Marvin Baumann | EU Inc. and Euromaxxing our Future

Europe has the talent, capital and industrial base to compete with the US and China — so why does it still make building companies so unnecessarily hard?In Episode 24 of The European Republic, our host Nikodem Skrobisz talks with Marvin Baumann, investor at Prototype and one of the core team members behind the EU Inc. initiative, about fixing Europe’s fragmented startup ecosystem — and the much bigger vision beyond it. From EU Inc. and European federalism to robotics, brain drain, high-agency culture and Euromaxxing, this is a conversation about building a Europe that is richer, more ambitious, more technologically advanced and more optimistic.Learn more about EU Inc: https://www.eu-inc.org/ Marvin’s Eurofuturism Essay: https://baumann.vc/blog/eurofuturismProtoype Capital: https://www.prototypecap.com/Europropaganda Merch Shop von Prototype: https://prototype-shop.com/Dealroom on European-founded unicorns: https://dealroom.co/resources/european-diaspora-index-founder-flows/American Braindrain Pitch: https://www.rebuilding.tech/China being the largest economy in the world until the end of the 19th century: https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2023—Find Marvin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marvin-baumann/Follow Marvin on X: https://x.com/MarvinTBaumann/Subscribe to Marvin on Substack: Get full access to Nikodem at nikodemskrobisz.substack.com/subscribe