[dumbfounder]

So is your solution that Europe only creates small companies?

[swiftcoder]

If this is in reference to the parent's mention of Hauwei (200,000 employees, ~$120 billion annual revenue), then I'm not sure we all share your idea of a small company

[ExoticPearTree]

Small company can mean different things to different people. Considering that some larger Chinese companies have north of 2 million employees, 200k is quite a small number actually. Go figure.

[Sargos]

You have to create small companies in order to build big ones

[fsflover]

Some people do think so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43156785

[pjmlp]

My solution is that sustainable companies are more worthwhile to society, than late scale capitalism companies that always lay off employees when the exponential growth targets set by their C suites aren't met.

[ExoticPearTree]

The only reason companies exist is to make money for the founders and/or shareholders. Everything else is a pipe dream.