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.