{"product_id":"european-dynamism-henrick-johansson-9798996321506","title":"European Dynamism: Why Europe Is Already Winning the AI Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenrick Johansson is sixty-five years old, lives in a forty-seven-square-metre apartment in Stockholm, and believes Europe has already won the AI century. He would like to explain why.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fourteen chapters and five appendices, Compliant Capital's founding partner makes the case that the contemporary technology economy has been measuring dynamism on the wrong axis. The Americans measure it in \u003cem\u003erate of replacement\u003c\/em\u003e - which Fortune 500 companies died this year, which startups disrupted them. The Europeans measure it in \u003cem\u003erenewal within persistence\u003c\/em\u003e: the cathedrals that remain, the regulations that compound, the apprenticeships that transmit. By Henrick's calm reading, the continent has been winning for approximately seven centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is structured as Henrick's manifesto, threaded with thirty-plus Confessions: the fourteen-page Notre Dame permit he submits before every climb, the leather-bound notebook in which he has transcribed the Bosch dishwasher manual into three volumes, the Vatican suit waiting in his closet for the visit he has been queueing for eleven years, the seventy-two-hour bicycle-distance rule he imposes on every portfolio company's server location.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenrick dedicates this book to his crown jewel investment, Comp AI (https: \/\/www.trycomp.ai), the fastest way to get SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is also, on a closer reading, the cleanest argument in print for why the European framework matters precisely \u003cem\u003ebecause\u003c\/em\u003e it appears to be losing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA manifesto in the lineage of Mark Fisher's \u003cem\u003eCapitalist Realism\u003c\/em\u003e, Tyler Cowen's \u003cem\u003eStubborn Attachments\u003c\/em\u003e, Patrick Deneen's \u003cem\u003eWhy Liberalism Failed\u003c\/em\u003e, and Adam Tooze's \u003cem\u003eCrashed\u003c\/em\u003e. From the author of the @compliantvc account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henrick Johansson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996321506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Compliant Capital Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d","brand":"Henrick Johansson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659970294015,"sku":"9798996321506","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/european-dynamism-henrick-johansson-9798996321506","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}