[andrewmutz]

A tangential observation: the video on the linked page wasn't what I expected. I thought Mistral was a european AI company, so I didnt expect the video to be filmed in San Francisco featuring three people who don't seem to be european.

I'm not against them being a global organization, that's wonderful. I was just surprised. I expected a parisian office and european accents.

[rjzzleep]

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 ...

[touwer]

You're american?

[rsynnott]

~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.

(I did work for one which had an office in Vancouver, instead; same tz.)

[euio757]

Mistral just hired as CMO a Seattle based former Amazon/Google VP¹ , so seems their US based presence is growing.

¹ 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...

[madduci]

And US users spend much more than their EU counterpart

[flashfaffe2]

To 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

[dominotw]

There is even like an american flag flying high in the background