Seton-Rogers: Europe lacks executive talent to scale startups from $50M to $500M
Sean Seton-Rogers · 20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital · Sep 2, 2015 · at 14:41
Sean Seton-Rogers, founding partner at PROfounders Capital, explains why Europe has historically produced fewer mega-scale tech companies than the US.
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“Europe's got great founders. It's got the capital now. It's got the great technical expertise as well. But what we don't have, we haven't had people that have been through big companies multiple times and can take companies from fifty million in revenue to five hundred million in revenue.”
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