European Union
also referred to as: eu · the eu
11 statements across 9 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Adam Thierer · said 84 times in 26 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Marc Andreessen (17), Lisa Hawk (16), Steven Sinofsky (9), Katherine Boyle (6), Ben Horowitz (5), Alex Rampell (4), Oren Cass (3), Vlad Tenev (2)
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2026 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2025 20 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
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- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2023 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2019 36 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
- a16z Podcast | What to Know about GDPR
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- a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
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- a16z Podcast | The Two Big Problems With Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
- a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
- a16z Podcast | Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2019 →
Everything said about European Union, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Thierer: European regulation prevented the growth of major internet companies
“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…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Rampell: EU regulatory hostility toward US tech giants is driven by jealousy
“I think the EU is very jealous that Google's not a European company. I think they're jealous that Apple's not a European, like, Google is bad in Europe. In my personal opinion, I don't think they're nearly the monopolist that Microsoft was like in the late nin…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Hawk: GDPR applies to any global company processing EU personal data
“Well, in legal terms, there's a thing called long-arm jurisdiction, and this is probably one of the longest of the long-arm jurisdictions, and what I mean by that is a situation where a local court can actually assert jurisdiction over someone in another state…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Sinofsky: Companies should adopt EU privacy rules as global baseline
“The US just chose not to make laws and regulations that are nearly as all encompassing as these EU ones. But often what happens is it's just better to just pick that as the standard by which to do, because it's the higher bar to the higher threshold.”
Aug 2, 2023 bearish
Mar 13, 2024 bearish
Apr 2, 2024 bullish
Horowitz: France resists EU AI rules to protect local startup Mistral
“France turns out to be leading a revolution in Europe on AI regulatory, where they're basically telling the EU to pound sand you know, and a large reason because they have a company there, Mistral, and, you know, they, it's a national, national jewel for the c…”
Nov 21, 2025 bullish