The Importance of Regulatory Capture in Tech Mergers

All big tech mergers and acquisitions are going to face an uphill battle securing approval particularly if you have to do it across multiple continents. There's meaningful regulatory differences funding differences risk taking differences between tech particularly in Silicon Valley and the rest of the world broadly in Europe in particular. The UK bit is very interesting I know you know friend reached out is like you he thinks the UK and the regulatory group is kind of the most interesting group in the world right now. If Europe had a great firewall like China there would be large European tech companies because they're shielded from competition.