Stockholm

“The advantages of being in Silicon Valley close to all of these investors were outweighed by the advantages of being in a city where we have an amazing network, and we have access to this incredible pool of Really talented engineers and designers.”

“Every new hire in the New York office is onboarded for one or two weeks in the Stockholm office, so that they can really kind of, like, understand our culture, our history, our vision, what the company is based upon.”

“Stockholm now has as many Billion-dollar companies per capita as the U.S. Sorry, San Francisco, and we need one more, and there'll be bigger, you know, so there'll be more, sort of, billion-dollar companies being created coming out of Stockholm.”

“We see very few of the current crop of great winners coming from here, whereas clearly Stockholm, the Nordics are punching way above their weight.”

“I changed the direction and didn't fly to Munich. I flew to Stockholm. I was two hours later in Stockholm, had my scan, went through everything, and I issued the term sheet the same evening.”

“Now, every two weeks, we have a new hire class. And at this point, it's between 40 and 50 people joining every, every two weeks. We send everyone to Stockholm, do an immersive five days.”

“Well, we're very opinionated about who we are and who we aren't. We, if you're a great engineer and you want to be remote, then you probably also want to work on very isolated problems, and that's, that can be fine. We'll, we'll, we probably have those, and we…”

“If you have a PM and a designer and an engineer, and they just sit together, You can almost not even have the handover. You can just be like, run at this problem and do it together, the three of you know, next week, and then it's done. But if you have them sil…”