Past couple of decades, how many exactly? I mean Apple (48), Microsoft (51), Amazon (32), Nvidia (33), Oracle (49), Adobe (44), Cisco (42), Intel (58), Google (28) aren’t exactly young.
With the exception of Tesla (23) and Meta (22), USA is not brimming with large new tech companies from the past decades either.
I mean King, Spotify, and Klarna are not trillion dollar companies. But at least they are younger than Google.
American companies at around Spotify's market cap include Palantir (23), CrowdStrike (15), AppLovin (14), Uber (17), ServiceNow (22), Robinhood (13), AirBNB (18), Snowflake (13).
CrowdStrike (15)
EU equal of similar age and employment: SAP (31) or Darktrace (13)
AppLovin (14)
EU equal of similar age and employment: Delivery Hero (15), Infineon (27) or Evolution (20)
Uber (17)
EU equal of similar age and employment: Klarna or Bolt
ServiceNow (22)
EU equal of similar age and employment: Mistral
Robinhood (13)
EU equal of similar age and employment: Revolut or eToro
AirBNB (18)
EU equal of similar age and employment: Booking.com, Amadeus, or Accor
Snowflake (13)
EU equal of similar age and employment: OVHcloud, Arm, or ASML