Telegram is the most popular messenger in urban Ukraine. After a decade of misleading marketing and press, most ppl there believe it’s an “encrypted app” The reality is the opposite-TG is by default a cloud database w/ a plaintext copy of every msg everyone has ever sent/recvd.

⚠️Putin receives income of $700m per day exporting fossil fuels to the world. Money he uses to finance his war machine. 🛑We call for a complete economic blockade banning imports from Russia, including oil & gas, and investments! #StandWithUkraine

Putin's war on Ukraine has entered its next phase, one of destruction and slaughter of civilians. It is also a part of Putin's World War, a war on the civilized world of international law, democracy, and any threat to his power, which he declared long ago. 1/13

After months of hard work, and a rewarding collaboration with 10 leading Belgian startup law firms, we're proud to present: the S1 Convertible. 📄 Say what? The #S1Convertible is a standardised convertible loan agreement (CLA) for early-stage funding of Belgian startups.

🤯🤯Well this is something else. GPT-4 passes basically every exam. And doesn't just pass... The Bar Exam: 90% LSAT: 88% GRE Quantitative: 80%, Verbal: 99% Every AP, the SAT...

Our revised country ranking on stock options is out. UK is moving ⬆️ the ranks after the introduction of a new scheme that benefits scale ups (250+ employees). Belgium and Germany languishing at the bottom of our ranking (but hopefully not for much longer!)

Extremely excited to announce the launch of Sirona Technologies Sirona Technologies, our direct air capture startup on a mission to remove CO2 from the air to fight climate change.

It feels like in just ten years, EU bodies have transformed from "our best hope for a sincere guarantor of global human rights" into "authoritarian cabal strenuously advocating for the planetary, machine-enforced restriction of basic human liberty." EU friends: What happened?

🚨 “Al Shifa hospital will soon run out of fuel and therefore electricity” - Guillemette Thomas, MSF medical coordinator in Palestine, talks about the risk of death that patients at Al Shifa hospital face due to the lack of electricity in #Gaza.

.Syndicate One, a prominent angel investment group composed of some of the biggest names in Belgian tech, has completed an initial €4.8 million close of its debut fund, after opening its capital to external investors for the first time in 2023 🇧🇪 🚀eu-startups.com/2024/01/brusse…

Massive congrats to the Cosmic Aerospace team for raising a $4.5 million seed round for their zero-emissions, all-electric passenger aircraft! With a 1,000-km range, this zero-emission aircraft could cater to up to 50% of flights worldwide! linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Eric Schmidt says it's going to be rare to see the successes in Europe that you see in America and the UK: "The fundamental reason is that they can't get the capital and Europe's regulatory structure is so prohibitive It's really sad because the European talent pool is amazing,

Two weeks ago we released Reflect on Apple's App Store - it’s been a disaster. Initially, we used TestFlight to distribute our iOS app, which worked well and allowed us to quickly iterate and ship updates. However, there was a cap on the number of users we could have.

Par quel mystère le pays de France peut-il être présenté du matin au soir comme un enfer libéral où les inégalités “explosent” tandis que le pouvoir d’achat s’effondre, la misère s’étend et que des foules affamées errent dans les décombres d’un système social en ruines ?

Imagine you own a large apartment complex. France says, "It is a legal requirement to put microphones in every room and let us listen." You say, "No, people should be able to have private conversations." They arrest you. The digital equivalent just happened to Pavel Durov.

If America had 1 percentage point lower growth per quarter since 1980, it would be about as poor as Mexico is today. Growth is the most precious quantity in the world and without it most of us simply wouldn't exist.

🇪🇺 eu/acc A few weeks ago Mario Draghi asked my recommendations for his report that came out today about European competitiveness I had a call with him and summarized my problems with doing business in the EU I wrote this which is included in the report presented to the

In a few hours we’re in 2025. EU and Member States should ask themselves: 1- does this law or concept still make sense ? Do they help build the future? Example: Like notaries :pre-democracy (back to absolute monarchies times), pre-digital, pre-AI and anti-digital. Should they

WOW this hit hard! Enjoy every minute! It goes in a blink 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

4 years ago, on 22/2/22, we launched Syndicate One to elevate the Belgian tech ecosystem. 🇧🇪 Today, 2 unicorns later, we announce the €22M oversubscribed first close of our new fund! 🦄🦄 We dedicate this fund to you, Belgian founders out there. Let’s build! 🚀