Comment by imiric

2 years ago

It's only a nightmare if you are an adtech company whose revenue relies on tracking users, and have a history of violating their privacy.

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taneq  2 years ago

While that's usually my line too, in this case it's also a nightmare if you're selling access to an AI and it unexpectedly starts barfing up EU citizens' private data verbatim that 'somehow' ended up in the training set.

pb7  2 years ago

It's a nightmare for anyone that isn't a tiny startup that flies under the radar. See: shocking lack of global-scale innovative companies made in Europe.

usef-  2 years ago

I hope you're right. But do you have an alternative explanation for why there's seemingly far fewer companies coming from the EU?

  • kolinko  2 years ago

    Language barriers and local markets. 95% startups here build things for local markets and fail to scale to the global ones. In the meantime US startups scale to ~1bn people almost instantly.