A bunch of those started 150+ years ago, when European unions essentially didn't exist.

Ok, lets remove those from my list.

Spotify, SAP, Skype, Unity, Sitecore, OutSystems, Vodafone, ...

Naming 6 random European companies doesn't prove anything. Every country has tech companies. How many exactly doesn't really matter in this comparison, what matters is revenues and market cap.

Consider that the US tech sector is worth significantly more than the tech sectors of EU + UK + Switzerland + Norway combined. It's not even a competition. To put it simply, the US hosts most of the largest tech companies by market cap and revenues (FAANGMAULs, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Quallcomm, etc.).

/QED

Well they need the money to make up for being left alone to care for themselves.

Do you think tech companies are more likely to come out of Europe or the US?

Moving goal posts, but yeah, Europe lacks a SV with venture capitalists raining money on every crazy idea, with Tony Stark like feudal lords pushing their minions to sleep in office with promises of free drinks and pizza, hoping to capitalize on the startup being sold.

Thankfully.

Not moving goalposts. Read my original post.

Examples were given, we enjoy our unions, thank you very much.

I am curious, is putting up with the occasional self-obsessed ceo not worth it?

For example Tesla has a market value greater than every European carmaker combined, having gone from approximately 0 annual car deliveries to over a million in just a few years while revolutionizing electric travel. Or with space x developing reusable rockets that have utterly transformed the industry. These companies will contribute to economic dynamism and wealth creation for years and decades.

Macron said of American space companies, “Unfortunately they’re not European, but they took a bet”. Perhaps at a certain level you need people with lots of money who are willing to risk it

Not for me, I have better things to do with my life.

No. They keep whatever actual wealth they might end up creating - if and when they even manage that - and the only thing that trickles down from them is their ego.

I prefer not being subject to their whims.