Sweden

“So turns out in Sweden homeowners are paying one and a half percent if they want to sell their house. Even Canada, our northern neighbor has figured this out. They're only paying three percent and that keeps dropping. And the United States seems to be very stu…”

“Take a market like Sweden, the reason why Spotify partly has been successful was, from day one, the product was built to go global. The same thing with Skype, transfer-wise, a building for a global audience, because The local population is far too small to be …”

“When I went to Sweden, you know, as a cashless society, supposedly the only place that didn't accept a mobile app was Starbucks”

“Only 20% of the payments in Sweden are cash, whereas if you look in the U.S., that's actually 90%”

“I have a JV kind of a partnership with a bank in Sweden To prove out the blockchain for mutual fund formation and mutual fund management. And then we have actually a specific use case in South Africa to implement the blockchain for proxy voting in South Africa…”

“The most roboticized companies in the countries in the world that have the highest penetration of robotics are South Korea, Sweden, Germany, which have the lowest unemployment.”

“Way more women go into STEM in like Kazakhstan than in Sweden.”

“Intelligence is for everyone, and it is not just a few companies in the world who should build it. Everybody should build it. Nobody's gonna care more about the Swedish culture and the Swedish language and the Swedish people and the Swedish ecosystem more than…”

“There are a couple of places that have great technology entrepreneurship. Sweden is one. Israel's one. But it's pretty rare around the world.”

“If you look at all the angel investments that the Frederick did, he's pretty much in all the relevant companies that came out of Sweden.”

“So this was a high school dropout from Sweden, came to the U.S. With no education, got a job on MidJourney, then became one of the youngest researchers at OpenAI, and now he started a company.”