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Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:10 K.R. Shridhar It's so unlike the EU where practically new companies have rarely come up, come on and displaced existing old, old companies.
- ▶ 1:01:37 K.R. Shridhar I think Europe is waking up faster than I would have expected because of AI, and I'm optimistic hearing both from the EU and UK about the changes they want to make.
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:36 Patrick Forquer So APJ, India, EU, the UK, and the US.
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:29 Tobi Lütke Again, I, I think Europe, especially now that the UK has left the European Union, needs to double down on Prussian, uh, uh, economic theory, uh, of Friedrich List and his, uh, co-conspirators and just define excellent games that create…
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:39 Harry Stebbings If I, if I were to make you head of the EU, Mark, uh, what would you change
99% of Drone Companies Will Die & Why Anduril’s Products Aren’t an Ethics Debate | Matthew Steckman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:23 Matthew Steckman The, the challenge in Europe is it's not, it's not like a European Union in defense spend, right?
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:17 Sebastian Siemiatkowski We have increased because we need to stay competitive, uh, for talent and talent today can move between US and EU pretty easily with the help of companies.
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:05 Mati Staniszewski I know this is, it's, it has a huge set of repercussions, but I would, I would try to follow exactly how us is approaching a lot of AI related regulation and just implement the same or let like create another state in, in, in European…
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:21 Martin Mignot One of the decisive factors in Revolut's success is the ability to passport across, across the European Union. 3 times in the scene
Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:05 Vlad Tenev I would say that in the EU, it's, it's, it's pretty clear. 4 times in the scene
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 47:58 Harry Stebbings EU AI Act has been really prohibitive. 2 times in the scene
Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:05 Scott Galloway So I think it's a balance, and I'm not sure, I wonder if the EU is too regulated and America is not regulated enough.
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:36 Johannes Reck and then obviously in the European Union.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:28 Larry Aschebrook They introduced us to a gentleman named Johan Berkust, who's, who was at the end, I think the treasurer, and then went on to Bolt, where we also became an investor in the EU ride-hailing business.
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:40 Jason Lemkin U.S. companies, uh, 90 companies worth over a billion, worth 2.5 trillion, and EU only three hundred and thirty three billion, right? 2 times in the scene
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:30 Severin Hacker So again, as a founder, I can like, okay, I can work with the EU regulation on AI, which is, I think, some of the dumbest regulation ever written.
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 58:34 Harry Stebbings Is the EU fucking itself for AI regulation?
Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:47 Julia Hoggett I think in part, um, because of the strength of our role as the locus of the EU single market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:14 Harry Stebbings Do you think there should be a unified EU market? 2 times in the scene
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:31 Harry Stebbings If we, just being blunt, EU has hired 1500 people for AI safety. 2 times in the scene
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:32 Harry Stebbings You know, I was speaking to someone the other day and the EU has supposedly hired 1500 people for AI safety and policing.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:08 Harry Stebbings If you were to advise the EU today on Europe stance, what would you say?
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:03 Reid Hoffman It's part of what the European Union's about.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:59 Torsten Reil Um, and then, and then it starts becoming more complex in the middle, because you have some countries, um, uh, even in the EU, where, um, in the past they haven't been kind of ranked that highly.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:32 Matt Grimm The EU member countries are spending almost three hundred billion on top of that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:22 Matt Grimm And then EU was 295 on top of that. 3 times in the scene
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:39 Vlad Tenev So we've, we've launched crypto in the EU a few months ago.
Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:27 Maria Angelidou And so, um, I think that's actually a competitive disadvantage for EU based companies.
Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:42 Arvind Narayanan And I've been gratified that, uh, these are topics that, um, at least in my experience, US regulators are considering, and I believe in the UK, the CMA, the Competition and Markets Authority as well, and certainly in the EU, 3 times in the scene
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:57 Harry Stebbings Uh, EU is also particularly talented when it comes to regulation. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:34 Ethan Mollick That would be something I would want the EU to be doing a lot more of too, is like, okay,
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:48 Delian Asparouhov Will they want to stay in the EU? 2 times in the scene
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:52 Arthur Mensch In the US, in the EU, it has been critical as well.
Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:47 Harry Stebbings Christian, what would you change about the EU tech ecosystem?
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:04 Harry Stebbings Like, when we think about the taxation policies towards US, China, other nations outside of the EU, and when we think about regulatory on M&A competition, what could we do to change it, and what would you suggest?
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:19 Shyam Sankar The European process is even more slow because there's an even greater emphasis on how do I show fairness across all of the EU states.
- ▶ 27:24 Shyam Sankar And so we should really, like, and I think if you, if you, you could just juxtapose the European procurement process, which, which I've seen, the U.S. process, and, and, you know, maybe alternatives, and I'd say the European process is…
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:00 Brian Halligan Now it's like a good 15 months to get through the US, get through the UK, get through the EU.
Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:52 Shu Nyatta Colombia is having a challenge now, but we're long-term bullish on Colombia, but if you really had to focus, it's Brazil and Mexico, and in a sense, I suppose that would be like Germany and France, you know, if you want to pick the EU…
Douwe Kiela: Why Data Size Matters More Than Model Size; Why Open Source Isn't Going to Win | E1032 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:10 Harry Stebbings Um, I'm, I'm quite concerned about the EU's regulatory stance around AI. 3 times in the scene
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:13 Harry Stebbings If I put you in the Hague or in the EU and you were given the regulatory powers over the next five years of AI in Europe, what would you do?
Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:46 Harry Stebbings I agree, and I think it's compounded by our recent regulation on AI, which has meant that, you know, for the EU countries, it's practically impossible to use large language models efficiently, um, which is why Brexit may have been a better…
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:39 William Hockey Both in the US or the EU, Pakistan or wherever, because people are going to want to build new companies and financial services, and you do that by lowering the barrier to entry.
- ▶ 36:20 William Hockey If you look at the crypto community, the EU, China, everybody has kind of made these compelling arguments that say,
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:51 Tony Fadell But the governments, especially in the EU, as you know, are now going really hard after ESG.
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:41 Fabrice Grinda So in Greece, in oh eight, oh nine, the crisis of confidence in the debt of Greece almost brought down the entire financial system crashing down and like almost brought down the EU. 2 times in the scene
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 34:10 Fabrice Grinda So in Greece in oh eight, oh nine, the crisis of confidence in the debt of Greece almost brought down the entire financial system crashing down and like almost brought down the EU. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 18:37 Avichal Garg It's not in Europe and the EU.
20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- ▶ 39:11 Dayna Grayson He's also pointed out that GDPR is, in fact, a, uh, European Union, EU regulation and, 2 times in the scene
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 10:10 James Wise The largest GDP block in the world is the European Union. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 057: The Investor Checklist with Nicolas Wittenborn, VC @ Point Nine Capital
- ▶ 3:15 Nico Wittenborn So, um, what I ended up doing was looking, um, on eBay, and I started importing, um, iPhones from, from the UK, where they were actually a bit cheaper, and because we just had started to have the European Union, there was no tolls on it,…