Europe

“25,000 people work here. It's like acres and acres and acres. Like you can just walk around this city for like, you know, hours and just only see Italian, French, and German architecture.”

“The reason that I'm bullish overall on, I'm not bullish on the European focus. . I mean, I guess that if he's gonna invest the whole, if he's gonna invest the full four hundred million in Europe, that's concerning.”

“Yeah, the craziest one who we could overlay this is, like, out of Europe's, like, top 100 firms, like, all of them, or 95% of them, were created over a hundred years ago.”

“The biggest risk right now with the way that Europe is run is that they're trying to destroy the legacy car manufacturers by nannying them”

“It really captures, like, why there's no hundred billion dollar company in Europe that was started in the last, like, 50 years or something like that.”

“In fact, Europe outgrew the U S in iPhone sales and they don't have Apple intelligence at all with the exception of the UK for a couple of weeks in December.”

“Trades would be a blow to Arno's empire, whose largest market is the U.S., equal in size to all of Europe combined.”

“Ferrari is now worth. Ninety billion dollars. That's two figures, two figs. That's two figure AI robotics companies. You take two of them. You get a Ferrari making it the most valuable car company in Europe, despite Delivering just 13,752 vehicles last year.”

“The more made in America we become, the more made in national prosperity the European nations will become. And I think due to the nature of Europe, that will end up being pretty fragmented. The French government's going to want to Buy from French companies. Th…”

“The thing that I will say though, is at least the biggest check that I've ever, you know, sort of led is like a net new, you know, portfolio company investment. So not just like follow ons, obviously we like we've deployed mega checks in a ramp, but that was a…”

“There aren't a ton of like super competent players. And so, you know, I wouldn't say that like the quality of what we get, you know, sort of inbound at least at founders fund is, you know, something, you know, super high in Europe.”

“I would say that Europe has solidified completely. There's definitely not this kind of isolationist element of like, oh, Spanish versus Italian versus whatever. And Jesus, even the English and the French are getting on these days. That goes to show just how mu…”

“So we have so much work to do here in the US that we'd love to support our allied partners in Europe and the, you know, the Middle East and countries like Japan re-industrialize as well. And they often have the same kind of core skilled labor problem. We've go…”

“I think really what you're seeing in Europe is two warring tribes. One is the people that You know, set their energy policy based off the poor advice of a 14 year old Swedish girl and gave all the leverage to Russian oil and gas. And then you've got your kind …”

“They spend three times less on average per capita on healthcare, but two times more per capita on food in Europe.”

“Kellogg's makes fruit loops with carrot juice and watermelon juice and ships them across the border to Canada and ships them over to Europe. They make the same product with petroleum based dyes here in the U S.”

“I feel like their diplomatic system like knows how to play the kleptocracy game much better than Canada or Europe. You know, they got their reps and sets when it comes to dealing with, you know, family dynasties and whatnot.”

“The most capable military in Europe right now is the Ukrainian military.”

“I think it's fair to say, obviously I'm biased because I work in an American software company, but we are the best in the world, like by 10 orders of magnitude when it comes to software development in this country, and that's just not something that Europe doe…”

“Intel detailed dramatic steps to revive its sagging fortunes, outlining layoffs for 15% of its workforce, and scrapping plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on new chip facilities in Europe.”

“Like we have 10 X growth in America compared to Europe, same people, same products, same everything.”

“Compared to Europe, like no tech industry. Everyone rich was born rich basically, or with almost no exceptions.”

“Like we have 10 X growth in America compared to Europe, same people, same products, same everything.”

“One percent in Europe for Facebook, by the way. That's the stat. They all have the option to pay for Facebook, for ad free Facebook, and only one percent pay.”

“With AI maniacs, I'm going younger and weirder, and I've also noticed Europe is doing pretty well on the AI maniacs metric.”

“I think if Europe starts a major trade war with China, Europe will lose.”