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Well, what in your mind might be the reasons people of talent leave Europe to come to the US to start their tech empires

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Probably because US companies buy European ones.

See Skype, Nokia, Shazam.

China’s doing it too. They bought ARM shortly after Brexit.

I don’t doubt that there is a migratory factor, though I don’t believe it’s primarily due to salary or other compensation as I assume you’re inferring- a cornucopia of tech giants is going to attract talent from the world over.

So a consequence of centralisation is more centralisation.

I thought SoftBank is Japanese, not Chinese? SoftBank bought ARM, not a Chinese company, otherwise it would be a bit weird for ARM (assuming they're Chinese now) to cut ties with Huewai.

Correct.

Okay well why isn’t there a European equivalent to AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure

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