you see the title of this video it's very unfortunate that I lost a good friend recently to the simp shadow realm it's one of those type of things where you don't want to see people go through it you want to help them as a friend to overcome it hell this is coming from somebody that used to be in the simp shadow realm himself if you want me to check out of that video it's actually still up on my channel I recorded it when I first started my channel last year I'll definitely check it out for you guys a lot of you guys are new subscribers so y'all weren't there for the the simp days the simp saga you know I'm saying and I have a video up there I never deleted it and it's cringe-worthy so if you want I'll definitely check it out for you guys and we can just you know have a good time with that video and you know I'm saying I can crack jokes and y'all can crack jokes on me as well because it was dreadful it's really unbecoming of people when they finally realize damn this person had a better deck than me they had an Egyptian God card and they had all the right traps and spells I thought I was gonna win the match I end up losing myself and I end up getting sent to the shadow realm and then my friends come around try to help me up pick me back up and then I turn on them let me give you the backstory of this whole situation so basically somebody that I know and I've known since high school was making some simp plays like he thought his deck was God tier it wasn't he was getting hit with trap card spell card after spell card after trap card he was losing life points at a rapid rate he ended up losing the match he ended up losing the match unfortunately and he was stuck in a simp shot around for a while you know I'm saying but as friends you know I'm saying we try to pull them out of it we try to let them know what's going on and also if you have real good friends you know your friends are gonna make fun of the situation now here's a caveat to that if y'all know like I said at the beginning of this video I too was stuck in the simp shot around my opponent was the red Baron herself and her deck was loaded she had all types of trap and spell cards I've never seen before she even hit me with an Egyptian God card and I was done I thought I was gonna be stuck in the simp shot around forever but my friends helped me get out of it and of course as good friends they are they made fun of me for being a even in that position to lose like that and it's okay it's part of life you make mistakes if your friends can't make fun of you and you can't make fun of your friends and I really friends I want my friends to you know laugh at me when I make mistakes that's just it's just what it is it's part of life you know I'm saying it's all good but it was never disrespectful you know I'm saying he he actually was there to help me out the shadow realm and he was also there to fire my ass up and I'm okay with that you feel me so jump to present time and the roles are kind of reverse but his shadow realm was a little bit he was kind of deeper than I was but I relate I'm making fun of him I'm making jokes you know I'm saying we just all laughing and then it's like he turns it's like oh I'm the one that's playing I'm like he he feels that I'm playing him and I'm I'm coming at him sideways is like no I'm just joking would you like you joke with me you feel me and he took offense and you find out people's true colors when they upset he was pretty upset he said he wasn't but you can tell somebody feeling some type of way when they start saying how they really feel about you when an individual can sit up there and tell you are now you lame you a peon I can never let a peon or a lame person try to tell me how to move you know I'm saying like that's how they they really feel about you you know I'm saying and that's when I started to realize like that's that's crazy I'm a lame and a peon but yet people know my name and this is not for me to flex this is telling the truth people know my name because of the hard work me and Dub have put into the YouTube in the hard way we're gonna continue putting into the YouTube more people gonna know my name you know I'm saying so people know my name for a reason no one knows who you are for a reason we're not gonna go into that but for someone to say I'm lame and I'm a peon and all this other stuff I must be a pretty cool lame peon as individual and I'm okay with that you know I'm saying and once I started getting that vibe from this individual it just started going downhill it even got to the point where the individual wanted to pull up pull up to the crib you know I'm saying basically trying to check me and it's funny because cuz once again I know this person I've known him since high school and it's like yo you really trying to pull up to try to check me bro like that's that's lame to me dog and that's when it hit me he's still stuck in the shadow realm it's like he thinks he's out but he's not that's some simp maneuvers right there that's some simp residue still stuck on him he still has the simp shadow around presence or around him he can't shake it off some simp moves flame if anything that's hella corny and I'm really disappointed I really disappointed because I lost a friend that I literally talked to on a frequent basis there was a part of the channel the main channel you know I'm saying and no this is not about Brandon so don't ask it's definitely not about Brandon and if you haven't tell it's not about the but it was a part of the channel I always supported whatever they did even before YouTube and this is how they repay me because I'm making jokes on them and I'm telling them it's just jokes even when I try to diffuse the situation they still talk about pull up with where's your what's your address I'm about to pull up like I don't have time for that for those who don't know my age and the people that hang around with we damn near 30 bro we almost 30 I'm not about to do that some of my friends have families like I'm not that's lame to me you feel me I'm not trying to fight people I grew up with if it gets to that point then we not really friends and that's what I had to figure out and it's sad man it's disappointing I lost a good friend to the simp shadow round bro and I can only hope and pray that he has a millennium item of his own and he believes in the heart of the cards that's the key I have to believe in the heart of the cards and that's when my millennium items activated and I was able to be free of the red Baron herself man I was able to be free and you know saying regain my confidence and regain my strength back and escape the shadow round he has to do the same thing he's not out and I hope he believes in the heart of cards at some point and realize that you don't cast the way people that's in your corner you know I'm saying you embrace it we all take it as at some point in our lives you just gotta laugh it off bounce back you feel me so to that individual hopefully at some point the harder the cards reach out to you and you're able to get out the simp shadow round man it's it's not a place where you need to be 2020 has been a crazy year there's a lot of crazy stuff going on in the world and there's a lot of simps out there and you're better than that my guy you are but that's just the video man something little impromptu I wanted to make this video to make light of the situation because at the end of the day I want my energy to be positive I'm not trying to be for no by your you know saying even get into no serious altercations like that birth like that's to me that's as late like there's a lot going on in this world that we should be more worried and concerned about then fighting your own friends because they stuck in the simp shadow round that's not what's up man but if y'all want me to check out my own simp shadow round footage on this channel comment down below check it out Ross I want to you know say I want you to react to that video and you know I'm saying I definitely will for you guys I have no problem making fun of myself you feel me that's how you really know you are the simp shadow round when someone can make fun of your simp days and you don't get mad you just laugh it off you fire back you know saying you joke on them on they sometimes like it happens man and I'm all for that I'm all just to laugh and you know I have a good time so comment down below if that's something that y'all would want me to react to I honestly think I probably will react to it just just because I you know I want to want to kind of see the difference of where I was then to where I'm at now telling you that video is hella cringy but a road to 10k we doing good y'all appreciate the love and support on my dancing videos and the wrestling content y'all are really loving it more wrestling content on the way this week I appreciate y'all kicking in with me I see y'all on the next one peace


Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay. I have a featured seller video for you guys This is a member of my Facebook group. No YouTube channel just a Bolo finder and she shares at my Bolo live show and She sent me a auction that she has active right now to my Facebook group messenger So that I could share it in my Facebook group and I was checking out her store And I'm like I have got to feature this girl. She has Amazing Bolo's you guys are gonna love it. So we are just gonna dig right in and get started Um, I did print off the paper and it is very tiny. So I might be like looking like this So I'm gonna tell you where she got it what she paid for it and what it sold for. All right, the first item Let's get screen share up and the first item is the auction she sent me and And I don't have the information on this because I didn't ask her She just sent the auction to me, but I thought it was really cool and I wanted to share it with you guys It still has six days left and it has 11 beds so far. It's currently at $58. It's a vintage Briar creation Siamese kitten Super super interesting. I've never seen anything like it. I didn't even know that Briar makes horses. I didn't know they made other animals But here is the tag that is on the bottom So I'm guessing it's Briar like that makes the horses. I mean, I could be wrong. It could be another Briar Does anybody know if you know put it down in the chat? So I did post this in my Facebook group So it will be there if you guys want to go check it out and look for it to see what it ends up selling for All right, the next item sold for Okay, so it says she got it at the Goodwill For $3.99. I took a best offer of 50. It went to France the bright colors caught my eye check comps Some loot crate stuff can be money. So it's elite loot crate wizarding world harry potter mermaid towel Try wizard championship New so I don't know if those are just words that she came up with. I don't know how she figured out that title I'm not even sure what this is. Oh It's a towel. Did I say towel or did I say something else? It's a towel you guys That is amazing wizarding world lootware, huh Never heard of it. Have you guys heard of this? Let me know in the comments You guys drop me comments like comment all through the video. I want to see how many comments I can get on this video Let's do it. All right, the next item Blown glass bumpy heart Christmas ornaments feather tree green red Germany vintage And you can see here. They're even rusty at the top, but they're very very Very cool Let's see she got these for eight dollars that in a state stale found these with some shiny bright ornaments But could tell they were different because of the pond. Oh gosh, I can't read it pond hills That must be at the bottom. So is that this part or? Huh What's a pond till P O N T I L S pond hills Okay, now you guys have another question to answer put it in the comments. Help me out All right, the next item are these vintage Big Mac blue bandana pack of five They're handkerchiefs you guys they have the elephant on them with the trunk up. I did a video on a Bandana that somebody sold and it was used and it went for big money and it was actually Eddie Hodgepodge I feature his store all the time. I have a video on this item I don't know if this is the exact same bandana, but his was used and went for big bucks I need to go back and look at that, but you see where the elephant it has the trunk up I remember him saying trunk up was good and this is new old stock a five pack So I'm wondering and she's not gonna want to hear this if maybe she undersold these a little bit I Wish I could go find that video like right now I'll try to remember to Post it. I don't know when or where but anyway, let's see where she got this Less than a dollar a state sale found three packs even pre-owned Vintage bandana sell while she is exactly right. They most certainly do Especially the elephant with the trunk up. Okay, so these tops vintage ugly monster named sticker trading cards Are actually another Bolo that I have done a video on profit monsters if you guys haven't checked out him Definitely go check him out. He found a bunch of these and has been selling them like crazy I don't know if he has any left because this was like last year But I did feature him on my YouTube channel about this exact item So definitely go check that out. I think it was actually these are ugly monster. I Think no his were different They his were the ones. What are they called? They have like their stickers I'll have to look that one up, too My mind is not working right now But she paid less than a dollar for these got in a junk box at an estate sale with tons of other great vintage junk toys So these were auction style and sold for forty seven dollars and twenty five cents and the buyer paid shipping and I cannot think of what those cards are called right now I wish I could pause the video, but I don't think I can pause on stream yard All right, the next item is this vintage Buckingham Manufacturing thread cleaner chaser restore 6103 made in USA and I will say this gal has great keywords Lots of keywords in her title that people are gonna pick up to find this item All right, she got this at an estate sale for ten dollars still have no clue what this is just saw that comps were good I get that sold it for fifty nine dollars and ninety nine cents and the buyer paid shipping The next item is this Italian stone alabaster fruit Realistic great for staging. I love selling stone fruit It's it's great. It does great It's a bolo for sure some more than others. I've never seen cherries. Those are cool Let's see what she wrote. She said got a bag full for five dollars at an estate sale So less than two dollars in this lot. I'm pretty sure that I learned about stone fruit from you Yes, that could be I like to sell fruit The next item is this vintage oxbow, France Po Po Hono Po Hono. Is that right men's sweater? It's a Celtic knot brown and green Okay, so here is the tag and Let's see two dollars at an estate sale took a sixty dollar best offer didn't know this brand But I could tell it was quality sold for best offer 60 The next item is interesting. I love it because it's one of those unexpected bolos. It's Nia Naa onion skin paper. What? onion skin paper, what is that and Would you ever think that it was worth this kind of money? Let's see. Did she take a best offer? Okay. She did She did not She paid two dollars at an estate sale They don't make paper like this anymore and it sold for eighty nine dollars and ninety nine cents you guys look onion skin paper, what? onion skin paper I Never heard of such a thing, but I definitely want to find some eighty nine dollars and ninety nine cents plus shipping How cool is that? So tell me in the comments. Have you ever heard of onion skin paper? Love it. The next item is this interlacements yarn and she said that She got this at an estate sale more vintage high-end yarn hand dyed. There were three schemes She said she had them listed separately and somebody wanted them all so she created a bundle for seventy five dollars And this is what it looks like and you can tell I mean that that just looks high-end Definitely so three schemes for seventy five I Love this one also the unexpected Bolo's even though I know about this one I still like am just shocked by it, you know, they're vintage chic personal touch razor blade refills Sold for forty seven dollars and fifty nine cents and the buyer paid the shipping and she got this for fifty cents at an estate sale And she says she loves to sell any razors or blades Yes, they can most definitely be a Bolo. So these are vintage but again, I mean It's crazy for refill blades, but I mean razor blades are kind of expensive anyway, but somebody Loves these and they can't get them anymore. So they'll pay up The next item are these Remington tight curls hot rollers always look up hot core Rollers the curlers some of them not all of them, but some of them are a Bolo Two dollars at the Goodwill the pageant crown Crowd loves these specific curlers and you can see she put pageant cheer. So another great key word And they sold for fifty one dollars and ninety nine cents and the buyer paid the shipping The next item that sold is this Bucilla needlework kit. So this is a stocking. It's Bucilla It's very vintage. It is from the 50s. Check this out. How cool is that? Very very cool. It's a jeweled Christmas stocking and this came from an estate sale paid two dollars took a best offer of 40 Vintage stockings and cross stitch kits are my favorite thing to sell easy to list and ship This one wasn't complete or it would have gone for more So and it's slightly musty You know, I'm looking at that and I'm like, I think I say musk Musky and it is musty. I say it wrong. That is so funny. Oh Okay, the next one is this jelly cat mumble lion orange brown plus stuffed animal. It's got the furry mane again great keywords Jelly cat is a great brand. This one is new old stock. It's got the tags Yes, jelly cat London and I actually Sold a jelly kitten or a jelly. I forget what it was It's in one of my videos, but yeah, they make those too. I had no idea But she got this at the Goodwill for two dollars took a best offer of 40 jelly cat is a great brand of plush This was a very rare one and new I hope to get more but was happy with 40 All right, let's see what else she has the next item is this anthropology tablecloth I told you guys she has great bolos red green plaid ruffle Christmas shabby chic Round and it's new with tags Very cool There's a little dot right there a little bit there but not a big deal There you got the tag Okay, so she said a dollar best offer of fifty five dollars Got it at an estate sale pick up or I'm sorry a state auction pick up.  They didn't That didn't make the auction lots of great high-end stuff. Oh, that's interesting and That would be fun Alpaca connection cardigan sweater. It's embroidery flower silver clasp So it's got the fancy clasp on the front and This was four dollars last day of an estate sale and took a best offer of fifty dollars and the buyer paid the shipping This vintage men's long wool coat a 42 deluxe quality sports wear black with a fur call black fur collar And I'm gonna show you guys the tag maybe Let me see if I can get zoomed in. Yeah, so it's definitely a vintage jacket two dollars Consignment store end of season clearance sale. That's a good place to source Took a best offer of fifty and the buyer paid the shipping The next item is anything Muppet hand puppet and it has the original box and Advertisement now this is cool. I definitely would have snagged this up and fast Um Free table at a garage sale get out of town Probably could have gotten more sold super fast and before I deleted it off of Etsy it sold there as well should have auctioned it Yeah, I was gonna say when I saw this one. I'm like Wow, I would have listed that like higher, but I've never sold one It was just like a hunch. So knowing that it sold quickly. I probably would have auctioned that one too But hey, you know, you got it free It's crazy. You got that free All right, the next item is this vintage mother of pearl caviar server open salt seller dish bowl spoon set of 10 Keywords keywords keywords. I need to like message her and say give me keywords for this item because she's fantastic All right, mother of pearl. Okay, $10 a state sale of people that traveled the world got so many great things there Isn't it fun when you look back and you're like, oh, I remember where I got that and they had so much great stuff Yes, I do that all the time Sold these for $99.99 and the buyer paid shipping The next item is this Panasonic portable CD player jogger radio headphone vintage And it is new old stock $7 at an estate sale and sold for $99.99 and the buyer paid the shipping The next item is this Mary Engel bright ho ho ho Santa Claus peppermint needle point stocking red Velvet is what it says See there you go. That's what the tag looks like And there's the other tag and she said good will a dollar sold in a day almost anything Me is a Bolo so Mary Engel bright is a good item to be on the lookout for she's saying that it sells well And actually when I was looking at her solds, I saw two other items that were the same brand that she had sold The next item is this colonette colin e Ttee yarn to die Dye for throw pullover cardigan kit wool mohair blue vintage Okay, so I'm gonna scroll in for you guys so you can see what this looks like because This stuff wait until wait until you hear if you're not looking what this sold for $443 on auction you guys plus the buyer paid the shipping So she paid $12 at the last day of an estate sale vintage high-end yarn Couldn't decide how to price because there weren't any comps exact comps So I started the auction at 200 in the last minute it went from 243 up to 443 That is Fantastic, and it's got this cool little advertisement that's appears to be vintage I Don't see any dates or anything, but that sure looks vintage to me The next item that sold are these trippin TRI PPE in women's boots Eight and a half their knee-high Tall knee-high lace-up back And these she got $10. She paid $10 got at the same auction pickup Garage sale got two other pairs That sold for about a hundred each as well, and they all had scuffing on the toes They are made in Germany and very high quality. So they are pre-owned and they're a riding boots. I believe Not a hundred percent sure, but they sure look like it. So yeah, I mean they've got some scuffing for sure $127 and 49 cents. So just because you see some scuff and some love people will still buy them and The last item is this vintage bovano of Shuh shuh sire. I have no idea water mill enamel copper sculpture wall art again I would have been like what on earth do I call this? great keywords Let's see there is maybe some info back here. Okay, so that helped a little But not much So yeah, very very interesting piece. I'm not sure I would have picked that up Let's see what she says about it three dollars last day of a state sale definitely a bolo brand It caught my eye on the wall. I had never heard of the brand. I checked comps. I was shocked This was vintage and a rare design probably could have gotten more All right, so I am gonna take you Over to visit store. Oh, man My computer has been doing this all day. There we go. Yay Top drawer boutique is her store I am gonna link it down below if you guys want to go and check out what else she has because she has a fantastic store a Nice variety of just different stuff, you know She just has a great eye. So definitely go down and check that out. Oh see these guys right here I sell those I find these all the time and some of them sell for more than others, but they always sell Yeah, I have a few listed in my store right now, but yeah, definitely neat neat neat store Let's see what else she's got and I like the name top drawer boutique So again, this will be linked down in the description of the video if you want to check out what else she has sold and Some of her other active listings, maybe you'll see something you'll want to buy Alright, so again this gal was from my bolo buddies Facebook group and she sent me the link to the auction So if you guys ever have an auction that has bids and it's an item that you picked up That's a bolo. Please message me on Facebook and I will get that shared in the group It helps others learn it gets eyes on your items. Somebody may buy it. You never know. It's happened before and I Just happened to look at her solds I was kind of being nosy and I was like, do you want to be featured and she's like Yes, I would love to be featured and I'm like, okay, so I sent her the information that I needed these were the items that I picked I thought they were fantastic. I know that I learned a lot. Did you learn a lot? Put it in the comments what your favorite bolo was and if you have an eBay store and you have bolo's and you want To be featured feel free to reach out to me in my bolo buddies Facebook group There's a link down in the description of the video and as always, thanks for watching. Thanks for being here And I'll see you at the next video


Hello, hello to you all and welcome for this session. The session on a very hot topic will be talking about the supra-ultra power of the big platforms, the GAFAM, as we name them in the US but in Asia and also we have quite a big groups like Tencent, Baidu, Aili Baba of course. Unfortunately in Europe companies are lagging behind and quite none of these companies are really influence in the Serena and one of the main response we have now in Europe is regulation. So we'll be talking about that. What is this regulation for? Is it helpful? Does it help innovation? Does it help the emergence of big supra-European champions? And for this session we have quite a great panel. I'm very proud to moderate this panel today. We have Thierry Breton, a European commissioner for internal markets, Bengt Elstrom, Nobel Prize and a professor at the MIT, Luke Julien, chief scientific officer just joined the group Renault and Jacques Cremaire, professor at the Toulouse School of Economics. And we'll start with you Jacques. You've been studying this topic of course for many years now and so what is your reflection on the actual situation? It's a very strange situation because in some sense we're all in love with big tech. I mean if Apple announces a new iPhone you've got queues for 24 hours or 48 hours waiting for the new iPhone. If you spend two hours on Facebook a day you are not even considered an addict. Everybody uses Google, or nearly everybody uses Google in order to access news, to access the internet, to find information. So big tech is part of our lives. We all became early adopters. Even late adopters. I remember my mother telling me, oh Google is not that fantastic when it appeared. So there's really this enthusiasm about big tech. We use it, we like it. So that's that our individual life. People use Alexa except to speak to big tech or Amazon Echo to speak to big tech and I think it's normal to have a friendly relationship with it. And then on the political level and on the media level big tech is the big nasty guys. They're taking over our lives, they're taking our data, they don't give us any choice, they keep us prisoners. So we've got this big tension I think in society which is creating lots of interesting ripples in the discussions of what policy. So Europe has taken the lead in trying to moderate the bad aspects of big tech. So I played a very, very minor role about three years ago when I helped write a report for the European Commission on how should competition policy be reformed. And then Europe has decided actually to go further than this, that managing competition wasn't enough. We should regulate competition and Commissioner Breton has been one of the people at the forefront of this effort to create new regulations for big tech. So there are really interesting questions about how do we regulate big tech, lower the bad aspects while not losing the good aspects. And then there's a secondary question which I think is very important and I hope we'll discuss is Europe is, it seems to me clearly behind in terms of innovation, especially in big tech. And I hope we will have a discussion also of clearly regulation is not going to be enough to promote European innovation. What else should we do in order to promote European innovation? So I'm really looking forward to this discussion with a commissioner with my old friend Benk and with Luke Julia. Good and we are very happy and honored to have Cherry Breton with us tonight today. Hello Mr. Breton, live from your office in Brussels. What's interesting in your role is that you are today, you play a main role of course in all these aspects today as Commissioner, but you have been leading big French companies in the tech area for most of your career. So you have this very good comprehension and you know what regulation is. How does it help? I mean, what's the aim, the goal of these regulations and does it really help to slow down these big tech giants? Well, good afternoon, good morning, good evening everyone from where you stand. First, Mr. Fontaine, I would like to react a little bit with your presentation. You said in Europe, we don't have big tech companies, but we have regulation. And I know this is a maraudier. I know that this is a common sense and I know that you keep repeating this. Even if I could tell you that it's probably not the case and I will try to demonstrate this to you, but still. I don't feel comfortable with the way this has been presented because I don't consider that my job as being in charge of digital in addition to the single market is not to regulate, it is just to organize it and it's not against anybody. So myself, I will not speak about your farm or batting or whatever. I will just speak about the necessity that as politicians, we just have to put some rules in our digital space because of course we did it in the physical space. We did this in the sea space. We did this in the earth space. And now of course we have to do it also in the digital or information space. That's my job because in this space, a lot of activity occurs.  And if we listen to our people, our fellow citizens, by the way, everywhere on the planet, not only in Europe, including by the way in the US, we all remember what happened for capital. We just hear that there is a need to organize our digital space and see exactly what I will do and what I'm doing with our digital services act and our DMA digital market. Let's come with the first one. The first one is just again to put some rules to make sure that in a nutshell, realize and organize the fact that everything which is forbidden offline is forbidden online and everything which is accepted offline is accepted online. Simple sentence, simple words, not easy to do, but mandatory to do. Against no one, just for our people. And by the way, and I'm listening to what's happened in the States, it's exactly the same question. The second story is okay, but in this new information space, digital space, connect the way you want. Once you have put all these parts of information in, but okay, feel free to do it. You understand exactly what I mean. We just did also here to make sure we have some rules and to make sure that we have a fair competition, not against anybody. Because the last one we organized our digital space was in early 2000, you remember the Directive eCommerce, more than 20 years ago. So what we are doing now is organizing probably the rules for the next 10 to 20 years. And here, of course, we have to make sure that we will have fair competition, just fair competition, because this is what we need to innovate and to avoid, let's say, predatory behaviors, to avoid gatekeepers and behaviors. And it is here also against no one, because at the end of the day, even if we miss, I will conclude that here, even if we miss that absolutely certain, the first 12 of the data evolution slash revolution, the personal data, I am convinced that the new one which is coming now, the so-called industrial data, which is much higher, much bigger than the one we have to come with. And I'm sure that this user will understand exactly what I mean. We will, for this one, believe me, we are, and I will tell you, better position, that probably everyone, and this is where we focus my effort. And I want to organize this space to make sure that competition will allow everyone to be able to innovate and to expand themselves. But I may come back later on if you want on the DMA. But that's basically what I want to say. It's not against anybody. You will never listen to me saying it's against this or that. Because within the next 10 years, you know what, I am sure that you will see a new player in the industrial data space, unbelievable, very powerful. By the way, I have already two or three ideas of companies in Europe, but they will give this from me because I don't want to make new ones. Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Boton. And I'm sure Bank will have a lot to say about what you just said. Hi, Bank. Live from Boston, from the MIT. Can you hear us, Bank? Yes. Yeah, good. So you just heard the Commissioner. And of course, these are topics that you've studied for many, many years. You're still looking at that very closely. What do you think about the situation now? I mean, just not only in Europe. Europe is, of course, a main topic tonight today. But what is the, how can you react to just Jerry Boton just said? Well, I think first thing to say, I think there is a real discontinuity that has happened in the last two years or so. Maybe Luke will tell. It's even earlier. But I think something very special is going on. And what has happened in my one way of putting it, data has become a web driver. That's one of the big things. And so we are talking about regulating data a lot, privacy, and so on. So digitization, which has been with us for much longer, is not really the new thing. No kid on the lot. It's the value of data and the concern about the privacy of data and so on. So that's what we are talking about. I think in the use of data, Europe is definitely behind China. China hasn't even been mentioned here. China is really ahead of a lot of places. US is also. And so I would not be very casual about the fact that Europe is actually falling behind. And the question to me is, what are they going to do about is regulation? And I appreciate that we should perhaps use the word regulation, organization, but it's a little bit semantic. That's how Europe portrays itself in this space, for good or for bad. That's the way people look at it. Let me just say some facts that are disturbing. One of which is that among the top 10 biggest companies, or most valuable companies of all, there are no Europeans or EU companies. And they are, I think, seven or eight, depending on when we measure seven or eight US and a couple of, so they have fallen in value recently. So it keeps changing. The other thing that is true is that seven of those 10 are platform businesses. There's not anywhere inside. SAP, I believe, is the highest value platform business in Europe. And it's not, I don't think it's even in the top 20. So there are some facts here about it's not because there's less people in Europe, there's more people in Europe than in the US, for instance. But so we have to, I think, be realistic about this fact. The most shocking data that recently came on the page is that when you look at the top 100 most valuable startups in the world, and this is just, I would say in January or somewhere that it came out, there is not a single central European company in that. Take out Switzerland. But I talked about the EU. The two companies from EU are actually Klarna in Sweden and Bolton in Estonia. One of them are in the US. I'm talking now companies that haven't had a trade sale or haven't gone IPO, meaning that they haven't exited, so to speak. So what it tells me is not actually that there are no startups in Europe because I know they are in Finland, say Supercell is a valuable company, but it sold itself out to the Chinese. So it's not in this statistic. And so it seems like European companies don't grow in Europe. They sell themselves out somewhere and I'm sure Luke has something a lot to tell, but that's the typical pattern. There's actually no Portuguese company that just entered this data, so if you look at it today, Portugal has a big. The venture capital market this week, in fact Finland, the world place, has the most venture capital per capita in Europe, and Portugal is quite high too. So central Europe again is lagging behind and is investing actually more in traditional businesses like modernizing the auto business and so on. So I think that's something to be concerned about. I think that I don't want to speak to the regulation. Let me just come with what I think would be a positive step. And the positive step would be to focus and a positive step is that Europe has decided to invest in, you know, climate change and innovation and digitization. I would urge to focus some of that money around universities because if you look at the US, where are the centers of stock of business? You know, it's in Silicon Valley. Take out Stanford and there would be no Silicon Valley. Take out MIT and Harvard and there would be no pharma, you know, valley here in Boston. So things happen around universities and what's even more important to say, it's not driven by the research alone. It's actually driven very much by the undergraduate students. Those are the ones who start up businesses and look at Silicon Valley and you know, I'm sure you look would agree with me. A lot of them are undergraduates actually dropouts. We didn't finish even the undergraduate degrees. And so this understanding that it is actually the undergraduates should be in the focus here. It is a very important one message, I think, for Europe. Thank you, Ben. This is a very good transition with our other guest, with our fourth guest, Luc, a quarter of a century ago, across the Atlantic. He was a fresh diplomat from a very well-known French school and went to, I think you were maybe a training when you joined Silicon Valley, right, Luc? And never come back. You're still there 25 or 26 years later. What happened? And what is your vision? What's your analysis on how things have changed over the past few decades? And are you optimistic, pessimistic? Yeah, I'm very optimistic actually because I'm always optimistic. I'm working for a French company now, so you better watch out. Yeah, but I'm very optimistic and actually I'm not going to tell the story or the history, but I'm going to come back to regulation because this is, you know, what we're talking about. And really, I mean, it's weird because I'm seen as a pro-regulation guy, right? I mean, I'm an innovator and so on. But I love regulation, actually. I want regulation. I'm going to explain why. So first of all, I'm going to rebound on what Thierry Boton said. In the physical world, we are doing regulation. We have to regulate, and then we have to do the same thing in the digital world. That's totally true.  The issue, most likely, you know, in the digital world is that regulation is not that easy because it's not, you know, a physical space that is in 3D, right? So the space that is much more complicated to regulate, right? So anyway, what I'm saying here is that we need to regulate, but the reality is that in the digital world, because it's so complicated to regulate, it doesn't work very well to, for instance, prevent Facebook or whomever to do something that we don't want them to do. And they're still doing it because they can't go around. But I think that regulation has one virtue that is actually very, very good. It's education because when you regulate, somehow, you give the people, you know, some keys about what should happen and what shouldn't happen. You give them the rules. And so when they see that there is a rule, but there is regulation, they are wondering why it's happening. And then, you know, it's going to follow by having people saying, okay, if there is regulation, it's because, you know, there is something I shouldn't do. And they're going to ask for this thing that was in regulation. So actually, the reverse way it's going to come from the people at the end of the day. And when you see, for instance, you know, the latest Apple OS, iOS, that is basically cutting, I mean, doing some things that GDPR wanted to do. I mean, it's coming from the people because people asked for it. And Apple was smart enough, in this case, to, you know, provide to the people what they asked to do. It wasn't because of the regulation. They didn't do that, you know, in May 18, when the regulation came up. They did that two years later, because people were asking for it because the regulation had been made and had been taken by the people. This is what I believe. Maybe Thierry Breton, would you agree with that analysis? Is that also what you think and what Luc just said on of course, Bank, would you like to react on that? Well, you know, first, I really would like to tell you that in order to proceed, we have done the largest consultation ever. And not only in Finland, everywhere. We did the largest consultation ever for almost more than a year. We had 3,000 contributions from governments, NGOs, platforms, damage, the whole answer. And we did something which I believe it's pretty balanced, to make sure that we will do the right things. In order to do this, are you right? It's extremely complex to think how to organize it. But we know that we have to do it. We are politicians. It's our job. It's not to put barriers. It's just to give, I run many companies myself. You know what I needed, Ben? I needed to have visibility. I needed to know what I had to do and not to do. And then adapt myself. And they don't exist in the digital space. We just try to give these guidelines. They're not too strong. They're not too tough. But that's our guidelines. And by the way, Ben, I would like to ask you one question. Because you say that... Who are you asking? Everybody? Our professor from the other side of the Charles River. And you know, you say there's no capacity for startups in Europe and so on. It's not true. It's not true at all. Look at the crisis we are in. Come back one minute if you allow me. The vaccine strategy. This is a story of European startups. Name it. BioNTech developed finance in Europe with European money. Come back. Same story. Johnson. Same story. Oxford. Then married with AstraZeneca. Same story. On the five vaccines. Where they are now? Okay. It was developed. And the technology which was initiated in Europe, in Boston. But not too far from where you stay. I know. Four of the five vaccines have been developed by startups or academics in Europe with European money. But it's true. Thanks to American money, through the Barda, we have been able to accelerate then the roll out of these vaccines. Clinical trials. Not the science. It has been done in Europe with European startups. And that's the story that you need to have in mind. This is what's happening. I could tell you on the ground. Another question. You mentioned SAP. SAP is not a platform business. It's a software company. The value of SAP is $139 billion, which is small. Another very important European company which values in technology is twice as big as SAP. Do you know it? Does anyone know this company? It is from very far. Our most valuable European technological company. Totally indispensable for the digital space. Do you know this company? I would say ATOS. You know it. Because you were using it at Samsung. It's called SML. There's a world leader being able to make microchip down to two nanometers. 95% of the market value 280,000. That's close to LVMH, by the way. So in other words, I know that there is this story, what you described. I see another one on the ground. But it's true that we are still far. It's true that we have to catch up. It's true that we have to accelerate. And my mission is to make sure that I will be able to provide what is needed for this energy, for this young talents to do exactly what they did in the digital space, like what they did in the pharmaceutical space. So let's maybe we'll go back to Banked because he was asked a question and then we'll come back on this side of the Atlantic with Jacques, who has also something to say. Banked, do you want to react to the or answer the commissioner's question? Yes. So first of all, I did not say that Europe doesn't have any startups. I said that when they go exit, they go somewhere else often. That was my point. So it was a point of venture capital. I understand very well that the startup business in Finland is doing very well in some ways. But it's still true that if you ask an entrepreneur that's he or she want to want to sort of be in Europe or go into Silicon Valley, they take the Silicon Valley money, not because they have money, because this is not at all about money. This is about contacts, it's about experience and so on that look and talk about. China is a different story, but they have their own model of it as well. So I don't think we need to argue about that. I think we need to ask for Europe. And by the way, I'm totally European. I'm not an American citizen. So I feel like I have the right to engage in this conversation from the inside as opposed to outside in that sense. I am worried about this here. That's where I'm coming from. And I would love to see Europe prosper. And I think that Europe will be able to prosper. And that's why I suggested, I'm glad that they are focusing on innovation. But to take another issue, which is big, what's so special about data is the scalability. And the platforms and the scalability is the big new things that can be the new technologies.  And in that respect, payment systems turn out to be very important for us. So for the Chinese experience, payment systems, they really have only two private ones, Alipay and WeChat Pay. They are phenomenal, phenomenal drivers of the ecosystem and the fact that they get the data and process the data. This is not just about having the data, it is actually about using the data in some efficient way. And it is here, for instance, where the PSD2, which is very well-intentioned, is just, I mean, we can't start arguing, but PSD2 is meant to be a payment system, its payment system directive, take two. And it just, it basically gives it to the individuals to decide how the data is used and also for banks to be sort of the depositors or depositors of the data. And as an economist, I see a lot of free rider problems and other problems, you know, in terms of if you give it to the, which one is better, give it to somebody, sort of a coordinating player versus, you know, give it to individuals, I think that's going to be a slow process and that's why we don't see as high valuations even among the big data companies in Europe. Thank you, Bank. Jacques, you wanted to react maybe on what the commission has said and maybe on what Bank just said. Just two things. One thing on what Bank say, and I've got a question then for the three of them, actually. So one thing on what Bank said about universities, but I think it's a more general problem. I don't think that the, I mean, there is clearly a problem of funding of European universities, but right now I would be very much against, for instance, funding huge amounts to French universities without the reform of the university so that they function. There's a structural problem which has to be solved before you can ask our, you know, French people to put more money in that system.  Bank is saying Europe is late and the commissioner is saying Europe is doing things that needs to do more. So, you know, it's Boney Blanc Blanc Boney, as we say in French. So one thing which I would like you to discuss a little, which I think would be interesting for you to discuss a bit more, is what do you think are the priorities for European innovation, especially in the tech world? And in particular, I'd be very interested to know how Luc feels after now having put his toes back into a French, you know, European industry. You know, what does he think is going well? What does he think?  What are the bad points? What should be done? I think Luc is very direct and cash. I think he can answer that question, right? Yeah, I can answer it. I mean, I won't give you any secret because I don't have any. But what I can say, I mean, is that as Thierry Botton said it actually at the beginning as well, I mean, we have an incredible amount of very interesting things to do next. So we need a frame to do it. But once we have the frame, I really believe that in France in particular, because you see what I can talk about, we have a lot of very, very interesting things to do at the industrial level. We didn't dare, maybe, you know, not enough. But if I take the case of Renault, I mean, I really, really believe that we can transform Renault as a real digital company, right? I mean, today, obviously, you know, cars, it's metal, right? But I really believe we can because there is a lot, a lot of data that can be coming from those cars, from the people using the cars and from all that. So there is something to do. But I mean, we need a frame, we need to be sure that we're going to do it correctly. And we need to be sure that these data we're not going to give it to anybody or anyone, you know, without any, you know, money back or something. So that's something that is, I think, a strength that we have in all the old industry in Europe. Thierry Moton, is that, since you have both in you? No, I 100% agree with what Julia just said, 100%. Of course, we are here to do more. Of course, we want to do more. By the way, I agree also with Mr. Kramer when he says that don't put money in front of universities before big reforms. So that's, I think you're absolutely right. And I'm sure you have a good idea what to do here. But still, you know, I organized, if I may say so, our European single market in 14 ecosystems just to make sure that I will be able, it was very important for me during the crisis, because these ecosystems are, you can, you have the one from automotive industry, you have the one from tourism, you have the one from retail, you have the one from defense, you have the one from pharmaceutical industry. And of course, in these ecosystems, you have big companies, but you have a lot of small companies, medium sized startups, innovators, academic research centers. I put all this in these ecosystems, and you will be amazed how vibrant it is, how dynamic it is. And they all understand, they all understand that it will come with data and with exactly what you send industrial data. So then, of course, and of course, automotive industry, by the way, it's funny because we were thinking in the past centuries that we're not thinking, we realized in the past centuries that automotive industry was driven innovation. And then we thought at the beginning of the century when we heard of the platform, they're saying, we are doing everything, you're dead, that's okay, automotive industry is dead. And now, look what automotive industry is still driving big time innovation here again. So now I understand why you're back in the automotive industry coming from something, but still, my point here is that we will generate data like never. Today, the planet is 40 zettabytes of data. Most of them are personal data. During my mandate, it's four years, it's four years to go still. We multiply by four, most of them, it will be from 40 zettabytes to 175 zettabytes. Most of them will come from industrial data. And this is why we want to organize here because in the Data Governments Act, just to organize in the car industry for you. You have data which are extremely important for you, you will never change. But you have data that you provided, your data and connected car are providing probably 30 petal per day of data per day. That's a lot. You have now in your cars, you have supercomputers now, 10 years, they're HPCs. And of course, these data, you will be probably happy to share this with your peers because then you will be able to create innovation. So we are working on this to have the right data pool on a voluntary basis, allowing to share and to create innovation. So we're doing a lot of things here. It's just to get ready. It's just organized. Can I speak to this?  Well, this is very important. I think the mindset from my perspective is not the right one. I understand that you are thinking that you need to orchestrate the whole thing. But I tell you what, businesses are very good and very central in orchestrating things, both by agreeing with each other, various things, and also especially organizing, for instance, ecosystems. You just, why do you think that the ecosystems in the United States have grown so big and why they are equally big in Asia? Is that because the government has actually organized and orchestrated it or maybe it is because the government has not touched it? I mean, there is a problem besides, there's a problem with privacy. But to argue that the government has to somehow tell how these kids will play in the sandbox seems to be your error in mindset. It's not, you know, I can see privacy a big issue, but that's something that I actually think it should be handed to the government. So they should supervise it in some manner rather than letting individuals, doing it for the individuals so to speak, represent the individuals. But in terms of how you organize ecosystems and so on, I mean, the evidence is just obvious. It is that companies can do it very well themselves and they understand how to what they call internalized externalities. Just look at that.  Of course, I think there's a big misunderstanding. We are not organizing the ecosystem. The stakeholders are organizing it. Big misunderstanding. Okay, so we are not organizing ourselves to follow this ecosystem which has been fully organized, not by us. Why the companies?  I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm here as a commission by accident. I'm the first CEO being a commissioner. So I'm an accident of history. This is what, believe me, I'm 100% with you. And I'm avoiding, of course, my people to do what you say. This is again, in the end of the stakeholders, but guess what? Before I joined, my DG point of market, it's called DigiGrow, was organized exactly like you said in a communist country. I said, look, let's ask the industry how you want to organize themselves. They came back, it's 14. Okay, fine. Who are you? We are big companies, small companies that claim great. How do you want to organize yourself? Let us do, but not organize yourself to be our counterpart. This is what we do. We are doing exactly what you do. And you know what? It seems to work. I disagree with both last statements. I don't think it's working as well. And I don't agree that that's what you are doing. I mean, PSD2, for instance, is a good example of something that I think is a big issue. And you know how well it is. And actually the UK, UK is using it the best way, better than anybody inside the EU. UK has not privy to the details, but they seem to have been advancing the made use of the PSD, the payment system platform. But I think Europe could do. I mean, I think it's important to get the right mindset here. And frankly, I really don't understand what you mean by saying that you are following the business. It seems to me that there are fairly serious constraints on the business that you are putting in.  So that's hard to agree on that when you look at the United States and even China. So at the end of the day, you talked about China and the US, it's the same situation in the US. Do you first need to regulate and then do the company, let the company organize themselves? Or the contrary, just let the company organize themselves and then regulate?  Mr. Botton, you want to maybe rebound on what's, Mr... No, no, that's true. That's true. I am in contact, of course, with my counterpart in the US and the extremely interesting with what we are doing, because we did it again, but about starting by the business, as I said with the last consultation. It's not at all what has been described. It's absolutely not a top-down approach. Absolutely not. We are business-oriented people, too. So we know this extremely well. But on the other hand, we need to adapt ourselves. Let me give you an example here, which has nothing to do here again with the data governance, but still not too far. I have been in charge also, as you maybe know, of the vaccine delivery in the EU since the beginning of February. It has been painful. You know why it has been painful? Because we had absolutely no obligation in our pharmaceutical industry. Of course, there are some things, which is an industry which is for health reasons organized and regulated. But we were open to everyone and so on. And we had many supply chains everywhere in the world. Most of them were in the US. And the US took an executive order. They decided that not one single vaccine will leave the US until you get herd immunity in the US. And they decided that not one single component of the vaccine will leave the US. And they have many companies, European companies, having subsidiary in the US, in total blocked. They tried to engage and so on. And we were free. We are open. We are an open continent. Impossible to discuss with my counterpart, Jeff Zayans. And then we decided to put a tool, regulate, saying now we will control. I hate to do this, but I had to do this, to be able to get the vaccines for our people. And I said, look, everything now which will leave the Europe will need to have our approval, at least for the next export. And guess what? I started to enter into discussion with the US. They are still closed. They don't send one single dose outside of the EU. But at least I can reopen the supply chains. And that's an example where regulation, forced regulation, allows now to be the first continent in terms not only of discovery vaccines, but producing vaccines. That's just an example of sometimes need to adapt yourself, even if like me, we are not for regulation, for regulation, but you just need to adapt yourself. And you know, let's now think in the digital world, we will not regulate, we just need to adapt ourselves to this new world. That's it. But let's try to do it with everyone together. And you know what? When I'm discussing with all my friends or former friends, when I was a CEO of the digital environment, they understand very well what we are doing, extremely well. And to tell you the truth, they're quite supportive. So you're talking about the American but I know you're talking about Google and Facebook and all these guys or of course, yeah, you know that it's public. I think Jack wanted to intervene. Yeah, except if Luc wanted to say something because maybe one case study to go a little bit further on this is given that you're speaking on data. And I know that the commission has been very, very active on trying to promote European data space and so on. And I've been discussing that also. One of the big infrastructure of the next 10 years, which is going to be very important for data is cloud computing. Cloud computing right now is dominated by free American companies, Amazon, Microsoft and Google, who actually have been, I mean, the way we've been brilliant in the way in which they've developed this. So without even thinking about what do we need to do now, you know, given the importance of data, what went wrong in the fact that this new industry, you know, this new way of computing which was created in the last, basically developed in the last 10 years, why is it that it's free American companies who are totally dominating that market? I mean, and, you know, what does it mean? I mean, does it mean something in terms of our systems in Europe and what do we need to change? Luc, you want to take that one? I mean, the capital that was invested in those three companies that you are talking about, and there were not small companies when they started that, right? I mean, they were already very established company with a lot, a lot, a lot of money. And to create clouds, basically, you need to get a lot of money and to create in those big infrastructure without any return for a long time. So that's the main issue is that maybe in Europe or even in Asia, maybe, I mean, even though in Asia they had those companies and they did create their own clouds because they didn't accept to get any other clouds from anywhere else. But anyway, so maybe in Europe, we didn't have the capital to just back up this kind of infrastructure and this kind of business that would be long-term businesses. No, no, I mean, we have a capital. We are not a poor continent. Why doesn't our capital, why isn't our capital put to that use? This is a very real question, it seems to me. It's all, let me, can I say something?  This is a typical comment in the sense that the US has the money and this is about universities often. But why do they have the money? It's actually a sign of something that's working. And it's employing the money, just like Jacques said, there is the money here, but it's not being put into the use that apparently it should. So I think that really needs to rethink this whole thing. Let me say that what is happening in China and US is very different from each other. They are very different in terms of the system. And I'm not suggesting we would go in the Chinese direction, but we could still learn some things from China, that's for sure. But the key thing is that they both sides have left these companies to innovate. They have not started with regulation, because it's so uncertain. Data is a totally different animal to regulate than a traditional, because it's a non-rival good, as we call it. It's who should own it. We can't even put quantity constraints on data, because the value of data has to do with how it's used, and it can be duplicated. And so on. So it's a totally different world, at least for an economy, is to be looking at that. And they have left these markets work themselves out, or the systems, I should say, rather than marks. We made China left, let the Alipay and Tencent do what they pretty free hands to do. And by the way, other companies also. But now that they see what's happening, and when I look at the bigness of companies in the United States, I think they need to calm down on them somehow. That's that we have now seen how it plays itself out. So now we know, I think we are in better position to regulate in some manner. But I think my concern is that when you don't, when you are entering this totally new business, you have to be flexible. And I don't see the way the way you see it, Mr. Breton, that that somehow the system in Europe is very flexible. It has taken a long time to get there for obvious reasons. I'm not criticizing Europe. Europe is a collection of countries. It's not like United States or China, single countries. So there are a lot more challenges in Europe. But the fact one has to be willing to recognize these challenges, it seems to me. Otherwise, we are not going to get to speed or development that I would like to see. Thank you, Brent. We only have a few minutes to go. And I would just have to make a last round around this table of your feeling. Let's go just beyond regulation and see how optimistic or pessimistic you are about Europe in this digital arena. Luke, let's start with you maybe as the expert in artificial intelligence. What are the chances of Europe and France to succeed in that scene? Yeah. So I mean, I have a very optimistic view again for the French technology there because frankly, today and tomorrow AI is just about mathematics, right? And we are one of the best people, best country in mathematics in general. We can count that with the middle, the field middles that we are getting. But anyway, so I really believe that our engineers, and we talked about education before and we said that it's not very good, but I don't know. But I mean, what I see actually is that it's pretty good. All the engineers that I see coming my way or that I'm hiring in both sides of the Atlantic and when they are French engineers, I see that they are very, very good. So I really believe that our education system produces some very good people to do specifically AI. And that's why I'm optimistic that we can have a lot of good companies. I mean, now a lot of those companies, the startups that were created in France, I mean, for the past almost 10 years now, they are actually producing and using those new talents, you know, in a better way than it was 20, 30 years ago, I think. So I think it's changing. And I think that for specifically the startups, the talents in startups and AI, we have a big, big chance on the French side. So how is the French economic professor seeing the future on that, on that topic? I'm not sure. I mean, the middle, it can go both ways. So just one thing, because I mean, it's such a big question that I can't speak about everything. I've been working quite a bit on the DMA and trying to understand, you know, what's behind it and the theory behind the DMA and so on. And it's clear that the DMA has got some very good components and has got some aspects, you know, which I find a little bit more iffy. And whether or not it's, and very, lots is going to depend on the implementation. Okay. So I think we, so we're speaking about the regulation of platforms in particular. I think Europe has set up some regulatory framework, but regulatory framework leave, I mean, they're not just rules, they have to be managed and so on. And I think that lots of what's going to happen in the next 10 years is going to depend on the way in which we manage those regulations. And that's going to be a really interesting right to follow. Banked. I'm sure there's still something optimistic in you about Europe, deep inside. I'm very optimistic, like Luke, on this new technology. I'm not excited about it. I mean, following it, it's fascinating. It's absolutely fascinating. But one has to understand that in order to turn it to economic benefit, you need organization. And what we are debating here in some sense is how much should be government, how much should be private. And that boundary is hugely important. But where do you draw it? And my comment is that I think, I think we should give more slack to the companies in the beginning and invest in training of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship in the US by these data that I gave you is not what it could be might be. So it's all about organization. There's nothing wrong with the intelligence in Europe. They are just as intelligent as the US or more so. You know, the question is how do they organize themselves? And is it the government or is it the private side and where the boundary goes? And for my taste, the boundary is not right right now. And with you, you'll have the last word. I think it will be definitely a pre-COVID and a post-COVID situation. Because the US government never put, and by the way, some in Europe, but not like the US government, as much money in private companies like Naver because of the crisis. And it's funny because we are in a situation where we see because of the crisis, the government is putting a lot of money, a lot of money in companies directly or indirectly, a lot. By the way, they're playing in China also. By the way, they're playing field here. We don't seem to watch very carefully. For somebody who met also, you're always carrying your organ in the private sector, and they're running company. This is a real scary. And there's a big difference between the US and Europe. We are lagging behind the US injecting tons of public money in private companies. Let me give you one example, just to end, because it was one question, which was the rest. Why did they miss the cloud? It's a good question. Because of course, they had the data because they had to build the servers because they had to do it for themselves, for their own needs. This is how they build AWS, by the way. We know the story. And that's why they are successful, which is not exactly the case on Google Cloud when they wanted to start from scratch. But still, now they all understand that the next fight will be in industrial data, with the industrial cloud, with very different KPIs, very different latencies, very different cybersecurity constraints, and no one insists on the market. So, Pentagon launched a big call for tender. And look, this is what I need. Only US companies were allowed to build. Fine. I respect this, and I can understand. Two of which AWS and Microsoft fighting like hell, because that was so much money given by the Pentagon for this. Finally, you know the story. I got the phone, everybody was just doing it. So, you know, that's the new world. A lot of public money. That's for me, I can company. It's good. I don't criticize, but this is what happened. So now, what was my answer? My answer was, okay, look, let's have all the players from the industry damage. What do you think are the constraints? What exactly you need in terms of industrial cloud? What is your requirement? And they work together as they have their own KPIs, as they have their own tools. And now we are using what are part of our capacity to do it openly, but to invest also with member states to do a little bit what the US is doing for our own companies. Okay. Well, thank you very much for this. Thank you. Thank you very much, Thierry Broton. Thank you, Banked. And thank you, Luc, on the other side of the Atlantic. Merci, Jacques. Thank you to you all. Stay safe. Merci à tous de nous avoir suivis.


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There's been a lot of good cellies in the league so far, but let's talk about the top three from week 7. Starting with the Dolphins, Tyreek Hill is no stranger to a good cellie, and here's another one. He's a fish on a line. And then the Patriots celebrating Mike Kosicki's game-winning touchdown against Buffalo, and if you've seen Mike Kosicki do the gritty before, it's not pretty. Or we're going to show you anyway. And finally from Monday Night Football, after Christian McCaffrey fumbled and the Vikings recovered, the whole defense went to the end zone and did the limbo. And those are your best celebrations from week 7. Make sure you come back next week to see the best from week 8.


Globally, we're facing an unprecedented population expansion of adolescents. The largest generation of young people in the history of humans is coming of age. More than 2 billion young people exist, and 85% of them are in the developing world. Why are there so many young people? Tremendous progress has occurred from global efforts focused on women, infant, and children that's leading to young, infants, and young children surviving and thriving in adolescence, and puberty has been happening at younger ages, so there's been this surge of young people. So why is this a problem? Why is this a challenge? In part, it's because so many of these young people are coming of age in desperate conditions. Among 9 to 13 year olds, a third of them are living in extreme poverty on less than a dollar a day. Among 18 to 25 year olds globally, 40% are either unemployed or making so little money they can't escape poverty. Even rich nations in Europe at this point, 25% of young adults are unemployed. Adolescents is a period of intense vulnerability for both experiencing and creating behavioral and emotional problems. It's a time of increasing accidents, suicide, homicide, substance use, addiction, depression, mental health problems, the radicalization of youth. It's a time when these impacts can have long-term effects, and yet it's equally important to understand adolescents is a period of enormous opportunity. It's a time of growth and development and learning and adaptation. It's a period of brain plasticity when the ability to learn and have impact can have an incredibly positive impact. Taken together, this incredible set of vulnerabilities and opportunities creates a precarious moment in human history. We have this surge of an incredible unprecedented number of youth coming of age under dire challenges and circumstances, and we have this unbelievably unique opportunity of this transformation of the digital global revolution, of young people's ability to access the information of the world, connect in new ways. So the stakes are really high. One of the things that we are very interested in is how understanding these opportunities for learning can help to inform positive intervention to make the positive direction happen. We're really interested in understanding how neuroplasticity creates windows of opportunity for learning that can help to emphasize these positive paths. At the Center on the Developing Adolescents at UC Berkeley, we're working to bring together the best science and policy in this area to address these issues about what are these unique opportunities? How do we understand the growth and adaptation and learning potential and ways to tap into that to have a positive impact and inform policy in these areas? We're increasingly with a lot of collaborations and people across the world working in these areas, understanding not just the brain development, but the psychological and social development that at the onset of puberty results not only in physical growth and changes, but changes in brain behavior and social interactions that creates unique leverage for certain kinds of learning. These are really complex issues, but the plasticity for adolescents has some interesting implications. What is plasticity? In many ways, this is the capacity of experience and behavior and practice to shape the connections of neural circuits and systems. Infants, for example, are naturally drawn to pay attention to language, to learn these words, to practice them, to learn how to walk by practicing. These are semi-natural processes that will shape the brain. The question is, what's the equivalent for adolescents? What are the natural attractors that adolescents want to pay extra attention to biologically that really begin these cascades of rapid learning? These are complex issues, but we're beginning to understand some themes. The unique learning that seems to be potentiated in adolescents is about social and emotional identity and place. It's this finding a valued place as an individual. It's a period when these igniting passions and a desire to have a larger contribution create a unique capacity to be human and take these feelings and channel them into paths of learning and mastery. I love this quote from Maya Angelou. I've learned that people will forget what you said, they'll forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. That principle is amplified tremendously in adolescents. As puberty kicks in and testosterone and other hormones go up, they become sensitized to feelings of being admired and respected, or being diminished or disrespected. These insights create an interesting angle to tap into the learning potential. The stakes are enormous. There's a lot that hangs in the balance with this unprecedented number of youth coming of age in these risky vulnerable circumstances, but also this unique transformational capacity for communication linking social connection. This creates a compelling case for developmental science to contribute to the teams, the people trying to make a difference. People at this World Economic Forum, world leaders, economists, scientists from different backgrounds in education to say how can we use our knowledge to help potentiate these positive directions and trajectories. If we're successful tipping this in a positive direction, this could be the beginning of the most exciting time to be alive. Thank you very much.


This is the WooCommerce talk about promoting and increasing conversions with WooCommerce core functionality. So let's begin. So real quick, my name is Tim Howe. I work for our Hall Internet Marketing. We're a Woo expert agency. I'm a web developer by trade, and that is my Twitter handle. I tweeted out these slides earlier, so if anyone wants to grab a copy or follow along, just check that out. What we're going to be talking about in this is really quick go over some core features that are in WooCommerce that I think are sometimes overlooked or underutilized. And we're going to just cover these topics of real quick product types, related products, upsells, cross-sells, ways to promote on your site, and then kind of the sales coupon deal, all the fun stuff. Just a quick note, this is all going to be stuff that is available in WooCommerce core, but it is very helpful to also have a theme that is WooCommerce compatible to make sure all these items work. Real quick, we're just going to start with product types. A lot of times, it's important to make sure you're using the correct product type for its intended need. Real quickly, the primary ones, just about 90% of sites we'll use, are going to be simple and variable products. Really quickly, simple products are essentially, I have a beanie hat. One size fits most. It comes in one color. There are no options, so it's a simple product. Variable products are something more like a shirt. I sell this shirt. It comes in different sizes, small, medium, and large, so we allow the customer options on selecting in that product. Essentially, that product is, in that scenario, there are three options. It's similar to having three separate products, but then displayed and promoted on a single page. Additional opportunities, which we'll be covering later, are grouped products. These are one of the items that is often underutilized. It can allow you an additional page for getting more traffic, something else for people to land on, but it's more for products that you have in your catalog that may be sold as a group together. So I sell a full outfit of shirt, pants, and hat. All of those can be sold separately on my site, but then I can also create them as a grouped product. So it alleviates a couple steps for my customers. They can then just purchase this one group product, get all three items sent right to them, and additionally, I then have another landing page where I can write unique content and copy to drive more traffic to my site. And last, external or affiliate products.  So this is especially helpful if you want to do drop shipping or something. Don't want to deal with actual inventory warehousing or actually shipping. You can create a product page, promote that product, and hopefully you'll have an affiliate link, and then it'll actually send them to another site where they make that purchase. The idea being you're providing the service of marketing for that other company. And they're handling all the actual logistics of running the e-commerce site for you. So there's also virtual and downloadable products we aren't going to really cover, in case your product is virtual or downloadable. So no actual stock on hand. So related products, upsells, and cross-sells. This is one of the bread and butter of e-commerce. It helps you organize and kind of catalog and set up your site to essentially allow customers to find exactly what they want and potentially something they didn't know you had. It's important to make sure you're categorizing and tagging products properly. Categories would be more general things for throughout your entire store. I like to think of again going to the apparel, like selling apparel or outfits. You may have a kids or men's, women's, kids categories as well as shirts, pants, all that. So tags are a little bit more loose, so you could use tags to maybe denote like colors, but then it also offers you another option to help customers find what they're looking for. Those taxonomies are what really drive related products. So related products are basically anything kind of related to the current product they're looking at. It's helpful, and we'll go through a couple of examples of kind of link building and showing off what you have in the store. Upsells are also usually displayed along with related products on the product page. These are helpful to allow you to kind of push people to buy higher margin products, so things that'll get you more revenue. And then cross sells are usually displayed within the checkout or cart area. It's just another opportunity to kind of get people to hopefully buy more. So we'll start looking at a couple examples of that. So here's a real simple, this is just using the storefront theme with stock WooCommerce and the WooCommerce sample data. I set up a store related products, so these are all kind of related because they are under the accessory category. So I'm selling a hat. Hey, you might want to buy some slick shades to go with a new hat, so I want to make sure you know I have that and potentially you'll buy a $80 pair of sunglasses as opposed to an $18 hat, or hopefully both. The benefit to this too is it's going to get you link building throughout your site, so as crawlers come here or even users, they're going to come to this one page and then notice you have a lot more accessories to offer. The one item that might prevent you from wanting to put related products on your product page is if they are on a very high margin product for you, you may want to not include them just to try to help push them through making that decision for the higher margin product. So we'll now look at a couple other examples. Upsells, I find these are almost rarely used, but they're extremely helpful. So in this scenario, I have the beanie with just a logo. Knowing that you're looking at the beanie with the logo, I could try to upsell you to why not get the whole set. So this is a grouped product. It offers more to my customer. It's just higher value, higher revenue and hopefully efficiency. So they go from buying one beanie to buying three products from my store. Here's an upsell example of kind of like an alternative option. So in this scenario, I'm selling this beanie. They're both the same price, so it's not necessarily more revenue, but this beanie might be cheaper to manufacture. So I'm not printing a logo on it. It's $18 for both, but I may be only spending $5 to produce that beanie and $6 to produce the one with the logo. So it's a nice upsell to be like, if maybe this is another alternative for you, it's gonna be a higher margin for me. And then lastly, similar product, but kind of the reverse. They may have the same margin, but obviously this one being $20 versus $18. If they're still kind of, I'm paying six bucks to produce both, I'm gonna get a higher margin out of getting them to spend more on my site. So those are upsells. They're generally shown on the product page. And again, too, they have the benefits of the related products, but hopefully you're gonna be getting more money out of these items.  So these are kind of a little interesting. They're usually wanna be products that are complimentary to the item they're getting. So again, these are kind of accessories along with the accessory you're currently buying. The hope being that you've come here and you've committed to buying the beanie, maybe I can convince you to get the sunglasses too. You might, too, run into a scenario where it might not be in your benefit to include cross sells on the checkout process. If they've already put the beanie in their cart, you might wanna distract them with something else and try to push them to that proceed to checkout to get them through the conversion process faster. But it's definitely a tool in the toolbox to keep in mind when building the site. Next promotions. I find a lot of times these are the most underutilized are almost not known about items. So low stock notification, in the WooCommerce settings, you can set stock notifications. This will basically appear and let people know how many you have on hand and you can kind of create some urgency. And this is right in core. So it's not like a third plugin you have to add in and it's just a handy tool. Additionally, store notice. If you do a fresh install of WooCommerce, a lot of times the store notice is automatically turned on and it says like this is a demo store. So things aren't actually being sold. A lot of times I think people look at that store notice and say, okay, I see the point of this is like kind of to alert people this site's in development or under instruction. What they don't realize is they can change that messaging. So it's a handy tool. It usually displays at the, well in the store front theme at the very bottom and we'll take a look at that example. And it's a nice unobtrusive way to kind of have almost like a pop up or a notice on all your pages about just about anything you need. And then again, grouped products. We've kind of touched on this. We'll look at a more concrete example. It's really just a nice way to create more pages that aren't necessarily just copies of an existing product. So if we look at, so here's the low stock notification example. I basically just said I'm managing stock on this product. I've only got 12 left. I've set the notice too to kind of use that phrasing of I only have 12 left to kind of create that urgency. And I hate to use this term, but the fear of missing out. A lot of times that will just push the customer over the edge to make that commitment to start going through the conversion process. And then again, it just informs the customer. So whether that's necessarily true or not, you know, you can fudge it a little bit, but a lot of times if you're willing to do inventory management as part of kind of like the workflow, this can be a helpful tool. Here's the store notice. So you can see down below you can just access this in the customizer, turn it on and even schedule it. So I set up a coupon that's gonna go live at midnight tonight. And then I can also set the store notification to go live at midnight tonight. And I just informed my customers, hey, you saved 25% this week on t-shirts only. And that'll automatically add. It's nice and unobtrusive on like kind of a third party plug-in where you might use a pop-up. In fact, Google kind of likes using these low bar, like at the bottom of the page displays, as opposed to pop-ups, because yeah, they will ding you, especially on mobile, taking over somebody's screen with a full pop-up will kind of hurt the mobile experience and could potentially hurt your SERP score. And this is right in core and unobtrusive follows those guidelines. And you can really have it say anything and paired with a couple other extensions. If you get any ones from like the WooCommerce marketplace, it's an extremely powerful tool. And then store, or dang it, I made a typo. Grouped products. So it's more products, more revenue, an additional landing page. So all of these products have their own landing page, essentially their own product page. I'm getting SERP traffic to those. Additionally, I can, with some minor content tweaks, promote those products as a group item. So now I have another landing page that I'll hopefully appear in SERPs. If somebody searches for my smiley face beanie, the smiley face beanie will come up first and then this group product will come up second. So you're just getting more spaces in those search results and hopefully streamlining the process for customers to buy more from you. And these ones are a bit more utilized and understood, but I think they're not always used to their full potential is sales coupons and free shipping. So sale prices can be set on the product level and it's just a simple sale of it was this price, it's now this price and you can schedule them both to start and stop. It's an extremely handy tool. Coupons, coupons can get pretty complicated and be kind of daunting, but out of the box, WooCommerce offers a lot of simple coupon interactions and these can be used just to nudge people to kind of get through and do those conversions. And then last but not least, free shipping. Generally you set this free shipping as an option either with a coupon and a minimum spend or a coupon or just a minimum spend. I find using it, offering it with just a minimum spend is astronomical and helping you push people to buy more and hit that like mark for the free shipping. So we'll look at a couple of quick examples of that. So these products are on sale. As you can see they're tagged with the little sale tag next to it and then you have the visual of like it was this price, now it's this price. This can help people think, well I'm getting a great deal, I better pounce on it now. If you tie this into with the store notice, so you're saying like sale on all t-shirts, you don't even need a coupon, just go to the t-shirt category and you'll see everything's on sale this week only. So you've then created kind of that fear of missing out. And just you've kind of presented it out of a lower price point, so they better hop on the deal. Additionally too, there are like short code aspects to this. So like in this example, I've created a page, I've used the sale short code. So basically this page will show everything on my site that is on sale. And that is a great tool to set up and then you can just be like, I'll run a PPC campaign, just drive all my traffic to my sale product and get rid of all my overstocked items. Coupons, so again, everyone loves a deal. You can set these again kind of in tandem with the store notification, I think they help create kind of that fear of missing out, the opportunity for a deal and can get you just to push people to make that commitment in purchasing the product. They can also help you kind of, if you have overstocked items, kind of similar to sales, just to plead those items. The added benefit to these over sales is there is a lot of tracking demographics to it too as you're asking kind of users to do that other step and allows you to kind of track, okay, I gave them this extra task, they're willing to do it for it and then you can kind of see kind of that penetration of all the promotion for that coupon and how effective it was. And then last but not least, free shipping. Using it with the coupon is a good option. I think though using it with just the minimum spend is the way to go. If you can swing it and you probably could depending on where you set the free shipping threshold, you just eat that shipping cost, but you know if you can push somebody to spend $100 on your site, they should more than make up for it. Should be going to use, it's really just kind of moral logistical question if you can swing it or not, but it's an extremely helpful tool to get people to spend more. My client, sorry, company, but that works really well. I have a little sugaring business in Syrup is they just up their prices by dollar and they realize that they're just, they're not costing anybody and so they do a hard dollar minimum and all the orders come in over a hundred. They get a bulk of it instead of that $26 or whatever. Yeah, it's perfect. Especially too if you can do that nice pricing math of to get over a hundred, you're actually 105. But it's again, an extremely helpful tool and everyone loves the deal. And also with the culture of kind of Amazon Prime, it's almost like you need to offer it at this point. So it might not be two day, but everyone wants free shipping, so. So yeah, just some quick final thoughts to kind of wrap up everything. All these items were just in new commerce core.  You can go home today and start enacting all these changes. Additionally, WooCommerce documentation is excellent. They have a lot on store managing, using all these core features, kind of use case examples, just about everything you need. So in these slides too, anything that's been underlined is a link to the documentation for that item as well. And I would just say, explore your own site settings and themes. There's a lot in there, it's a lot to take in, but you know, just go through everything. Understanding kind of like the settings and the status reports will just help you improve your business more and more. And that's kind of like a bonus thing. I know a lot of people like to use third party plugins. I would strongly suggest checking out the WooCommerce marketplace, those ones. So like if it's in the .org repository, it has gone through a vetting process. If it's in the WooCommerce extension marketplace, it's gone through a more extensive vetting process. Additionally, it does cost money, but it's kind of a scenario you get what you pay for. So if you're getting a free third party plugin, I would just be weary of, you know, how much they're gonna support it. And if it's gonna actually do what you want. Again, they'll try it out if it works perfect, great, go with it. But I would definitely check out the WooCommerce extensions cause a couple of those combined with these core features and you can really get your site humming. So thank you very much. And if there are any questions. They just discovered that their site system does not allow them to do any inventory. So they need to literally open a hall up with that. And so they're starting over. The reason I'm here is I'm wondering if we could help them. I'm super well versed in the loop. I'm not sure as far as how specific you can get with options as far as different sizes, different features, all that kind of stuff. So that's kind of an interesting question. So you can do a lot with variable products. I will say there is an issue with them. As you add more options, it gets exponentially more complicated. So like with the shirt example, if I offer it a shirt in small, medium, large, that's three sub-products under that. If I also offer it in red, green, or blue, that's now six. And then you're gonna just keep multiplying and multiplying. There is a theoretical limit to how many sub-variations you can have. So some things to look at, I would say outside of core, you can look in the WooCommerce marketplace. And depending on how customizable the items are, you could look at a couple of, I would Google like WooCommerce grouped or clustered products. They have a couple extensions like chain products, mix and match products, and component products. Additionally to, there is a, I don't know if you work with Gravity Forms.  So it's a paid form plug-in, but I think it's worth its weight. That can actually be attached with a WooCommerce plug-in. So you can, essentially it's usually used for products. So like if I was selling a ring, I can have a Gravity Form added to the product page to say, what would you like engraved on it? And then I then have a text field and that text field then gets added to kind of the order meta. So as the order goes through, I then know on the ring, I need to print like love forever and ever or something. So those are a couple resources I would check out. Additionally to, I would just mess around with the different attributes and see if you can just get it as a straight variable product. Any other questions? Yeah. I mentioned the low stock option. Do you find that it drives more traffic, just as sort of that urgency thing? Because one of my customers has basically almost not run out of money in the jewelry. But we did like use a coupon to push something, or we made something go on sale for something that she wanted to get rid of. But I was wondering if the low stock option was also a variable, is it? I mean, you said it, you just got a variable price.  The one issue with that, and there is a setting for this too, is I would set up low stock notifications. There's another notification setting to basically say when this product is getting low and it hits this threshold, email me. So that way, you kind of synthetically said you have a low stock, so you say I only have 100 of these left. As it starts draining, it'll kind of create more of that buzz and that fear of missing out. And then realistically, I still have 200 in back. So once it hits that threshold, I then bump it back up. And you know, it's kind of a standard business practice because it's like you just got more in, so. I wanna hear marketplace products. Would DPS typically plug in? Yep. My customer purchased it and maybe this is something I can ask you afterwards, but one of them installed a VDAL or that I went and installed it and the settings won't tie with their off-rack DPS standard rates. So maybe something I just configured incorrectly? Possibly, I mean the biggest, I find the biggest pain points with running an e-commerce site is taxes and shipping. Because it's just. Well, the answer, we have no taxes, so that's fine, but. Yeah, so I would think it might just be kind of a deep dive into kind of the UPS documentation and reviewing the settings. Any other question? Cool, I think we finished in just the right amount of time. Bayside for some beers.