Greece

“Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Great Britain, every great world power has buckled under the weight of a government that hands out the largesse, right, that, that everyone's got their hand in the pot, and they buckle, and that's how they lose their place in the w…”

“Well, that would be, you know, about 60,000 euros maximum per year.”

“And so Eurostat, the, like the UK is over 80% of people bought something online last year. But in Italy, it's only 38 or 39%. In Greece, it's the same.”

“Due to the crisis in Greece when my mother's retirement was at risk in the Greek banks you know, cryptos, actually cryptocurrencies saved the day for her because they allowed her to protect her retirement, which was cash-based, from failing Greek banks and cur…”

“About five million people, although those who are registered are about four million. It just happens that during the census people leave and go back to their villages or towns, because they believe that if they're registered there, the government will have a d…”

“Although there are historians that would disagree with that, but an important factor in the success of the War of Independence was those two loans. They were, yes, they were divisive. They were never used for the war itself, but politically, they played an imp…”

“One and a half million Greeks left their villages and towns in, in Turkey, and they were settled in Greece, and about half a million Turks and Muslims left northern Greece, and they went to Turkey.”

“When the original, when they ran out of originals, they started producing copies, so there was an entire industry of producing copies or reworkings of early, earlier Greek statues. You go to several, you know, all around the world, and most of the statues that…”

“Yearly it was around low to mid five figures, because here in Greece, the thing is that salaries are not very high.”

“Actually, this is pretty high, especially the last few years.”

“Also we were starting in Greece, so, you know, this is not the place to start the new consumer big hit that is going to become fashionable in San Francisco.”

“And the huge advantage when you are in a peripheral market like Greece is that if you have a network there and some reputation you probably have a huge advantage in in hiring. You know, hiring engineers in Greece, there's plenty of them. They're really good. T…”