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~Any borderline-large European tech company will have an office on the US west coast, for sales if nothing else. And probably sales engineering. The timezone difference is eight to ten hours; there is really no way around it.

(I did work for one which had an office in Vancouver, instead; same tz.)



Mistral just hired as CMO a Seattle based former Amazon/Google VP¹ , so seems their US based presence is growing.

¹ The one locally famous for being sued by Amazon for non compete back when non compete were a thing: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-sues-former-aws-marketi...


And US users spend much more than their EU counterpart




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