Creandum

“My colleague came to me one evening in, in, in March, nine, 2019 and said, we have this opportunity to look at a Robin Hood of Germany. Do you want to take a look? No, I said, and that was a, that was, so I said to myself, this is, this has been around for 25 …”

“And Konto is, is one thinking it was too, too much overlap with Tide.”

“Well, it was five, six years ago. It was cheap in today's world. I'll tell you that. But on the other hand I felt expensive at that time, given a thousand customers in an A round of ten million.”

“Honest answer. We never think about that. I mean, if the market tells us this is the valuation, this is the round, we try to participate in the winners. That's honest, Harry. If that ever would come through and be true, we would not be in business.”

“This was actually a deed breaker for us in the end, because we really wanted to see Christian and the team own enough to be able to have, you know, sufficient as a founder to stay with the company long-term.”

“In 20, 23, we're five X the plan that was presented to me on the, on, on top line.”

“I think if we look back at all our investments and the ones that have been fantastic it's, they've all been expensive.”