The latest news about the capitalization rounds finalized by two leading manufacturers of humanoid robots shows how far apart the venture capital markets in the US and Europe are. And these differences also have a significant impact on the future … Continue reading Europe vs. USA: Two Robotics Companies, 2 x 1 Billion, But Their Valuations Are Worlds Apart
Relations between the US and Europe have cooled noticeably, and this is having an impact on tourism. Tourist numbers fell by 6 percent from 72.4 million in 2024 to 68 million in 2025. Tourism revenues also declined by three percent. … Continue reading Tourism Ruined, Business Travel OK?
A terrorist attack against the power supply for the Tesla factory paralyzed production a few weeks ago. Demonstrations and occupations of the planned site caused weeks of commotion before the factory was built. Tesla’s water consumption is also constantly brought … Continue reading Schizophrenic Germany: Lamenting Deindustrialization While Fighting Tesla
It wasn’t so long ago that I still had to explain who Elon Musk was during my presentations in Europe. Not even in the automotive industry, where Tesla had already attracted attention, was the name familiar in 2015. I refer … Continue reading Elon Musk & Twitter: Why is everyone hyperventilating?
Digitization is on everyone’s lips, with one conference after another, but when the pandemic hit, it became clear how little Germany, for example, had digitized. There are plenty of failed examples, and I even compile them in the LinkedIn group … Continue reading BMW’s Seat Heating Subscription: Why Are People so Upset?
The statistics on Germany’s entrepreneurship could not be more sobering. According to Statista, there were still more than one and a half million founders in Germany in 2001, but this figure fell to just over half a million in 2019. … Continue reading When the German IRS Threatens Founders
Wealth and real estate are concentrated in a shrinking share of the population. The gap between increased production and income growth has been widening for decades. The owners of these resources benefit from this. And this wealth tends to stay … Continue reading Inherited versus Merited
Although the physicist William Shockley had been a brilliant scientist who brought the semiconductor and transistor to mankind, his brilliance ended in guiding people. In the same year that he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, he had founded Shockley … Continue reading How California Legally Permits Innovation