Europe's tech scene - second best?
summary
Europe presents a decentralized cluster model—Berlin, Paris, London, Stockholm—rather than a Silicon Valley clone, and companies point to concrete metrics: Booking.com runs 1,000 experiments a day and gets nearly half of bookings via mobile; BlaBlaCar operates in 22 countries on a cost‑sharing long‑distance model with only one major regulatory bump in a decade; Farfetch sources ~80% of supply from continental Europe while one third of demand is US; the EU unveils a €1bn fund‑of‑funds to enable €50–60m rounds, with public money capped at 25%.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:10Europe vs Silicon Valley comparison
- 2:55Startup ecosystem shifts in Europe
- 5:01Fashion tech and Farfetch model
- 7:10New EU venture capital fund
- 10:23Regulation and innovation in Europe
- 16:02Brexit impact on startups
- 18:13Digital single market benefits
- 21:24Global expansion and unicorns
- 22:50Closing remarks
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