Michael Jackson's Linkedin Analytics

“The EU is going overboard on tech regulation. It’s stifling innovation and it’s a massive risk for Europe…more companies will be forced to do the same [as Bird]”. Job van der Voort Ooof. 😬 Fwiw, I know of more European deeptech companies looking at moving their HQ out of Europe now than I can remember over the last twenty or so years. It’s such an issue that the EC and EIB have launched a study on the reasons why. It’s partly because of overregulation, and partly because of a lack of funding and customers amongst other things. Regardless, Europe needs to do a better job of listening to its entrepreneurs and remove friction points that are impeding their success. https://lnkd.in/eieps_Kr

"Almost the entire world got it wrong. The amount of computation we need at this point as a result of agentic AI and as a result of reasoning is easily 100 times more than we thought we needed this time last year." - Jensen Huang The world needing 100 times more compute than what NVIDIA thought a year ago is a good thing for Nvidia. https://lnkd.in/eQkf-s9x

“The paper published on Wednesday marks the biggest development in fusion technology since the Tokamaks breakthrough a decade ago”. 👏🏻 ⚛️ Proxima Fusion is ambitious science with massive potential. Europe needs more founders and companies taking big swings, and that’s exactly what Francesco Sciortino and crew are doing. Thrilled to be part of it via Wilbe. https://lnkd.in/eqdSQztn

"Shenzhen is the center of the world’s hardware manufacturing industry because it has workers rubbing shoulders with academics rubbing shoulders with investors rubbing shoulders with engineers... ...and you have a more hustle-type culture because it’s so much harder to maintain technological moats and technological differentiation, because people are so competitive in these sorts of spaces." Great points on the importance of deeptech ecosystems needing critical mass AND hustle culture. You're simply not going to have a strong deeptech ecosystem without a top STEM university and an ample supply of workers and investment money. Europe needs to learn that overfragmentation is a hinderance to scaling and success. Also, hard work matters. As much as hustle porn deserves a bad reputation, so does obsessing with - and even fetishising - work/life balance. I've never seen anyone be incredibly successful without putting in the work...usually a LOT of work. Denying this is just as delusional as those who think that waking up at 4am to work 30 hour days is the secret to success. https://lnkd.in/dXXHb5qW

Crazy stat: 72% of companies that were unicorns by the end of very frothy 2021 haven’t raised an up round since. 😳 A lot of LPs should be having some hard talks with their GPs. Slide via Carta.