[goldcd]

I think there's a difference between where companies are listed/head-quartered and where the work is done (e.g. Google seems to have 4 separate offices, just in London).

Or consider India, where huge amounts of dev work is done - but nobody can name an "Indian web brand" (internationally).

Only actual European brand I can think of that's made global impact is Spotify.

Europe seems to do better on the less fancy consumer facing side of IT - reasearch and 'hard' companies like ARM.

[dzonga]

thing is most US startups are based on VC vaporware. lots of noise, but no end result in the long run when it counts. whereas, EU startups grow at a slower pace, but end up making more money in the long run i.e more sustainable. right now, you've a bunch of US VC funded companies with 200m revenues, yet valued 50x or even 100x revenue. and yet there's probably tons of EU funded companies that are around the same revenue numbers, but most people wouldn't know since they're likely to be private. another notable EU software company I can think of is Serif that makes affordable alternatives to Adobe products. they charge 50$ for a product and get out of the way.

[bpye]

A couple more European examples:

- Wise (formally TransferWise)

- Skype

- Deliveroo

- JustEat

[nivenkos]

Spotify and Glovo too. The former if being public on the NYSE still counts as European.

[DeathArrow]

Nokia, UIPATH, SAP.