Estonia

“So you look at the United States. We do great on all these metrics. Estonia is a country that does pretty well on these metrics. A lot of parts of the world are too small-c conservative. And we'll see where different countries are going to fall on this spectru…”

“Defense contributions, you know, we were not at two percent in Europe before Estonia was ahead, but in, and Poland was ahead, but, you know, we need to get to three, four, five percent everywhere. And same in other critical industries.”

“We have the biggest number of unicorns per capita, and nobody knows this.”

“We grew up under the Russian occupation in Estonia and at the time entrepreneurship was banned, so they couldn't pursue their ambitions.”

“So we were running all of this with a tiny team of About five people from Estonia.”

“During the Soviet era, there was a lot of agricultural land abandonment that turned into reforestation. And now a lot of those forests, 60 years later, a lot of those forests are maturing and what you have is you have forests that, you know, maybe they've been…”

“Estonia, which doesn't have a income tax for companies that has a profit and dividend tax. So as long as you never declare a profit, you literally don't have to pay tax in Estonia.”

“I would say it's a four to 5000 euros per month, which translates into like 70 to 80,000 dollars.”

“He put in place some new processes to incorporate the companies in a faster way. It does not compare to Estonia, ok? But it's still way better than it was a couple of years ago, before he came into power. You know, the paperwork would be easier. The administra…”

“In Estonia, for example, the whole country's national ID system still runs on the security of a SIM card.”

“Yeah, you could go to Estonia and Denmark and all these great places that have great data sets, but they're also small, and for impact, they may not have the same impact As it would have in our crazy healthcare non-system here.”

“You've had South Korea do a huge and incredible job on infrastructure. You've had Estonia do a huge and incredible job on government services online. You've had Singapore do an amazing job in smart cities. You've had Canada actually do some interesting stuff i…”