Emmanuel Schalit

Europe’s Tiny Balls 🔵🟢 One of the striking revelations in the Draghi Report on European non-competitiveness is number of $100B European companies forming in the past 50 years — zero. MIT’s McAfee took the analysis a step further, lowering the threshold to $10B. Spotify is the biggest new company to come out of Europe in the past 50 years. Bubble size is public company market cap. Blue balls are non-tech companies. (And yes, Elon has morphed Tesla from blue to green IMHO, so the big balls are truly greener in America) Overall, the U.S. is 70x the EU. One contributing factor to European constriction: the squeeze of over-tight regulations. As Draghi says on p.2 of the report, “innovative companies that want to scale up in Europe are hindered at every stage by inconsistent and restrictive regulations.”

Exciting news - this is a *huge* milestone for us. Congratulations to the entire team at @localstack,👏 and a big thank you to all our users, customers, community & partners. 🙌 Super stoked to take LocalStack to the next level, with support from @notablecap @CRV & @heavybit. 🚀

LocalStack raises $25M to help developers emulate and test cloud apps locally tcrn.ch/3Z5VIfu

Meryl Streep at the United Nations: A female cat has more freedoms than a woman in Afghanistan, "A cat may go sit on her front stoop and feel the sun on her face," Streep said. "She may chase a squirrel into the park. A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan."

THIS, cc @elonmusk for your consideration: “𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴, 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴. 𝘈𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘖𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘖’𝘕𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴, 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬.” - Nathan Gardels at @NoemaMag

Vice President Harris: Why don't you tell the 800,000 Polish Americans right here in Pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor, and what you think is a friendship with a dictator who would eat you for lunch?