How Europe lost its tech dominance to America.
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0:00 Intro
0:18 EU vs U.S.
tech company market cap
0:33 Irish brothers start Stripe in America
2:07 Spotify enters the U.S.
market
2:46 Europe’s troublesome regulations
3:25 Elon Musk’s work ethic
4:00 EU’s new battery law
5:31 EU’s new AI Act
6:46 Europe’s lagging space industry
8:07 Today's sponsor: Brilliant
Select broll sourced from Getty
Sources:
Patrick and John Collison image sourced from Stripe
Peter Thiel image (edited by Newsthink): Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Collison blog post: patrickcollison.com/post/stripe-ireland
Allied Irish Bank: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ulster bank: Михал Орела, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Goldman Sachs: 2211473abhijithsaravanan, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Elon Musk’s Vator News interview (used with permission): vator.tv/news
Category : Behind the Scenes