
Patrice Roulive
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Patrice Roulive
@roulive
Founder & COO of Telemis, Entrepreneur in Healthcare (Medical Imaging, PACS). And also a Movie freak.


The EU is about to kill GDPR as we know it. After 7 years of: • Crushing European innovation & startups • Making American tech giants even stronger Brussels finally admits it: GDPR was an economic disaster. Here's why this rollback could save Europe's dying tech scene 🧵:












En moyenne, en Europe, 38 % des étudiants obtiennent leur diplôme dans les délais prévus, 30 % en Flandre et seulement 19 % en Belgique francophone. #decretpaysage #fwb veto.be/onderwijs/hoe-…





Fuyez ceux qui vous disent que seule la sobriété peut assurer la transition écologique. Suivre leurs recettes est le plus sûr moyen de louper cette transition. La solution, c'est le découplage comme @DamienERNST1 l'écrivons dans cette tribune de @LEXPRESS tinyurl.com/26mnkn6j

Hmmm, let's think about Bots at massive scale ... Let's say that Tesla (and other bot makers) can get the cost of making a bot down to just $10,000 and a bot lasts ten years. And let's say that Tesla has operating costs (maintenance costs, other operating costs, SG&A and R&D) of $2,856 per year per bot. This brings their annual costs to operate a bot to just $3,856. Note: you're spending more on maintenance costs over ten years than it costs to make the bot. Now what happens if Tesla only charged $20 per day to use a bot? That's $7,300 per year in revenue to Tesla. Subtracting $3,856 in annual costs per bot, leaves $3,444 in gross profit. Now take 25% more for taxes and Tesla has $2,583 per bot in profit - that works out to a 35% net profit margin. Okay - now let's scale this up to 1 billion bots. That's $2.58 trillion in profit. Apply a price/earnings multiple of 20 (@WR4NYGov's number) to that and you get a $50 trillion market value on the bot business. If there are 2 billion bots, then double the numbers. If there are 4 billion bots, then ... well, you get the idea. Of course, at this point there would likely be some serious competition, but would any of the bot makers need to price their bots below $20 per day? I doubt it. Why? Because we will put all this cheap labor to good use - doing things we never thought was possible - further increasing the demand for bots. When something becomes so cheap we will find lots of ways to use more of it. Conclusion: Bots could profitability replace even low cost ($20/day) human labor (not in 2030, but at some point in the future). @herbertong @ChrisCamillo @GoingBallistic5


Amazon got more than 750.000 robots deployed. Most people don’t realize how fast the robotics industry is scaling Amazon is the perfect candidate. 10 years ago, robots were practically non-existent in their global warehouse and distribution network. But this is the actual acceleration ramp-up. 2013: 1,000 2014: 15,000 2017: 100,000 2019: 200,000 2021: 350,000 2022: 520,000 2023: 750,000 Let’s zoom in on the two last jumps. 400,000 additional robotic units in roughly two years. That results in thousand of new units deployed *every week* 🚀 It’s clear. Beyond doubt. That AI, robotics, computer vision, will and is replacing a lot of human labor. And will continue accelerating that progress in the next decade. It’s important to note that this will also accelerate the need for more high-skilled work. Make industry safer. The biggest challenge we will face is the grandeur of re-skilling and up-skilling that will be facing the workforce in a relative short period of time ahead. We’ve entered the Era of Robotics and The Age of Intelligence all at once.




