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Companies like these should be highlighted the next time there's a discussion on HN about Europe's lack of startups and unicorns.
by dmitriid 5y ago
Companies like these should be highlighted the next time there's a discussion on HN about Europe's lack of startups and unicorns.
- dtech 5y agoThey are often mentioned in these context, along with Spotify, Adyen, SAP and a few others. It doesn't really fit the US-based narrative so is mostly ignored.
- strikelaserclaw 5y agoit was started 37 years ago and has a mkt cap of 350 bn. Not sure that qualifies as a startup, and neither does it serve as a counter pointer to "Europe's lack of startups and unicorns."
- ren_engineer 5y agoand they are based on research done by the United States which they licensed, hence why the US is able to block them from exporting to China. All the UV lithography research was done by the US decades ago https://www.eetimes.com/u-s-gives-ok-to-asml-on-euv-effort/ https://www.eetimes.com/u-s-gives-ok-to-asml-on-euv-effort/
- fhe 5y agothese examples are so often named precisely because there are few others.