Had crazy fun the last 12h using @emdashsh. Garmin dashboards are ugly, so i've built & hosted my own. The speed u can get with parallel worktrees + some scaffolding is staggering
Lovable: 100M ARR in 8 months, yet another Delaware 🇪🇺 success story: Delaware is the unofficial 28th EU Member State.
If the upcoming EU Inc. legislation ends up diluted with lots of "buts" and maybes, we will keep seeing the @patrickc and @antonosika of the next decade continuing to incorporate where VCs feel comfortable investing money: certainly, not in Europe.
This week I consulted for incorporating an Italian startup: despite the law, not all public notaries support the procedure. Directives don’t work. Besides: the same existence of the public notary function for startups is an anachronistic nonsense.
The real necessity is a serious, EU-level regulation. We need to take Draghi’s proposal, the EU Inc. proposal, as is, and implement it.
If you want to contribute to avoiding a diluted and ineffective version of this proposal coming into existence: leave your feedback here, directly to the legislator currently collecting public feedback. Link in the first comment.
Follow also @euinc_petition and @andreasklinger.
Thanks dEUlaware.
The EU has a once-in-a-generation chance to deliver on a bold new measure with the potential to vastly improve life for scores of startup founders, operators and investors.
But Europe risks Europe-ing itself out of the opportunity.
https://t.co/a6MyrHoEAw
EU-Inc is close to the finishing line (of the first stage) 🇪🇺
All the politicians in Brussel want "something like it". It's the #1 item on the commission's strategy. Now the hard part is to make sure the politicians have the ambition to get the details right.
You can have the same goals, but if you stack-rank priorities differently, don't understand details, or simply lack political ambition you easily end up with something useless.
We will need your help – now and over the next weeks.
First up, I wrote up a quick primer that gets you up to speed with everything that happened so far and WHICH details are important to get right.
It also gives a bit of insight into the repeating discussions we constantly have with Brussels and member states.
If we as European startup scene get this right, and implement EU-Inc cleanly – as something that startups can actually use – we will create the biggest leapfrog improvement for startups and tech-innovation in Europe in our lifetime.
Here the details: https://t.co/MOqfZaQnmM
Let's get this done.
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With socialism gaining traction in the U.S., 1 reason is that young people are graduating into limited job prospects and lifelong debt
… all while the institutions that sold them the dream face zero accountability.
So I'm going to resurface my proposal to solve this $1.73 trillion market aka the world's most inefficient government-backed market
Today:
* Sellers (colleges) face zero consequences for failure
* Buyers (students) can't discharge debt through bankruptcy
* Taxpayers foot the bill for defaults
Two simple market reforms would fix this:
* Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy
* Require universities to underwrite 80% of student loans and eat losses
This would instantly:
→ Force colleges to care about graduate outcomes
→ Kill predatory programs that create no value
→ Drive down tuition costs naturally
→ Protect low-income students from exploitation
→ Create real accountability without complex regulations
When cars are defective, manufacturers pay for repairs or recall them.
But when degrees don't deliver, universities walk away.
Why do we let universities keep selling $200,000 "lemons" that don't work?
Time to bring market discipline to higher education.
Interested in why this would work in detail?
Read my full analysis (linked in next tweet)
And before you comment about moral hazard, read the essay.
Wooop! Episode 3 of Europe's Most Ambitious Startup is here!! 🇪🇺🔥
This time, I am visiting a company in Berlin that's hell-bend to become the world's #1 inventor of modern materials using robotic labs and AI.
Their first mission?
Tackle climate change by generating better catalysts used for pretty much every important process towards net-zero. But ultimately the sky is the limit and even materials in your future phones might be based on top of their discovery.
We go live inside their office and lab and see what they do. How it works and talk with their founder Alex and Marcus how they plan to 200x the world's output in material discovery!
Dunia AI – Europe's Most Ambitious Startup – Episode now live on Youtube
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You know your civilization messed up big time when the hardest part of doing anything is getting permission to do it.
We should be fighting nature, physical law, entropy, etc, not government rules and bureaucracy.
Some updates on @the_mirror_ai 🪞
Quick background first: I built Mirror AI during late nights and red-eye flights as a side project because “just-chat” bots felt lazy.
The goal has been to create an LLM playground that plugs into your digital world so it can actually do things, search online, move files, send messages etc... while an LLM drives the logic.
Less talk, more actions.
A few friends and I have been using it to make our lives easier, and today I thought I would open it to the world.
Reality check: it is still a scrappy pet project, so you might find some rough edges. If you would like to help smooth them out, hit me up.
I might also open source the project in the coming weeks to make it accessible to all. So stay tuned.
Link and additional examples below ⬇️