2025-12-26 22:20:35

The regulatory overreach we're witnessing is quietly crushing startup value creation. When both US and European authorities push aggressive antitrust enforcement without coordination, it doesn't level the playing field—it shrinks it. Startups lose negotiating power. Their ability to partner, grow, and compete gets boxed in by conflicting regulatory regimes. Here's what stings most: courts across different jurisdictions can essentially veto what might be economically sound decisions. European regulators blocking deals or strategies that work fine in Silicon Valley isn't consumer protection—it's just friction that bleeds capital and kills momentum. The irony? These enforcement actions claim to protect competition, but they often achieve the opposite: they make it harder for scrappy teams to scale fast enough to compete with entrenched players who already have legal armies and regulatory relationships.

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DAOdreamer

· 7h ago

This regulation is really outrageous. Just two big bosses ignoring each other and still trying to choke startup companies. Oh my God, courts in Europe and America are like whack-a-mole. A deal that was going smoothly in Silicon Valley gets suddenly cut off by Europe. Isn't that absurd? Honestly, small teams end up suffering the most, while big companies have already hired a bunch of lawyers. I don't even know how to complain anymore. The logic that protecting competition ends up killing it... As expected, the biggest enemy of startups isn't competitors but these office-bound bureaucrats...

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BearMarketMonk

· 12-26 22:50

Regulation has really backfired; instead of protecting the competitive landscape, it has ended up killing the survival space for new players...

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AltcoinTherapist

· 12-26 22:49

Regulation is really making things difficult, small teams are getting squeezed and it's becoming increasingly hard to operate --- These two giants in Europe and America are not uniting, but instead are choking entrepreneurs to death --- They claim to protect competition, but in reality, they are building high walls for big companies, it's really ironic --- Compliance costs are almost eating up the seed round funding... --- There are so many rules and restrictions, but instead, innovation is being hampered --- Big companies have long employed a bunch of lawyers; how can small workshops compete? --- That's why big companies are getting bigger, because small ones simply can't survive --- Incoherent regulation is more annoying than no regulation at all --- So-called anti-monopoly measures, but in the end, they help monopolistic enterprises? --- A strategy that works in Silicon Valley is overturned by European courts—who can stand that?

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HodlKumamon

· 12-26 22:46

Xiong Xiong just calculated, and now the financing success rate of startups has dropped by 18.7% compared to the same period last year, is it a coincidence? Wait a minute... Is this wave of supervision to help large companies card small teams? The data shows that this has strengthened market concentration Really, cross-border matryoshka supervision is like installing twenty firewalls in your financing plan, and the speed of burning money is skyrocketing, and there is no hope at a glance This is outrageous, and the nominal protection competition results have become giants To be honest, Xiong Xiong is a little anxious.,How can the early project be fun like this.

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RugpullTherapist

· 12-26 22:41

Regulatory authorities are really doing more harm than good... The US and Europe are each acting independently, and small teams are getting stuck in the middle. To put it simply, big companies can afford legal battles, while ambitious entrepreneurs like us are the ones getting trapped. This isn't about protecting competition; it's essentially giving gifts to the giants.

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FrontRunFighter

· 12-26 22:37

ngl this is just regulatory sandwich attack in slow motion. watching regulators frontrun innovation while pretending it's about "consumer protection"... the irony tastes like gas war fees. big players already got their legal moats built, now they're weaponizing compliance to extract value from actual builders. classic dark forest behavior, just with bureaucrats instead of bots.

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