Italy

“Yeah, I think there are a lot of Americans and various other, that are investing in France in those, in Italy, In those, you know, it's a dollar, you know, a dollar for a castle because those towns are struggling and they need to bring new life in. And I think…”

“A lot of, so a lot of these countries have sort of a flat tax. You pay a hundred or 200,000 dollars a year, and then that's it for 10 years, 20 years, whatever it might be.”

“Italy, Poland, and Germany have all seen, as we know, nationalists or populist parties challenge the ETS framework, in some cases directly as a response to the war in Iran.”

“I think Italy just reintroduced effectively what's called investment tax credits. Spain just did as well. Germany is restarting nuclear.”

“Germans want to buy from Germans. French people want to buy from French people, right? Like you can kind of get away with the UK sales force for a period of time, but usually if you want to go sell it, I'm dealing with one of the companies now, like France, Ge…”

“We, the two million registered users in Italy Only. Italy is, is sixty million people in total. So one in 30 people used to play that game.”

“Never. The reason is, I could Never visualize myself going back to the airport in Italy and my dad picking him up and say, how's it going? And it's just like would fail with my tails and my legs. Like I could never, I would have died here without food. Like I …”

“They don't really have fancy grocery stores there. Yet every grocery store is almost as fancy as the fanciest store in America.”

“Cause I always say there's no foodies in Italy. It's just Italians.”

“Something like 30% of Italians have really basic knowledge of like, finance, and so they get sold really bad products, or they get All into these, like, saving accounts, which, you know, at the time are very low interest rates.”

“And at the very beginning, you know, in the 19 forties, he has 41 vans. You fast forward, 20 years later, he's got thousands of them. And by this time Ferrero had the largest private fleet in Italy, second only to the Italian army, all completely controlled by…”

“Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada are all on track to do this.”

“Today in America, a child's diet is 70% ultra processed food. In Japan or Italy, it's 15%.”

“In 24, in Italy, with almost five million in revenues, more than 100,000 loyal customers, and 45 SKU distributed across 120 locations, our mission is very simple.”

“75% of our revenues in Italy are generated by the current customer.”

“No, in Italy we raised five million euros.”

“I'm not quite sure venture capital is the best capital for this business. I think slower and steady growth just funded by the EBITDA, the profit from the Italy business to expand into the US might be a better approach.”

“In Italy is 80% from experiences and services and 20% of products, but we are shifting that. So starting from the U.S. Venture, so in U.S. We are now like 65, 35, and we are targeting to go 60 to 40 and then fifty-fifty.”

“We entered as a number two and number three, number four player in those markets. And we are now the largest.”

“My husband was ship captain and it became quite a difficult problem, but he defected the ship in Italy and he went to American embassy, asked for political asylum and he came to United States and I had to wait three years to come here.”

“I think a hundred million. And we had half of the board was in favor of taking it.”

“Because two short years later, in 1986, For whatever reason, it is unknown, a bunch of dealers in Italy start snatching up versions of the Daytona from the era when Paul Newman's Daytona was made.”

“And it's important to say here, in Italy, there is a real watch culture. This is true in various parts of Europe at this point in time, in a way that, in America, there's actually not watch culture.”

“Because it is where most private label hair color is made, and the EU has very strict regulatory environment where basically you can't put certain things in, in personal care products.”

“And so we ended up finding more Q-tips in a factory in Italy, and we sent some C-seventeens from the military to pick them up before anyone noticed they were there.”

“I think we will probably list in the U S because there is really no requirement. You can list in the U S from Italy.”

“I came up in this tiny village, as I mentioned, in the northeast of Italy. 900 people lived there. People there mostly were farmers, truck drivers, plumbers. My parents were hairdressers. None of my, nobody in my family had gotten, say, a university degree”

“In the US, people who succeed, they tend to be applauded. In Europe, Italy, particularly, people who succeed, the first reaction tends to be is there something fishy behind it? Like, that's, there's no reason for it, but that's what a lot of people will start …”

“If in Europe also, if I'm not wrong maybe UK, France Germany, and Holland, only five countries have direct flights to India. There's no direct flight from Spain. There's no direct flight from Switzerland, no direct flight to Italy.”

“The by and large coffee in Italy is not as good as it once was. There are certain coffee companies that have maintained the standard, but by and large, the coffee is not as good.”

“Two, three years later, what do you think the number one beverage is? It's espresso. For Starbucks. Straight espresso. Espresso is the number one beverage.”

“So, we don't we don't do any manufacturing. All our manufacturing is outsourced to our manufacturing partners. And this is our India, China, Thailand, Turkey, Italy, and five countries, my manufacturing partners.”

“We had a female general manager in Milan, and they posted her face all over the city saying, kill this woman. They snuck into her apartment at night and hung a sign from her apartment to the apartment across the road, Saying she, you know, she has a relationsh…”

“So, in the thirties, four major democracies, because of that dynamic, chose to be, their parliaments chose to be autocracies. That happened in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan.”

“In this part of Italy, people were not incredibly wealthy, but they lived to be old, and they were healthy, and low incidences of diabetes and obesity, and it was all about just the food system.”

“This was, you know, something I'm like, I've never seen some, so much quality and so much detail before. It was probably one of the best factories I've ever seen. Better than ever, anything I've seen in Italy.”

“Our team is, is in Italy, and we have more than 100 papers published on AI.”

“They put a cell phone in between them, and it was not the cell phone of either person. It was not your phone or my phone. It was a dummy prop. It was just a half phone. But the presence of that physical device that nobody could actually touch or do anything wi…”

“About 50% of our staff is in Italy. So B is about 70 people right now.”

“I think the US works very well on a transactional front, because it's less considered a fallacy, or less considered a, you know, something odd to just walk up to someone and discuss something new, right? In Europe, you would be, maybe, except for Italy, people…”

“Italy is one of the latest country. I mean, it is very behind the mentality and the openness of investors and Lucy to give you money is it's a mess.”

“Over the next year, on average, the entrepreneurs who had been trained to think like scientists, randomly assigned, brought in more than 40 times the revenue of the control group. That is a staggering effect. And the major mechanism behind it is they were more…”

“Because in Italy, you know, people don't really make a lot of money, and if your parents don't have something, it's almost impossible to get ahead”

“Italy loves people with food, and they regard celiac disease as a serious disease. So, you know, people are trained in restaurants, certified. They just have a complete respect.”

“We are working now in Spain, but we have a technology to adapt to other European countries, such as Italy, Romania, and also We could adapt the technology to Latin countries, such as Brazil, Mexico, and other Latin countries.”

“The Mille Miglia is you drive, I don't know if it was literally a thousand miles, but metaphorically you drive a thousand miles around Italy on street, on like public roads. Like, so like no safety, not even any attempt, consider like no even pretence of safet…”

“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.”

“It's much easier to get credit from a factory that needs business in Italy than from an American bank that doesn't.”

“And I had them flown in from Italy and I would then turn around and ship them before I had to pay for them. And then I got paid before I had to pay the factories. So I had positive cash flow like three months into business.”

“When we first started the business, a hundred percent of our supply chain was in California. And then of course, as we started to grow and I decided, okay, look, this is actually going really well. I want to go into eyeliners, eyeshadows, all these, I want to …”

“99% at one point of all of the deaths in Italy had either some other health concern or a pre-existing condition.”

“I think the hospital system has done a great job rapidly creating more capacity. We haven't seen A situation like in Italy or even the UK where they're literally rational rationing ventilators and making horrible triage decisions about who's going to get a ven…”

“Italy has about 12 and a half critical care beds per capita. Per 100,000, sorry population. The U.S. Has 35, so we're, you know, three X the number of ICU or critical care beds per person than Italy has.”

“Italy is the third oldest country in the world. Okay, so about a quarter of Italians are over 65. That is nearly three X or two X what the U.S. Is as a percentage of population being over 65.”

“And secondly Italy is not Silicon Valley, so we don't have a very developed venture capital fund. So we needed to find a way to raise money without without having a venture capital around.”

“And then we raised capital, we changed business model, and then we started doubling the revenues from 2012 to today with a huge growth and with 93% of the business outside Outside, Italy, 60% in North America.”

“The challenges we're seeing across continental Europe you know, with those support systems falling apart is actually engendering a move towards entrepreneurship. So we see that in Portugal. Uni places just has been, you know, has had a great round of funding r…”

“So as a matter of fact, for us, it's much easier to develop our ideas in California, Which has a culture of a young society ready to embrace new technologies compared to the old world like France or Italy or Portugal.”

“At 300 over Bunz, effectively, that is implying, I mean, this is subjective, but effectively implying a 30% probability of some kind of re-denomination or tactical default in Italy.”

“More than half of all the high yield bonds issued in Italy have yields that are tighter than U.S. Treasuries.”