Opinion

October 14, 2019

Europe, don’t draw the wrong lessons from the fall of the unicorns

We Europeans shouldn’t pay too much attention to the ups and downs of the tech unicorns across the Atlantic. Just like China, we should be willing to dance to our own music.


Nicolas Colin

4 min read

Europe is at the same time too close and too far removed from the US. Because we generally speak the same language (English) and we read the same newspapers and blogs, information crosses the Atlantic fast and we in Europe are always caught up in what’s happening in the US. At the same time, Europe’s startup ecosystem is still lagging behind that of the US, which means that our tech companies grow slower, capital and talent are scarcer and the environment is generally more adverse.

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Nicolas Colin

Nicolas Colin is cofounder of VC firm The Family. He writes a regular column for Sifted

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