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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by davedx on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:57AM (#23427466)
Yeah in the Netherlands here, and I’ve spent some time recently integrating a German fintech vendor. The cross of new and modern and old beurocratic way of doing things has been almost dystopian and really slowed everything down. Contrast to similar vendors in the UK is quite something.
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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by dukeyukey on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:02AM (#23428626)
Can you go into more details on this? I've only worked closely with UK/USA companies and I'm really interested how they compare to German/French ways of doing things. Does the Netherlands more closely align to the Uk/USA on this?
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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by j4yav on Friday June 05, 2020 @12:26PM (#23430314)
In my experience the Netherlands is quite a bit like the US. Not as much VC available, but businesses tend to be pretty agile and willing to pivot to get results. All normal day to day government interaction is digital and works well. ING is a good example of a very big Dutch company that seems to do pretty well with innovation.
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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by davedx on Friday June 05, 2020 @12:38PM (#23430452)
Germans have a lot of legal requirements, red tape, old ways of doing things. Netherlands and UK are more streamlined, more parts of govt and daily life are digital, bank systems are more modern.
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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by goatinaboat on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:45PM (#23432239)
When Europe does do fintech it’s just really sleazy and exploitative, like Revolut, so better off without.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23416169

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