Wolfe: Europe Is Screwed by Demographics and Failure to Assimilate
Josh Wolfe · Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. · More or Less Podcast · Aug 14, 2026 · at 55:05
Josh Wolfe, co-founder of Lux Capital, discusses global geopolitical and societal decay with host Sam Lessin on More or Less.
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“I think that Europe is fucked, and there are bright lights of amazing entrepreneurs that are doing the very thing that Europe has historically not done, which is risk taking. The floor for Europe is higher than the US, so people do not fall through that, but the ceiling is never been that high, and I think that there are companies that are breaking through that, but I think Europe is screwed mostly for demographics and influx largely because political positions of people that are unwilling to assimilate. It is destroying society.”
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