468 Capital raises $400M to back European startups

Post by capableweb » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 2:15 PM UTC

b3orn wrote: post #34

roenxi wrote: post #9

The problem Europe has isn't that they lack money, the problem is that all the things US tech companies do to get ahead are illegal in Europe. Out of FAANG, European regulators are decidedly against the F/G and probably have reservations about at least one of the As. I wouldn't feel off guard if it turns out Netflix were impractical in the EU due to challenges both regulatory and linguistic.

There have been quite a few social networks in Europe, some of which were more or less direct copies of Facebook at the time. Their decline started around the time Facebook became popular in there. There have been european streaming services years before Netflix was available there and there still are some, mostly owned by TV corporations. I think a lot of european startups focused to much on their starting country,…

Post by throwawayarnty » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 2:27 PM UTC

lostmsu wrote: post #62

throwawayarnty wrote: post #41

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I think the main factor is how many kids you have. No kids: USA > Europe 1 kid: they are similar 2 kids or more: Europe > USA In the USA each kid is an extra 3000 usd a month expense at least, more if one goes private and include university tuition. How parents can pay for two or more kids’s education in USA (or UK) is beyond me. With two or more kids in USA you essential force your children into wage slavery by goin…

Where did you get that 3k USD a month expense per kid from?

Post by doener » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 3:35 PM UTC

b3orn wrote: post #34

roenxi wrote: post #9

The problem Europe has isn't that they lack money, the problem is that all the things US tech companies do to get ahead are illegal in Europe. Out of FAANG, European regulators are decidedly against the F/G and probably have reservations about at least one of the As. I wouldn't feel off guard if it turns out Netflix were impractical in the EU due to challenges both regulatory and linguistic.

There have been quite a few social networks in Europe, some of which were more or less direct copies of Facebook at the time. Their decline started around the time Facebook became popular in there. There have been european streaming services years before Netflix was available there and there still are some, mostly owned by TV corporations. I think a lot of european startups focused to much on their starting country,…

Post by Jensson » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 4:16 PM UTC

dagw wrote: post #47

mschuster91 wrote: post #23

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> People rarely make 80k/year here and everything here is expensive af. The thing is, you earn less on paper than in the US, but your total cost of living (and thus, your "available" income) is way lower, too: - healthcare is cheap and universally available, no need to stuff away money in HSAs to account for a sudden 100k$ bill from a broken leg or a million dollar bill from cancer - public education for your childre…

way less commute expenses I doubt that, or at least it is very dependent on where you live. Both cars, gas and parking (as most employers in the US seem to offer free parking for employees) is generally much cheaper in the US. And while most places in Europe have (more or less) working public transport it is quite expensive. In the US I've used public transport in New York City, Chicago and Washington DC and they all…

Post by CalRobert » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 5:12 PM UTC

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That's really interesting. I'm naturalised now and we've considered moving to Finland because Ireland's schools seem inferior. among other reasons. One problem is that we've heard it's very hard to make friends, would you say that's true? We've been lucky to build a great friend network here. Incidentally I bought a Muurikka from a Finnish friend last summer and it's the most amazing thing I've ever cooked with. I do…

Piva00 covered the making friends aspect well. On top of that, integrating, learning and making friends in Finnish is playing life on hard level. There are also very few English language schools in Finland.