Europe is moving. Most people are not noticing.
In episode, Jens Heitland sits down with Stewart Guenther, Stephen Brooks, and Annette Van Berge Henegouwen to go through the biggest European business stories of the week and what they actually mean for executives operating on this side of the Atlantic.
This week, the Europa AI consortium secured European Commission funding to build an open-source frontier model in 24 languages. Conduct, a London-based data infrastructure company founded by former Palantir engineers, closed a 51 million Series A. Germany took a 40 percent stake in KNDS and cleared the path for a 20-billion-euro IPO. And the Franco-German FCAS sixth-generation fighter program was canceled after Airbus and Dassault failed to agree on leadership.
The conversation moves across AI sovereignty, enterprise data infrastructure, defense investment, drone warfare, entrepreneurial visibility in Europe, and what organizations can learn from a collaboration that collapsed not because of technology but because of ego.
Timecode:
00:00 European Perspective: Tech, Policy, and F Up of the Week
01:07 Technology
17:40 Success Story
35:21 Transformation & Change
49:52 Entrepreneurial Thinking
01:05:41 Fuckup of the Week
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Stewart Guenther: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smguenther/
Annette Van Berge Henegouwen: https://www.annettevanbergehenegouwen.com/
Stephen Brooks: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenabrooks1/
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