Neue Folge #DieGeldfrage: 30-50% der Arbeiter durch Cobots ersetzen. Das ist das Ziel in einigen chinesischen Fabriken – und zwar dieses Jahr. @__afischer war in den Werken und @PhilippaSigl bespricht mit ihm, was das für Deutschland bedeutet. Jetzt überall, wo es Podcasts gibt

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Two weeks ago, I said EU-Inc might need your help. That moment is now. 🥁 We need you to submit feedback to the European Commission on what startups need. To get you up to speed what happened since last time: The EU Parliament published their own suggestion how a pan-european legal entity standard should look like. How you ask? By introducing 27 different entities, instead of one. By improving as little as possible, keeping as much legacy and differences as possible, and hot-patching on top of them in different ways. Why did they publish that? No idea. It's unusual at this moment. Likely Brussels-internal power-plays. But the timing is perfect, because the European Commission (the guys actually in charge of this) asked for feedback publicly now. How should a pan-European legal-entity look like? Our answer is simple: 1) ONE EUROPEAN STANDARD So that investors know how it works and you can easily raise globally, so that ecosystems can form around a centralized registry, so that stock-options can be done europe-wide, etc etc 2) FOR EVERYONE Because nobody knows, how startups look like in future and we don't want to have governments niche down access to the entity in oblivion. A downside-compromise of this is btw that we do push not standardization of employment and taxes. I explain the details in the blog post Here your task: 1) Go here to the feedback website 2) Login (they support Google Auth btw which is funny imho) 3) Write a few lines what you expect a true standard for startups should support 4) Share this with friends, coworkers, etc and ask them to also fill it out. The form needs like 1-2 minutes. If we hit a few hundred feedback submissions we already have the most feedbacked consultation in this field ever. If we hit 1000 we break the bank and they can't avoid talking to the startup ecosystem about this. 🏴‍☠️ Feel free to name drop us. Us asking for your support isn't even cheating the system. That's how this process is meant to be done. Politics is weird. 🙈 Feedback Website link – 2 Minutes of your time max. ec.europa.eu/info/law/better… Please like & share! 🙏

This has to be such a bizarre situation.

Really excited to kick this off!

Good morning Europe, Let's get to work… 1) As some of you already heard: the EU has confirmed that they are starting to work on a pan-european legal entity early 2025 🔥 2) Instead of waiting and hoping for the best. We want to frontrun this and – together with the whole startup ecosystem – create the best 👀 Today we are opensourcing a first-draft of how the EU-Inc could look. And we want your contributions. What are we missing? What's unclear? What edgecase might be an issue? The @euinc_petition needs you! 😉 It's all opensource and public here proposal.eu-inc.org/ This first draft was created with several dozen legal experts in the European ecosystem. Now we are opening it up to the wider community. We – as a community – got until January 15th to finalize a draft for the EU-Inc. To contribute simply comment in the notion (seriously what could go wrong 😬) or use the feedback button to send us your thoughts/changes/suggestions/questions. Please promote this and send this to your friends. Ask your legal-council to give their feedback too. Post on twitter your thoughts to give this more reach. The last time we said "we got 6 weeks" we managed to make this an urgent part of the work agenda. This time we got 6 weeks to make sure the implementation is right for startups. Let's show, not tell! 🔥🇪🇺

Europe – we need your help. Please sign this petition to create a pan-european legal entity and promote it as much as you can: eu-inc.org We got RIGHT NOW a once in a generation chance to improve Europe for startups. 🔥 We got 6 weeks until the new comission sets their work agenda for the years to come. Uniting the European startup ecosystems needs to be part of this agenda! The solution is known, it's just one out of hundreds for politicians. It's our job as industry to show how important it is. First co-signatories are people like @patrickc, @nzennstrom, @martinmignot, @MattClifford, @Taavet, Eléonore Crespo, @jobvo, @roxannevarza and many many more coming in the next weeks. Hopefully including you! ✌️ How you can help: - Sign this - Get your friends, your team, your investors, your portfolio to sign - Share this in your whatsapp, slack and discord groups - Get this in front of press, newsletters, and influencers eu-inc.org/ For Europe, for the next generations to come: Let's make Europe the best place for innovators. Uniting as one ecosystem is the first step - a pan-european ecosystem is the key here. Let's go!

Now put the US system besides that and you get the explanation for a large part of the difference in the outcomes of the local startup ecosystems. Wealth transfer vs. betting on the future.

Sitting in a Café. The table next to me (to girls in their early 20s), has been discussing influencers for 45 minutes. Not singling them out, I’m sure this is normal. But still a sad state of affairs.

I recommend everyone against using LangChain and this article explains well It uses abstractions on top of abstractions and actually makes your code needlessly complicated Just write API calls and add a vector database instead octomind.dev/blog/why-we-no-…

Super informative session - thanks @benjaminwolba!

🚀 Exciting news at Cirplus! Welcome aboard, Carlos and Tommy! Thrilled to introduce new team members: @carlosandrioli as CTO 💻 and @Tommy_Atwell as COO 🚛. With Carlos's 20 years in Fintech and Tommy's expertise in logistics, we're set to elevate Cirplus to new heights!

So excited for this - Daedalus is showing what is possible if you marry technology and industrial prowess (and what the potential in Europe really can be). Very happy to be a part of their journey with @_firstmomentum!

Why is Madrid the capital of Spain? Madrid is quite unique: • No river • Very recent • Tiny when it became a capital So why?

Just discovered the work of @TomasSanchezSt. Absolutely stunning

NEW: analysis of millions of books published over the centuries suggests western society is shifting away from a culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion. I think this is one of the most important challenges facing us today.

The German PISA results are nothing short of a disaster.