Berlin

“And so London is ahead. But if you look Berlin's on a faster growth trajectory.”

“And I think, if anything, Berlin, it's easier to do that than it is in London right now. And Berlin's got a little bit of a zeitgeist moment right now, And the immigration is slightly easier and it's slightly more attractive to people coming from the US.”

“You know, I'm not sure there's going to be one or I, I'm not sure it's, there's necessarily for one to emerge. I think London is, is doing well. Berlin is showing a lot of energy, but you also have you know, Tel Aviv and you have Madrid and Barcelona and you h…”

“And compared to most of the cities, or in contrast to most of the cities in the US that have the same sort of international footprint, it is incredibly cheap to live and operate in. That's not a Europe wide advantage, but that is something very special about B…”

“So with that in mind, it has been very easy for us at Wunderlist, for example, to attract international talent from Almost all over the world, and certainly even the west coast of the United States, because it's a nice destination for people and a place where …”

“Really nothing has changed. We're operating in Berlin. We're a solid team making decisions the same way we did before. Like I said, we, you know, we have freedom to do things exactly as we did in the past, but we have more help when we need it.”

“It's also pretty clear that in terms of momentum, Berlin is probably or is, in my eyes, the clear number two in Europe.”

“If we really want to hire an engineer here in Berlin, who has seen large distributed IT systems for millions of customers, we don't find them here in Berlin. We need to go to the UK. We need to go to Sweden to maybe Russia to hire these people.”

“At Get Your Guide, we have 90% of our employees in Berlin are not German.”