Europe

“A lot of it is coming, for example, out of places like Europe and Asia, And actually it's not really centered in Silicon Valley, and I think that's partly why, is it's kind of a counter movement to what's happened.”

“Eventually, we might get to a place where we have an office here, hopefully run by folks that are in this community.”

“And for everyone here, there's just 30 or more in Silicon Valley.”

“China, which now has more smartphone users than the USA and Europe combined.”

“Europe. They're spending a billion dollars to try to develop elder robots.”

“Europe took a very heavy-handed, top-down approach to the data directives and privacy rules that made it almost impossible for innovators to really take hold there or really get any investment. And what, as a result, it's hard today to even name a major innova…”

“I think a lot of the most interesting thinking, and not yet turned into commercial propositions around Internet of Things stuff, is happening in the UK and in Europe or happening actually by Brits in San Francisco.”

“So I would say open data is another area where I think the UK and all Europe could be Continue to be a world leader.”

“The Skype mafia, I think, now is actually pretty active as investors and entrepreneurs, and that recycling of talent and capital is starting to happen.”

“Well, I mean, I think the list is pretty long of, you know, Spotify and Skype, and I mean, there's, yeah, there's a whole bunch of success stories. I think what probably hasn't happened yet is you don't have the mafias that have followed those yet necessarily.”

“Technology is, it's probably the technology hub for Europe and for the startup scene, but it's the regional hub for a bunch of other industries, especially industries that are being changed by technology, advertising, finance, the list is long, and I actually …”

“We're doing about 40 investments a year, so that puts us in quite the very active kind of investor role here.”

“Venture capital, I think, continues to be so regional. I mean, it's a terrible thing. It just doesn't sort of unify across you know, across Europe. And so scalability is limited, therefore, you know to a big reason because of that.”

“Instead of putting one data center for, you know, My, all, all audience, you know, user base, we need to build multiple data centers, and that kind of fragmentation and balkanization of data will continue, and that's going to be more and more difficult for clo…”

“The US and Canada put together are 47% of our daily active users, roughly 30% in Europe, 20% in Asia. Japan was our number two country, both for paid seats and daily active users, until it got dislodged by the UK and Germany.”

“The target country for Russia is of course, Ukraine. But now that Russia has built so many, is building so many new pipelines to Europe that circumvent Ukraine, Europe is building what are called reverse pipelines that take the gas that goes from Russia to Ger…”

“The further away you get from Syria, the more you see that it's really Syria's middle class that was able to flee into Europe, something that people don't realize watching The images of Syrian refugees arriving to Europe, which is an extremely difficult journe…”

“The first atlas was published in 1570 by Abraham Ortelius, and It was actually the best-selling book in Europe for years and years and years, and the reason it was so important to people was there were maps of the entire world in the book.”

“Here in America, it's been more about convenience and speed, while Europe has sort of, the convenience and speed is not as important as security.”

“It certainly is that way in Europe. I'm always amazed and slightly appalled that people think of technology in Europe as something that's done by very big companies. That's pretty good technology, but they don't get that this is a game of Positioning of buildi…”

“Others, like, let's say, India, that's, like, more of a civilization state. There's lots of different ethnic groups. India is more like Europe, you know? Like, the South Indian and North Indian are, like, historically as different as, like, you know, a Spaniar…”

“Europe is effectively funding the Russian war machine by purchasing Russian gas. And the reason they need to purchase Russian gas is because they stopped developing their own gas and they have been shutting down their own nuclear plants.”

“Europe, Europe persists in shooting itself, not just in the foot, but in the other foot and in the ankle and in the knee and in the gut. And they're just on this absolute frenzy to regulate and kill, you know, tech in Europe”

“Europe has basically made AI illegal. Like, they're regulating themselves to death. And so the smart AI people in Europe are moving to the US.”

“People focus Obsessively on the trade deficits and surpluses, on the imbalances, on the net amount, but basically the more important effect is the gross, the total amount of exporting that we're able to do, you know, and so in that sense, trade between us and …”

“Hurting Japan and Europe more than we hurt ourselves, but hurting both of us actually just lets China win. So it doesn't seem like a credible threat to me.”

“Like, we have worse outcomes in the United States than Europe does.”

“And we, I think 11 Labs wouldn't have existed if we weren't starting from Europe.”

“It seems clear that we're not in this globalized era, and perhaps it's gonna get much worse, and so investing in the foundation, in the open AI of Europe might be a good idea, and like, similarly, China being an entirely different, different world, and so ther…”

“Europe has created exactly zero companies from scratch in the last 50 years worth more than a hundred billion euro. We have created all of our trillion dollar companies from scratch in America in the last 50 years.”

“Europe is, is going to run the opposite, you know, test, which is they're going to try to prevent all this from happening, and again, I think the data's already in there which is they're, you know, they're, they've been falling very badly behind economically, …”