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Germany subsidizes pensions with €100B yearly but invests only €7B in VC
“Germany subsidizes its retirement system every year with a hundred billion, right? But we don't, we have seven billion invested in VC, a hundred billion subsidies in retirement system.”
Johannes Reck says Airbnb tried and failed at experiences in 2015
“Airbnb had tried experiences From 2015 onwards, they had failed.”
GetYourGuide Retained All Engineers and Product Managers Throughout the Pandemic
“So we only had to ultimately lay off throughout the entire two years roughly, 15 to 20% of the staff, not a single engineer, not a single product person.”
Reck: Europe accounts for 60% of global inbound travel
“Europe has 60% of the global inbound travel.”
Reck: GetYourGuide was first to sell Vatican tours online in 2010
“We got very lucky because we got a very good tour agency, which did tours to the Vatican very early on in the Vatican is like one of the major sites in all of Europe and no one had sold the Vatican online at that point in time.”
Reck: Spark Capital's fund returned multiple times via Oculus and Wayfair
“So TalkSpark Capital, our Series A lead, you know, the deal after Get Your Guide was Oculus Rift, right? You know, Palmer Lucchi. So, you know, we were basically off the hook a couple of months after they made the investment in us because the fund was already …”