I fear what Europe is lacking is the culture of entrepreneurship more so than the ecosystem. The latter is just downstream from said culture of risk-adverse, status-quo seeking, tall-poppy cutting Europeans and the governments they elect.

Twitter

I. It suddenly started charging money, but you probably didn't even notice.

You might have seen pages like these:

- "Probability of Trump winning the 2024 election: 51.3%"

- "Probability of the Fed cutting interest rates in March: 68.7%"

- "LPL Spring Split Finals, BLG's odds of winning: 1.39"

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The study...