Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
Peter Thiel on the difference between American and German wealth:
“In the US, nine out of 12 of those people made their own money.”
“In Germany, all 20 of those 20 inherited it.”
“Not a single person did something new.”
Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
BREAKING: Nvidia has now announced 4 investments into German startups 🇩🇪:
@MireloAI - develops AI models that generate sound effects, speech and music for video, helping creators and production teams produce high-quality audio that perfectly matches their visuals on screen.
@AgileRobots - which builds AI-powered robots, from robotic arms to its Agile ONE humanoid, for manufacturing, logistics and healthcare.
@aveliosmed - develops an AI-native hospital information system that serves as the core system of record for clinical and administrative workflows, integrating AI directly into hospital operations to free up doctors and nurses to deliver better patient care.
@reflexaerospace - designs and builds high-performance satellites ready for launch in about 12 months instead of years.
The company has already invested in n8n, Neura Robotics and Black Forest Labs.
Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
Is the EU about to kill EU–INC?
The @euinc_petition team have just released an update saying:
"After two years of campaigning, recent negotiations are taking EU Inc in the wrong direction.
Currently 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆: 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 and 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 to attract talent (among many other aspects). Without it it’s questionable what’s left that will make it a standard"
This could be one of the impactful changes to the European Tech ecosystem if it is delivered.
At the moment it is not going to be.
The team are asking any and everyone with "a direct connection to a Prime Minister or President" to reach out.
They've shared a full statement and letter which I will link below.
But now is the time to MAKE SOME NOISE 🇪🇺
Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
At this point the whole EU Inc negotiations are so lost in the details that everyone forgot the main goal: Creating a standard.
Basically, allow founders to raise quickly globally and use stock options to hire competitively.
Let’s say it quite clearly:
1) If EU Inc isn’t providing a standard it’s useless. We already got 30+ legal entities in Europe. Experienced founders use Delaware Inc already because of this.
2) If EU Inc doesn’t fix stock options Delaware Inc is still the better option.
I understand the there are complex details and people are worried about loopholes. But you can’t lose the actual goal of it because of it.
An EU Inc that doesn't provide a standard is pointless. Nobody will care about intricacies of compromises reached in political committees if the market can't use the outcome.
If you are in contact with your political leaders (prime ministers, presidents, et al) please reach out to them. Or to founders/investors in your network who might have that access.
🔥🇪🇺✌️
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Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
I told Claude to make a video about what it's like to be European
One day later...
Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
I compiled Y Combinator's best cold email advice.
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Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
Pour comprendre ce qui se passe, il faut revenir trente-cinq ans en arrière.
Le mur tombe. L'Occident pense avoir gagné l'Histoire. Fukuyama annonce la fin des conflits idéologiques, et une génération de dirigeants européens en tire une conclusion folle : les nations, les frontières, les cultures, tout ça appartient au passé. L'avenir, c'est un grand marché sans visage, géré par des experts, des traités et des commissions que personne n'a élus.
Maastricht en 1992. L'euro. La désindustrialisation assumée, parce qu'on peut tout produire en Chine et que les usines sont ringardes. L'immigration de masse érigée en politique, sans jamais demander l'avis des peuples. Et quand les peuples disent non, comme en 2005 au référendum sur la Constitution européenne, on passe outre et on fait voter la même chose par le Parlement trois ans plus tard.
Pendant ce temps, dans les universités, une autre machine tourne. Une idéologie qui enseigne aux enfants que leur civilisation est coupable, que leur histoire est une honte, que le mérite est une oppression et que l'ordre est une violence. Elle sort des campus, elle colonise les médias, les administrations, les grandes entreprises. C'est ce qu'Elon appelle le woke mind virus.
Le résultat, on l'a sous les yeux. Une classe dirigeante hors sol qui parle à Davos et ne sait plus parler à Lorient. Un État obèse qui prélève tout et ne protège plus rien. Une dette qui explose. Des services publics qui s'effondrent. Et une partie de la jeunesse qui filme en rigolant un pompier en train de brûler.
Voilà l'aboutissement du projet globaliste. Et maintenant, trois issues.
La première, c'est 1984. Le système sent qu'il perd le contrôle, alors il serre la vis. Identité numérique obligatoire, monnaie numérique de banque centrale, censure des réseaux au nom de la lutte contre la désinformation, surveillance algorithmique de chaque échange. On ne règle aucun problème de fond, on interdit simplement d'en parler. C'est la voie que Bruxelles prépare déjà avec le DSA. Un ordre sans liberté.
La deuxième, c'est la libanisation. Le système n'arrive même plus à contrôler. L'État se retire morceau par morceau. Des quartiers entiers passent sous d'autres lois. Les hôpitaux ferment, la police ne vient plus, l'électricité devient incertaine, les communautés s'arment et se replient sur elles-mêmes. Le pays ne meurt pas d'un coup, il se fragmente. Le Liban était la Suisse du Moyen-Orient. Il a suffi de quelques années.
La troisième, c'est le rebond. Le retour de l'ordre. L'Union européenne telle qu'on la connaît se disloque, les nations reprennent leur souveraineté, et vient le temps des comptes. Un Nuremberg du communisme et de tous ceux qui ont mené ce continent dans le mur en toute connaissance de cause.
Et je pense que cette troisième voie est de loin la plus probable. Pour une raison simple que personne ne veut voir.
La France est une puissance nucléaire. Elle a des sous-marins lanceurs d'engins, près de trois cents têtes, un siège permanent au Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU. Jamais les États-Unis ne laisseront un arsenal pareil tomber dans les mains du chaos intégral. Jamais. Washington peut tolérer une France faible, une France arrogante, une France qui donne des leçons. Il ne tolérera jamais une France libanisée avec la bombe.
Ce qui veut dire que le scénario du chaos total a un plafond. Il y a un point au-delà duquel la plus grande puissance du monde interviendra, d'une manière ou d'une autre, pour que l'ordre revienne. Et l'Amérique d'aujourd'hui n'est plus celle d'Obama. C'est celle qui a décidé de détruire le woke mind virus. Avec Elon, qui réussit tout ce qu'il entreprend. Les fusées réutilisables, les voitures électriques, Starlink, le rachat de Twitter que tout le monde disait impossible. Il ne parle pas, il exécute.
En face, qu'est-ce qu'il y a ? De la fausse intelligence. L'apparence de l'intelligence. Macron en est l'incarnation parfaite : un produit de communication. Retirez-lui ses conseillers, ses éléments de langage, ses mises en scène, et il ne reste personne. Mettez-le devant un tableau blanc avec un vrai problème à résoudre, il ne saurait même pas par où commencer. Un système entier dirigé par des gens qui savent paraître, et plus aucun qui sait faire.
Ce système tient sur l'illusion. Et les illusions finissent toujours par tomber.
Alors oui, j'ai de l'espoir. Je crois que toute cette fraude va s'effondrer. Et je crois que juste après, viendra une renaissance. Celle des bâtisseurs, des ingénieurs, des entrepreneurs, des gens qui se lèvent le matin pour construire. Ceux qui font, pas ceux qui paraissent.
L'Europe s'est déjà relevée de ses cendres. Après Rome, après la peste, après deux guerres mondiales. Elle le refera.
Et cette fois, on sera là pour la reconstruire.
Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
I challenge you to not get goosebumps watching this.
NHL Opening Night on @ESPN.
Impressive. This set of talks, along with the new America dot gov website, has the unmistakable feel of an Apple launch event. They're rebooting the federal government as a tech startup. Several observations.
(1) First, with this new AI interface to the entire federal government, if it works as promised, there won't be a single American who can't say their life wasn't helped at least in part by AI, or that the benefits accrued solely to zillionaires. This in itself cannily mitigates anti-datacenter sentiment.
(2) Second, Joe Gebbia and Marco Rubio's talks on simplifying name changes and passport filings introduce a completely new era where the US government is actually launching tangible features that benefit users.
(3) Third, this launch event in and of itself may visibly drive reform. It could become much more important than the State of the Union. Unlike laws, code is user-visible, and can be instantly audited by the public, as Obama found out with the failed obamacare website launch. So: the annual America dot gov event may be substance, whereas SOTU is traditionally optics. I wouldn't be surprised to see the President present at the next one.
(4) Fourth, this kind of event is a perfect example of where tech and red cooperate best. They both hate bureaucracy. Automating paperwork with code reduces the power of statists over both capitalists and nationalists. It's also hard to undo by other admins: once you digitize a process, hard to turn it back to paper.
(5) Fifth, it's an obvious point perhaps, but think about how much influence YCombinator has had in 20 years. From Gebbia's Airbnb joining their 2009 batch to a complete overhaul of the user interface of the US bureaucracy, and thus the US government.
(6) Sixth, this is another take on the network state. The functional part of the US (the network, meaning tech) is merging with and partially reforming the dysfunctional part (the state, meaning bureaucracy) by automating 20th century paper forms.
As a tech startup, there will no doubt be bugs and user issues and so on, but unlike with paper laws those issues will be visible and the code fixes will be verifiable. A new era of AI America. Rooting for them.
Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
🇩🇪🇺🇸 Peter Thiel just pointed out a pretty brutal difference between America’s young wealthy and Germany’s.
Looking at the 50 richest people in each country who are Gen X or younger, Thiel says 9 of 12 Americans made their own fortunes.
Germany? All 20 inherited theirs.
“Not a single person did something new, made some new money, built a large new scalable company.”
Germany isn’t running out of rich people. Thiel thinks it’s running out of people getting rich by building something new.
Writer: Lynn
Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
yes, europe fumbled the bag on AI, but i think people massively underestimate how strong european robotics is.
just in 2026:
🇩🇪 NEURA announced up to $1.4B, one of the largest humanoid-robotics rounds ever
> “cognitive” means robots designed to see, feel and learn new jobs instead of being programmed move-by-move
🇩🇪 Quantum Systems raised $1.2B, one of Europe’s largest defense-tech rounds ever
> 20,000+ real flight hours in Ukraine helped its AI reconnaissance drones secure a US Army contract
🇬🇧 Humanoid raised $152M, Europe’s largest-ever Series A for a humanoid-first startup
> during a Siemens factory test, its wheeled robot moved 60 bins an hour for 8+ hours with 90%+ autonomous success
🇩🇪 Sereact raised $116M for a robot “brain” already running 200+ live systems across Europe
> across 1B+ real warehouse picks, human help was needed only once every ~53,000 attempts
🇩🇪 RobCo raised $100M for modular robot arms, basically Lego for factory automation
> smaller manufacturers can rebuild one machine for new jobs instead of buying a different robot each time
🇳🇴 norway-founded 1X built a robot hand with 25 independently controlled movements
> touch sensors let the hand feel objects slipping and handle screws, coins, zippers and USB-C cables. hundreds have already been made, with capacity for 10,000 this year
🇳🇱 Monumental raised $32M to scale one of the world’s most deployed autonomous construction fleets
> more than 100 bricklaying robots have delivered 40+ real construction projects and helped build 100+ homes
🇬🇧 Cambridge researchers built robot skin sensitive enough to detect a single grain of sand
> the new material can feel which direction an object is slipping and improves on previous 3D touch sensors by roughly 10x
🇩🇪 Nucleus emerged to build the “brain” for industrial humanoids
> Nucleus says the software will let robots perceive, reason and adapt, although the new German team hasn’t shown a public demo yet
good reason to be euro-optimismmaxxing
Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
The faster technology moves, the more I think about Bezos' question
What won't change in the next 10 years?
Things I've been writing down over time:
- Humans will always need shelter, food, energy, and healthcare.
- The desire for ownership and the accumulation of wealth.
- The physical world will move more slowly than the digital one.
- Every increase in technological capability, especially AI, will require more energy.
- People and businesses will continue to need access to capital.
- Capital will continue to seek returns that exceed inflation.
- Underwriting methods evolve, but demand for credit (loans) is persistent.
- Trust remains scarce and becomes increasingly valuable as content, code, and fraud become cheaper.
- Verified identities and reputation becomes more important as information becomes abundant and synthetic.
- Long-term wealth creation and dynastic (multi-generational) thinking predate modern technology, and will persist.
- Coordination and transaction costs never fully disappear; market friction will continue to justify the existence of firms and intermediaries.
- People will continue to compete for status.
- Consumers will pay a premium for products and services that confer status.
- Time remains fixed at 24 hours per day.
- But attention is a finite resource and an enduring constraint.
- Products that credibly save time (or enable delegation) have a perpetual market.
- Inaccessible, proprietary data will be a persistent moat. The more inaccessible and difficult to aggregate, the deeper the moat.
- People want accountability, recourse, and clearly identifiable responsibility when things go wrong.
- Regulation consistently lags technological innovation.
- Compliance requirements, licensing, and regulatory moats persist even when machines can perform the underlying task.
- Local knowledge remains valuable and difficult to replicate.
- Heterogeneous markets (like real estate) continue to reward people with deep contextual understanding.
- Incumbent organizations tend to underinvest in disrupting their own businesses, which always creates opportunities for challengers.
Bezos' insight on what wouldn't change in 10 years was "Customers will always want lower prices and faster delivery."
It's boring/ true, but I think that's the point.
Everything we build today can and will be rebuilt more cheaply, faster by someone else.
Build on the invariants, not the trends.
What have I missed?
Hamburg Startup Guy retweeted
Worldwide the west hits 40+ degrees (105* F)
Discussions by americans on this platform:
99.9% - look at stupid europeans not having A/C
0%- maybe reversing climate change combating policies was a stupid idea and we are let by morons




































