[ianbutler]

I like Europe, but a climate for entrepreneurship is not something you have.

[tester756]

That's irrelevant imo.

If FAANG announced leaving EU, then somebody's stock would go up hard, at least on the beginning.

[WanderPanda]

And productivity would falter even more without Google and Apple…

[noogle]

Why? There are various search engines that perform sufficiently well, all ran by start-up (Neeva, Kagi etc.).

Android is a suitable alternative for iOS.

The absence of European tech giants might reflect the consolidated nature of software rather than the competence of the EU.

[rowanajmarshall]

The world's third largest tech sector is in a European country (the UK), and the two country's bigger than it are literally continent-scale superstates with around 10x the GDP.