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Microsoft and Apple were founded before EU was created, Google was founded before Eurozone was created and Facebook was founded before Lisbon treaty signed - EU
by ivan_gammel 5y ago
Microsoft and Apple were founded before EU was created, Google was founded before Eurozone was created and Facebook was founded before Lisbon treaty signed - EU is late in this game as a political entity.
Do we need companies with trillion dollar valuation here? No, we do not. Political weight of companies that worth more than GDP of majority of EU countries would be too big for a healthy democratic system. Still we have plenty of successful unicorns and established companies in digital space that are expanding beyond the EU (Spotify, SAP, Klarna, Flixbus, HelloFresh etc).