Luca Ferrari
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And so the company, five or 10 years out, I think will still be a conglomerate of very interesting digital technology businesses, hopefully much more, and generally the company would be bigger.
And I hope we can be much stronger at everything we do and have even higher levels of talent density and hopefully inspire others to try to raise the bar in how they run their businesses.
And by the way, we started in Europe.
We like the idea that Europe... It's fascinating that if you think about most of the very large, super successful companies globally, you think about almost entirely US or Chinese companies.
Historically, US, now China is more.
Europe has very little to offer in that regard, but it's 700 million person continent.
Very good education.
I'm not saying we should have $10 trillion companies, but we don't have a single one pretty much.
I think last time I checked, we hope we can be part of that movement showing that you can actually build such a company.
We're an international company with operations in the US too, but the deeper roots, the original roots can be here too.
We are not a periphery of the empire.
I think the main reason is a matter of default.
Why does California has had so much success over the decades?
One of the reasons is you have seen incredible companies being created and grown in California.
You just assume that's where you go and do it.
Especially as a founder, you don't know much.
Like you are ultimately...
At least I was.
I think that's true of many founders.
You are a passionate, determined, maybe talented idiot, essentially.