Measuring things at @spindl.

My FID is lower than all but 52 of you.

.@antonio, it took me half an hour of my European sun-sitting and cappuccino-enjoying time to create this info graphic, so I expect an apology for spreading misinformation https://i.imgur.com/4hoGyyw.png

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Except that’s not the relevant stat. It’s average age

Yeah, my graphic hides the fact that the European population pyramid is top heavy (that was intentional). But anyways, these data suggest that our active labor force is significantly bigger than that of the US. But sure Dan, you can zeihan-forecast that there'll be a demographic collapse soon, please go ahead 😆

Yeah I've had this argument in other places too and actually let me straight up agree with you: All innovation first takes place in the US and here is why IMO:

It has the most English speakers and highest disposable income (aka the best market to launch stuff)

https://warpcast.com/timdaub/0xd17981

I'm no expert in that stuff, but I think there's tons of less-sexy industry stuff that EU is investing. I mean Germany dumped billions in renewables and infrastructure as a European Transit hub. As an entrepreneur, I think you can agree that one of those bets may eventually yield returns. It's not stale, just different

Also maybe this is silly, but in European cities we now have high quality food delivery to your doorstep with e-bikes within 15-20 minutes (Flink, Gorillaz). This has been a game changer for many. I think the US has it with Doordash too. But they fuckup the order, drive cars and it takes way longer.

btw TheDAO was built by a Berliner company too (SlockIt)

Since Spotify, what’s the most interesting thing that’s come out of Europe.

Note: plenty of interesting things from Europeans living / working in the US

Europeans are great; EU is sclerotic

cf. GPT