industrial design inherent in ARM holdings or the original iPod or iPhone or Olivetti design or SAP... (Sigh)
Why can't Bloomberg do real research?
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#7Because the best European startup move to US early, and they become US companies.
Because they can't find as much funding in Europe as in US.
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#8... yea because the industrial design inherent in ARM holdings or the original iPod or iPhone or Olivetti design or SAP... (Sigh) Why can't Bloomberg do real research?
Also like half of the all manufacturing equipment, tons of medical/laboratory devices and what not. The only thing that Europe lack behind is home grown ad-fueled consumer startups.
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#9Tyrannical government. Same thing will and is happening here
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#10Maybe because most Europeans are happy with a good work/life balance, and don't constantly obsess about pipe dreams that come through for one in a million people? Obviously such obsessives exist, but I bet they are a lot less common than in countries with a, let's say, get big or go home attitude. Also, state funded safety nets means it's less urgent to have $lots saved up to survive the next crisis.
>state funded safety nets
Ding ding ding: this is the answer: those safety nets are also a cage.
Disclaimer: have started many businesses around the world, including the US and Europe. Europeans don't proceed to the glory and glamor of US startups because they have to deal with government bureaucracy, and alas such bureaucracy is contagious. The moment you wade into the grant-getting territory, you become a grant-getter. Grant-getters are anathema to technology-creators and other forms of society-changers.