Berlin

“When I started at pound here, I actually just, cause I just wanted to be a left alone. I was like, yeah, I'm going to make some money. I'm going to move to Berlin. I'm going to live a debaucherous life. That was my goal. Like I'm moving to Berlin. I thought I …”

“When I started at Palantir, I actually just, cause I just wanted to be a left alone. I was like, yeah, I'm going to make some money. I'm going to move to Berlin. I'm going to live a debaucherous life. That was my goal. Like I'm moving to Berlin. I thought I ne…”

“At Get Your Guide, we have 90% of our employees in Berlin are not German.”

“Cause our first. 10 very large customers. Like one of them was in Berlin. One was in Norway. One was in Armenia. We had one in Singapore, you know, and then there were another half a dozen that were in the U S I think only one of them was in New York.”

“If you're still on your journey, I do think cities are, they're not just a place to go have fun. They are a utility that you pay for. Like, there's a reason also people are like, oh, if you live in Berlin, you pay this much for an apartment. But if I, if you j…”

“If we really want to hire an engineer here in Berlin, who has seen large distributed IT systems for millions of customers, we don't find them here in Berlin. We need to go to the UK. We need to go to Sweden to maybe Russia to hire these people.”

“I think a lot of tech is adopted almost city by city, and so I think that one of the things we got right in the early years was focusing on a few cities like New York, Berlin, London, to really grow the scene there, and then you get positive word of mouth.”

“So we've got about a 120 people. 30 of those are in the U.S. The rest are in split between Copenhagen Berlin, and Braga, Portugal, where we just opened there.”

“And today we have customers, teams, and offices present across Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh Berlin, UK, US, and of course, India. And we have customers in, you know, another 20 countries. So with more than 50% of our revenue today coming, you know, from outside our ho…”

“I think you're going to start seeing a boom of the tech hubs in Berlin, in France, even though they're already present, but they're going to become even more so like the hubs of the tech startup world.”

“There's so much going on in Silicon Valley. There's no technology going on in Berlin.”

“Because the growth motion, which I'm going to talk about, is really a marketing led motion, B to B startups can now really come from anywhere. And that's just not been the case in the past. There's really been very, very few centers for real strong B to B comp…”

“Most are actually based in Berlin because you get, you know, the best engineers in Germany or probably I would say in Europe you get in Berlin.”

“Our founders are saying, let me launch immediately in London, Berlin, maybe even in New York, actually. So they're really going after urban spread rather than any kind of geographical bias.”

“Well, I mean, to be honest I can already see, like, we are going to be at a super competitive market, like, that the whole idea, like, I remember from Berlin time, when I was living there are still cafes that we were, like, sitting there, and we just said, don…”

“We've got about 60 people between Palo Alto, Copenhagen, and Berlin.”

“Yeah, Berlin is a little bit cheaper, but I mean, it's something of that magnitude, yeah.”

“It's also pretty clear that in terms of momentum, Berlin is probably or is, in my eyes, the clear number two in Europe.”

“And compared to most of the cities, or in contrast to most of the cities in the US that have the same sort of international footprint, it is incredibly cheap to live and operate in. That's not a Europe wide advantage, but that is something very special about B…”

“So with that in mind, it has been very easy for us at Wunderlist, for example, to attract international talent from Almost all over the world, and certainly even the west coast of the United States, because it's a nice destination for people and a place where …”

“Really nothing has changed. We're operating in Berlin. We're a solid team making decisions the same way we did before. Like I said, we, you know, we have freedom to do things exactly as we did in the past, but we have more help when we need it.”

“You know, I'm not sure there's going to be one or I, I'm not sure it's, there's necessarily for one to emerge. I think London is, is doing well. Berlin is showing a lot of energy, but you also have you know, Tel Aviv and you have Madrid and Barcelona and you h…”

“And so London is ahead. But if you look Berlin's on a faster growth trajectory.”

“And I think, if anything, Berlin, it's easier to do that than it is in London right now. And Berlin's got a little bit of a zeitgeist moment right now, And the immigration is slightly easier and it's slightly more attractive to people coming from the US.”