Re:Kyutai AI research lab with a $330M budget that will make...
by JumpCrisscross on Sunday November 19, 2023 @12:18PM
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> What massive barriers are there?
Starting and scaling a business in Europe is harder than in America. This is true for fundamental reasons, like language and national borders. Itβs also true due to regulation and the culture of work and towards commerce in general.
Some of those come with reasonable tradeoffs, e.g. in respect of employee protections. Many do not, particularly when it comes to licensing, bureaucracy and the peculiar way most European tax law and regulation tries to compensate for its licensing and bureaucracy by adding more bureaucracy in front of a balancing subsidy.
Starting and scaling a business in Europe is harder than in America. This is true for fundamental reasons, like language and national borders. Itβs also true due to regulation and the culture of work and towards commerce in general.
Some of those come with reasonable tradeoffs, e.g. in respect of employee protections. Many do not, particularly when it comes to licensing, bureaucracy and the peculiar way most European tax law and regulation tries to compensate for its licensing and bureaucracy by adding more bureaucracy in front of a balancing subsidy.