Opinion

October 28, 2019

A “high-tech guy” as EU commissioner is no use for startups

Everything about Thierry Breton - the EU's likely next commissioner - suggests he'll be more supportive of sci-fi-inspired moonshots than policies that really help entrepreneurs.


Nicolas Colin

5 min read

Working in technology, people frequently ask me about the future: what will things be like 20 or 30 years from now? But because I work in the startup world my usual reply is that I’m more interested in the present than in the future. I’m passionate about what we can do here and now, not in 20 years time. I want to focus on the problems we should solve today by founding new businesses and building new institutions to make the shift easier.

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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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