The Next Web… the transformation... No boring week in the Dutch tech ecosystem. Framer became the new unicorn, while at the same time we lost the only true tech conference in the Netherlands. The Dutch tech ecosystem is going through a transformation, and an identity crisis.

Yes! More of this! 🇪🇺💥

Change & Europe 🇪🇺 0. Status quo 1. A brave person (innovator) says what they think, regardless of what is popular. 2. New narrative gains traction and helps to unite. Still can be seen as polarises. 3. New narrative shapes public opinion and gets more momentum. Old

Image 1: How people use Chat GPT by conversation type. Image 2: Chat GPT disruption exciting solutions Input for: VC investment thesis, landscapes & TAM size. 🤓

Netherlands 🇳🇱& Media 📺& Distrust Technology 🤖 Why the political landscape is broken and trust is so low in the Netherlands? The evening news rarely tells a positive story about sustainable prosperity. Yet... it’s the evening news that shapes our collective future,

I bet no politician in Europe understands this: Nvidia’s market cap now equals 3.6% of the world’s GDP — and it’s racing toward 4%. It’s larger than the entire GDP of the UK, France, or Germany. For comparison: $4.2T vs. the Netherlands at $1.5T GDP. Just... wow. 🤯 What

Leading 🤖AI Nations by global AI compute distribution. 1. USA 🇺🇸 2. UAE 🇦🇪 3. Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Yes! The top 10 AI nations on the planet have a collective 496 AI clusters with a combined compute capacity equivalent to about 79 million NVIDIA H100 chips, according to the

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Learning, Pain, Failing. Failing isn’t the opposite of success. It’s the tuition you pay for wisdom. The faster you fail, the faster you learn. The deeper the pain, the deeper the change. No pain = no change. No failure = no growth. Fail forward. Feel it. Evolve.

Startup founders posting online they activated founder-mode' 🤡 youtu.be/T1A4CpaoeSA?si…

Lange weg te gaan..... 🤓

More of this in europe! 🇪🇺 Well done Denmark 🇩🇰

Europe's tech🇪🇺 & Foreign Acquisitions: We’re in the messy middle. Europe still lacks deep enough capital markets to finance major acquisitions like this and keep them under European control. But, blocking a sale right now would feel anti-entrepreneurial. Founders and

Why. Speed. Matters. It took ChatGPT 3 years to reach 800 million users. It took the internet 13 years to reach the same number. AI is changing our world fast. It will be everywhere before we even blink. And yet, our public leaders, especially in Europe, are still debating

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Europe 🇪🇺 & AI 🤖 “If we want to stay relevant in AI in Europe, we must stop talking about innovation and start enabling it, with speed, scale, and ambition” Europe has enormous potential, if we stop listening to the tired “Europe vs. the U.S. or China” narrative and instead

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The problem of the Netherlands & Scaleup capital ($100m rounds or more): In NL in Q3 205 we had one $100m round, Framer. Just one. See below the difference of other European countries. NL on place 10 if we look at scaleup capital rounds YTD.

Dutch elections. Follow the wisdom of the crowd.