{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Back in America","title":"Can Europe Catch Up in Tech? Oliver Coste Says Change This Law","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2355,"description":"Recorded live in New York City, this Back in America conversation goes straight at a taboo: employment protection for highly paid engineers. Tech entrepreneur and author Oliver Coste argues that strict dismissal rules in countries like France and Germany make it slow and costly to stop failing projects, which blocks the pivots that fuel disruptive innovation.Coste contrasts Meta’s rapid post–ChatGPT restructuring with SAP’s constraints, explains why Europe dominates incremental industries but lags in high-failure-rate tech, and lays out a flexicurity fix modeled on Denmark and Switzerland. We dig into profit dynamics, brain drain myths, and what happens to Europe’s economy by 2030 if nothing changes.If you care about Europe’s next decade, this one is blunt, data-driven, and hard to ignore.\n\n\nFrom the conversation:\n\"Every single disruptive innovation that has appeared since 75 is American or Chinese. And there's one piece of law that each country should change: the condition of dismissal, what is called technically employment protection laws.\" -- Can Europe Catch Up in Tech- Oliver Coste Says Change This Law\n\"When you want to let 1000 engineers go in Germany, it takes four years in average. The consequence is that you don't accelerate. You don't take speed. You don't go on risky roads.\" -- Can Europe Catch Up in Tech- Oliver Coste Says Change This Law\n\n\n\nYou might also like:\n• Trump, cryptocurrency investment, and the Chinese-American voters: ...\n• AI in Education: A Fractional CTO on Teaching, Hiring Juniors, and ...\n• World Correspondence Chess Champion Jon Edwards on Playing Alongsid...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/OHIkE8JRy2UY47ci_6oB1qPcSolgd5Rqsf6RisO6K7w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zNWQ3/NjkwODNiMzQ5NDIz/ZGU2ZjNhZTRiNDM3/OTY0ZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}