Unfortunately Europeans are terrible customers for making money. They ask a lot of questions and they're very stingy with their wallets. Americans on the other hand ...
replyYou're american?
replyOh come on!
replyMistral has a successful business model and is actually making money. Not sure opening and anthropic are doing that yet.
~Any borderline-large European tech company will have an office on the US west coast, for sales if nothing else. And probably sales engineering. The timezone difference is eight to ten hours; there is really no way around it.
reply(I did work for one which had an office in Vancouver, instead; same tz.)
Mistral just hired as CMO a Seattle based former Amazon/Google VP¹ , so seems their US based presence is growing.
reply¹ The one locally famous for being sued by Amazon for non compete back when non compete were a thing: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-sues-former-aws-marketi...
And US users spend much more than their EU counterpart
replyAnother company like this is Blackmagic Design. Despite being overwhelmingly based in Australia, you'd think it was an American company based on office listing ordering on https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/company/offices and /company page.
replyTo the best of my knowledge, most of the founding team started their careers in the US ( meta,etc..) and their primary investors are US VCs. In that regard, they smartly benefit on both side : US funding and European brains
replyThere is even like an american flag flying high in the background
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