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How not to miss crucial news, and EU's battle for Big Tech - Patroncast S03E15 (Patreon)

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2023-04-17 13:34:59
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Hey everyone,


I hope you're all doing well!


Here is your weekly episode of the patroncast!


In this one, I talk about:

- 00:44 Missing a crucial piece of news that would have transformed the latest news video, and looking for ideas to avoid this happening again, plus what's planned for the week

- 10:44 Eu's battle for big tech, and how it feels that the EU is looking at the issue of not having a tech giant from the wrong side of the lens


I hope you'll enjoy listening to this one!

Have a nice week :)

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Emil Johansen

One point worth noting is defining what "big tech" is. Any pitched non-US candidates for the definition in public conversation often get dismissed because they're not at the scale of the four or five abominations which pulled themselves up by their lobbyists-strings.

Emil Johansen

Re: Am I alone in the impression that European tech companies generally try to build themselves by copying US ones?: That isn't an impression I share, no. But let's stay inside software - the list would be ridiculous if covering tech in general ;) Spotify was brought up earlier and are a completely valid example - whether you like them or not they didn't copy shit. But going more by what I actually know, in DK novel IT companies are quite common. Their fate is usually one of the following: - Fail to raise enough capital, run out of steam, US company integrates or "invents" the tech some time later. - Fail to raise capital fast enough, get squashed by US company getting inspired to build related solution. - Get US investment, move to US. - Get US investment, get bought by US company & integrated. When you move around in the local tech industry, it is super easy to get the impression that the primary offering the US brings to the table is virtually unregulated investment capital. That is obviously a ridiculous summation - the US tech sector is extremely productive and inventive way before any investor stops by and attaches a booster rocket to the business. However the access to capital - at any level of regulation - is still an absolutely obvious advantage. If the EU wants to take an active role in supporting a stronger tech sector to better compete with the US one, they need to: - Actually look at what their citizens are already building & doing, trusting in that rather than thinking some sort of external solution would be obviously superior. I mean what the fuck? - Support investment in the local IT sector.

thelinuxexperiment
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There is a funding problem, yes, and a "usage" problem. I think most European governments are finally realizing that if they want their companies to thrive, they need to set an example and at least make an effort to use their services and tools, instead of immediately running to the big ones that come from the US. Same goes for EU citizens: we're so used to the "big tech" names that most people won't even consider something that isn't from them. At my previous job, we pitched using OVH instead of AWS, because their tooling was sufficient for our needs (we didn't serve millions of users, and we never would, it was a much smaller target), but the CEO instantly refused and said we needed to use something "trustworthy", and so AWS it was, even though it was way more expensive. What I feel isn't that EU companies necessarily try to copy US ones, I feel they try to grow in the same way the big ones did 10 or more years ago, which is obviously not doable anymore today, apart from a few rare exceptions. In terms of products, organization, marketing, they don't copy, but in terms of how they build their plan to grow, I feel they try to emulate the "startup in a garage" mentality, which served Google and the like really well, but isn't necessarily the best way to go about it these days. I've know companies that are a bit smarter than that, and will actually start by offering their service to local governing bodies, to get initial funding from the government, and use that to build something cool, then start marketing to the general public, instead of taking the big ones head on with a product that does slightly more than Google's offerings.