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every year anyone John Collison 70Dan Sundheim 11Zach Abrams 5Tony Xu 4RJ Scaringe 4Dave Ricks 4Christina Cacioppo 3Charlie Songhurst 3Pieter Levels 2Marc Andreessen 2
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The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash
- ▶ 45:12 Tony Xu There's tens of millions of items literally inside, you know, these cities, whether it's in the US or different countries within Europe, other parts of the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:37 John Collison You talked about your European expansion. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:14 Tony Xu But yeah, no, I, I think, I think this, this, yeah, one of the things that's really interesting about some of the grocery stores, for example, in, um, European markets is, you know, prepared meals is a massive focus. 2 times in the scene
Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
- ▶ 12:57 Christina Cacioppo European enterprises. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:41 John Collison Are going up because Europe in particular is getting very strict about notifications and sometimes fines around these breaches. 3 times in the scene
Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara
- ▶ 54:34 John Collison In, well, legal is a complex term, has been available in Europe.
Stripe’s 2024 annual letter
- ▶ 20:52 John Collison European prosperity. 24 times in the scene
Stripe’s 2025 annual letter
- ▶ 12:27 John Collison And it's always tempting to reach for local explanations, you know, Japan's aging workforce, or Brexit, or Europe's energy mix, or all these kind of things.
- ▶ 25:18 John Collison Entrepreneurs in Europe can boost tepid economies with new tools, but only if well-intentioned yet counterproductive burdens such as the EU AI Act are curtailed.
Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
- ▶ 45:30 Ben Thompson Actually, this is one of my theories about why the Europeans are so gung-ho about data privacy and regulation is because they so often interact with European companies.
UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition
- ▶ 32:14 Merva Iqbal And I think more than ever, since my journey started in 20 year, 21 to now, I've seen the past year or so a real sort of togetherness with founders of like, actually, let's, let's build Europe great again.
Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly, on GLP-1s and the business of pharma
- ▶ 48:27 Dave Ricks Presumably, companies would look at the global opportunity, or at least the developed countries, and set a price that might be a little lower in the US than normal, because they want to sell to Europe, because there's more volume available.
- ▶ 54:51 Dave Ricks And I actually think that if we think of the funding mechanism in our country, but also in Europe and Europe's system has problems going forward. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:34 Dave Ricks What I would do is, um, if we want to sort of like an America first patent system, uh, or Europe first, um, we should do two things.
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 13:21 Zach Abrams Yeah, that's what, I mean, one of the things I'm most optimistic about is you have, like the financial world before, if you wanted to expand into a bunch of different countries, you had to uniquely build your US infrastructure, uniquely…
- ▶ 15:15 John Collison I don't, as a European, I'm not that unhappy holding euros.
- ▶ 19:17 Zach Abrams And so what is, what's basically happening is there's like a few folks who are, who are compliant in Europe, and they're stretching it to, you know, the, the, the regulatory requirements to meet their like specific needs. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:51 Henri Stern Are the closest things I see to like a European-style neobank working in the US.
Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
- ▶ 20:49 Casey Handmer Capital flows into solar panel manufacturing facilities in Southeast Asia or United States or Europe or whatever.
- ▶ 23:04 John Collison Maybe in Europe. 2 times in the scene
Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital on the art of public market investing
- ▶ 43:31 Dan Sundheim The U.S. and Europe are very different in this respect. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:35 Dan Sundheim Like, the European market opens, depending on the other table time, opens at three a.m., ok? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:43 Dan Sundheim And I would tell you, interestingly, that going back to the Europe comment, Siemens Energy and GE Vinova are basically the same company.
- ▶ 1:32:53 Dan Sundheim Um, they're not like tech companies like Google or Meta where they're just dominant, like, JPMorgan is dominant in the US, but like, Europe doesn't matter, like same thing with the European banks. 2 times in the scene
How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian
- ▶ 35:58 RJ Scaringe It would be really nice if the United States and Europe had one set of standards, yeah. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:32 John Collison Obviously the US is protected as a market, but as you think about winning other countries, say Europe. 3 times in the scene
Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later
- ▶ 1:32:16 Tobi Lütke It's a beautiful implementation of different implementation from the United States or from Europe of classical liberalism.
Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 2:03 Marc Andreessen And then pint, the, the thing about pint that's just really puzzling is that everything else in Europe is like, you know, like, it should be the, like, cheeky deciliter.
- ▶ 22:36 Charlie Songhurst East Coast and wide Europe hasn't generated to Silicon Valley, whereas, like, you know, you have Detroit, but then Korea and Japan copies it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:32 John Collison And this is where a European
- ▶ 2:01:58 Marc Andreessen You also see, and again, not to pick on specifics, but you also see this in these political parties, and you have a lot of this, you know, happening in Europe right now, where these parties come in, and they have, like, whatever, 60%…
A conversation with Lovable CEO Anton Osika
- ▶ 21:12 John Collison It's Europe is near and dear to my heart. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:23 John Collison Europe, invest or divest?
A Cheeky Pint with serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels (@levelsio)
- ▶ 0:00 Pieter Levels I think it's actually good that it's going so bad in Europe, because it's almost like the patient is so sick.
- ▶ 8:15 Pieter Levels I never left Europe before.
- ▶ 13:32 John Collison Yeah, but there aren't good products for Europeans, I feel like, uh, that's like less common.
- ▶ 15:26 John Collison Cause the ones that are set to like, you know, 72 degrees Fahrenheit or 22 degrees Celsius in Europe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:57 John Collison We're talking about European air conditioning. 14 times in the scene