Austria

“So I think he launches in 1987 in Austria and doesn't launch to his second market till 1992.”

“Originally the company was headquarters in a bigger city called Salzburg, and he winds up moving the headquarters to this tiny village that I can't even pronounce, and it only has 1500 inhabitants. It's like almost all Red Bull. The local, like governing, like…”

“Austria's opt out. You're gonna deliver your organs when you die, unless you explicitly say you don't want to. In Germany, you have to opt in. They're not donated unless you explicitly do so. Germany has 12% organ donors. Austria has like 99.6.”

“In Austria recently, there was a big problem where people bought what they thought was compounded semaglutides, the active component of these drugs. They weren't, they went into comas, they were horribly injured.”

“Casper and I, we you know, attacked the German, Austrian, and Swiss market. I think it was year one and two. Not very successful until I think it was Casper coming, you know, and saying, hey, all these retailers are actually, you know, they're runners, you kno…”

“We sold out of all the product we had in the first month and we thought it would last like three months. So we actually were sold out, had no product for almost two full months because it took so long to get more from Austria.”

“For example, Austria is not a good hub because the country itself is just a little small that you can say, okay, I do choose Austria for now and then I go to other markets. So this is basically the reason why Germany, France and UK also being the countries wit…”

“You can get a lot of public grants if you start your business in Austria. So you don't need to worry about like you being able to finance your life, for example, in the first one or two years, because there's such so much government support.”

“And also it's easier to become one of the best startups if you start out in a small country, right? Like it's super hard to be in the top league in Germany, I guess also in India, but in Austria, just not too many. So if you're good, everybody will recognize y…”

“And SaaS, I would say, is 80% of all startups you see, they would be fitting into the SaaS category, and we also see that in Austria, we see that in Germany”

“The Austrian counterparts give the U.S. Secret Service a gift. They give them a bunch of Glocks. The U.S. Secret Service agents return with unusual gifts from their Austrian counterparts. Three high capacity black polymer pistols. It was Glocks first official …”

“Literally over the course of two months, ocean freight costs went up like five X or something insane. And all of a sudden we started getting killed on ocean freight costs in the back half of 2021 where, you know, we might have been spending You know, 3500 doll…”

“There is no chip that is less than seven nanometer that doesn't get touched by this one Austrian company's tool, right? And there is no alternative.”

“So right now we need to burn more coal, and this is why we have seen in many countries that coal is being brought back. I mean, in Germany, in Austria, in France, in the Netherlands, everywhere is being brought back because there is no other issue in the power…”

“Then we're operating how in Germany, having nationwide coverage there, the Netherlands and then Austria at the moment, looking to open up the UK market still this year.”

“We started in Austria and the German speaking countries, but during the last one year, we see tremendous growth coming in from the States actually. So, so I would say it's mostly new customers.”

“So I already signed up five most the biggest banks in the Ukraine. We work with two banks in Austria right now. One big banking group, which is covering 26 countries is right now, like we are signing up the contract. So actually, actually, we do not spend any …”