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0:00 Intro
0:18 EU vs U.S. tech company market cap
0:33 Irish brothers start Stripe in America
2:07 Spotify enters the U.S. market
2:46 Europe’s troublesome regulations
3:25 Elon Musk’s work ethic
4:00 EU’s new battery law
5:31 EU’s new AI Act
6:46 Europe’s lagging space industry
8:07 Today's sponsor: Brilliant

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Patrick and John Collison image sourced from Stripe

Peter Thiel image (edited by Newsthink): Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons

Patrick Collison blog post: https://patrickcollison.com/post/stri...

Allied Irish Bank: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons

Ulster bank: Михал Орела, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons

Goldman Sachs: 2211473abhijithsaravanan, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons

Elon Musk’s Vator News interview (used with permission): https://vator.tv/news