Netherlands

“Step one, Is have an open society at home. You know, think of the Dutch in the 17th century that okay, everybody had these wars of religion... And so, they come up with new ideas for government finance that we still use, the joint stock company, new seagoing t…”

“New business registrations are well, so I think in general the business formation story is underappreciated. So new business registrations are up basically around the world, at least for advanced economies. They're up like, 40% in the Netherlands and 70% in Fi…”

“And in the Netherlands, they eat thirty million pounds of sprinkles a year.”

“So what I see in South India, especially what Dutch companies come here for is talent, talent, talent. We have a severe Labor shortage in many sectors in the Netherlands. Immigration is not encouraged, so companies are looking for other solutions.”

“The Netherlands is, after the United States of America, the second largest agriculture exporter in the world.”

“We have a labor shortage in the Netherlands, but also our grid is congested due to the sudden uptake of electric vehicles, solar, energy. So it's difficult for new companies to get access to the grid.”

“We have seen now recently a more formalized collaboration between the six IITs in India and some of our technical universities in the Netherlands. With a specific focus on semiconductors.”

“ASML is at the top of a pyramid of more than 300 companies.”

“In the Netherlands, big companies, small companies, they struggle to attract a sufficient talent. We have a housing crisis. So it's not so easy to bring foreign workers from outside to the Netherlands, also a politically sensitive issue.”

“The biggest challenge is always to get the bank account, but even there, We have some solutions now also with Indian banks that have a European presence and to see how that works.”

“Drive times now are 11 to four across America. Hotel bookings Thursdays way up. And there's a lot of more data points to this. So the weekend starts Thursday now. And we're, you know, 2025, maybe 2027, they start Wednesday.”

“The Netherlands has 12,000 businesses waiting for an electricity connection.”

“ASML, which is like the Netherlands biggest company, most valuable company, isn't able to build extra factory because it cannot get an electricity connection for the next few years.”

“They sell 20,000 bars in two days because of the public, like, resonance with their story. And it becomes the best-selling chocolate brand in their market, which is the Netherlands. They get, like, 20% share in the Netherlands. It passes up Mars and Nestle and…”

“How Polar Steps started was actually my co-founder, who's a very fanatic traveler, just like most people who work here at the Polar Steps. And he went sailing across the Atlantic. He's a very adventurous yeah, type. And when he did that, he figured out it woul…”

“Inka, the franchisee who operates the stores, rolls up to a Netherlands-based charitable foundation where InterIkea Systems, the kind of parent that owns the IP, rolls up to a Lichtenstein-based enterprise foundation. Different, like, non-charitable is an ente…”

“All of the equipment that you need to manufacture these chips, whether it's foundational or advanced, is basically built in three places. It's built in America, It's built in Netherlands, the company, SML that many have heard about and in Japan”

“The interesting thing about both China and the Netherlands which are my most personal recent experiences with, you know, truly prevalent charging everywhere. They're really not doing this, even though they're charging everywhere.”

“But like in the Netherlands, they're, like, phasing out biopower in favor of biopower with CCS.”

“The allies who participated in the campaign of airstrikes were UK, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, and Bahrain. But I don't think they actually did anything. I don't think they contributed any assets. They just provided their names to this operation and provid…”

“The Netherlands is, I think, the number two exporter of food by value around the world, because they grow a lot of high-value crops, flowers, and fruits and vegetables in an indoor setting.”

“In the Netherlands, in Japan, and in Saudi Arabia, it comes to light that Lockheed employees and contractors are paying bribes to political officials to win contracts. This actually brings down the Japanese Prime Minister at the time.”

“So actually we bought it from another company. It was an agency in the Netherlands and they were trying to sell off the app. To sort of focus on a bigger project. And we really liked the category. We really liked the build quality. We thought we saw a lot of p…”

“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…”

“The Netherlands is the world's third largest dairy exporter. They export three billion dollars a year of milk to the rest of the world, to other countries.”

“And one in particular, Dr. Mark Post in the Netherlands was somebody who actually, you know, about 15 years before that, I had worked in the same lab with also doing cardiac research. And he had gone on to create the world's first hamburger in this way, and he…”

“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.”

“What we do is basically open up, when we open up a new country, we start with our fleet business. So, B to B operations. We go basically have a nationwide coverage. If we look at how we opened up the Netherlands back in last October or November we started off …”

“We are planning to raise more capital and actually flip to Netherlands because it's a very exciting domain for like space data and like climate change. So we are looking to raise about five to six million dollars more and just flip it over the, you know, in th…”

“So when we were sending a hundred emails, we got like 30 replies.”

“For instance, Spotify, we first signed them in the Netherlands and Belgium, and they're now using it in like 20 countries.”

“And I thought the Euro was an incredibly stupid idea because, you know, I was looking at the correlation of employment shocks with Netherlands and Germany and Spain and Germany, and the sort of core periphery issues quite were already evident then, and it was …”

“And lastly, two days ago, we acquired a company in the Netherlands that is specialized in data-driven with AI customer journey management.”

“So in these markets, people pay with debit methods or with online banking based payment methods. And in these countries, they represent maybe like 80% of all online transactions in store transactions.”

“Norway is almost at 50% now. The Netherlands is six percent electric. California is five percent electric. But overall, under three percent of today's sales of cars are electric. So it's about 500,000 out of eighteen million cars sold in the U.S.”

“There are already a set of countries that have laws on the books that outright banned the sale of gas-powered cars. The Netherlands by 2025, also Norway, India by 2030, Scotland by 2032, and so on.”

“We had like two, 200,000 users in the Netherlands.”