Leo Lerach
690 posts
@leolerach
Co-Founder & COO @Enapi_gmbh, prev. VC @ProjectAcom
there is a special place in hell for European angels who ask where their 5k went, a year after they “invested”
Barbour’s new Pastel Collection 🙂↕️
BREAKING: President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen introduces EU Inc. President of the @EU_Commission says: "With EU Inc. we are making it drastically easier to start and grow a business all across Europe" The @euinc_petition is designed to create a new EU-wide corporate entity, like a Delaware LCC in the United States, giving firms full access to the EU single market and avoiding the patchwork of 27 national corporate laws. European Commissioner Michael McGrath says: "We need to incentivise companies to stay in Europe and encourage those who once looked elsewhere to return" The movement was Co-Founded by @andreasklinger and spearheaded by a number of European technology advocates including @MarvinTBaumann.
BYD intends to build 6000 (!) #MEGAWATT charging stations FOR CARS next year, outside of China. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #speechless #alwaysbecharging #battchat x.com/TodosElectrico…
Inside @google, we have a system for sending small bonuses to peers that helped us out. It's used often, and builds a culture of gratitude. We added an AI tool that scans your chats, emails, whatever and generates a report that shows who helped you the most lately. So handy.
Friedrich Merz wiederholt, dass mit Work-Life-Balance und 4-Tage-Woche der Wohlstand nicht beibehalten werden kann. Wie sehr er an den eigentlichen Problemen vorbeifliegt, zeigt dieser Post perfekt. So als müsste ein Pferd nur schneller galoppieren, um gegen ein Auto mitzuhalten.
I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster
NEW: 🇩🇪🇨🇳 German Chancellor Merz says Germans need to work more in order to match China: “We are simply no longer productive enough. Each individual may say, “I already do quite a lot.” And that may be true. But when you return from China, ladies and gentlemen, you see things more clearly. With work-life balance and a four-day week, long-term prosperity in our country cannot be maintained. We will simply have to do a bit more.”
German Chancellor Merz: We are simply no longer productive enough. Each individual may say, “I already do quite a lot.” And that may be true. But when you return from China, ladies and gentlemen, you see things more clearly. With work-life balance and a four-day week, long-term prosperity in our country cannot be maintained. We will simply have to do a bit more.
German Chancellor Merz: We are simply no longer productive enough. Each individual may say, “I already do quite a lot.” And that may be true. But when you return from China, ladies and gentlemen, you see things more clearly. With work-life balance and a four-day week, long-term prosperity in our country cannot be maintained. We will simply have to do a bit more.
Alena Buyx über Large Language Models. Papageien sind übrigens wunderbar nette und intelligente Vögel - die einzigen die selbst bei Hitchcock keinem Menschen etwas zuleide tun. 🦜
