Marketplace Europe: EU's Digital Landscape
summary
Discussion highlights that Google holds 90% search share in Europe and that Yelp's growth halts after Google turned off the faucet; European VC pools are tiny versus the US, which sees VC rounds of hundreds of millions weekly. EU law enforces purpose-limited data collection, preventing broad reuse, and safe‑harbor uncertainty stalls US companies. Concrete proposals are a user-controlled shared data pool, faster single‑market harmonization, and more public and pension capital routed into early‑stage funds — the Yelp case and funding gaps frame the urgency.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction to panel
- 2:31Digital strategy view
- 5:15Yelp expansion challenges
- 7:10Investing in European firms
- 9:20Policy and regulation
- 14:11Audience Q&A
- 17:04Data and competition
- 20:09Venture capital differences
- 26:48Digital competition debate
- 29:35Market perspective
- 34:01Fragmented market issues
- 35:30Building European champions
- 37:15Management and regulation
- 42:57Final recommendations
