Poland

“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.”

“Income in Poland is on track to overtake income in the United Kingdom. This is based on a forecast for advanced economies.”

“I think it's One of the several, but certainly the largest and maybe most cohesive place where the former Eastern Bloc country embraced capitalism in all the constructive ways. So there's lots of, it's big enough, so it has great education, A lot of very smart…”

“Presenting Blick to your customers in Poland drives an average 46% increase in checkout conversion. Offering Pix does the same in Brazil with a 31% average conversion uplift.”

“In Poland, if you watch a foreign movie, all the voices, whether it's a male or female voice, are narrated with one single character. So one voice speaks all the lines. All the emotionality, all the intonation just disappears. And then back in 2021, we realize…”

“And so the next country to become a developed country likely is going to be Poland.”

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

“Poland and Ukraine had very similar plans. The reason why Poland's been one of the phenomenal successes and Ukraine has not been is because Ukraine's just been plagued by corruption.”

“Look at Poland, Poland has gone from, I think, 2.1% or so to 4.7 within just a few years.”

“I commissioned a study, so which, in which I analyzed all this kind of stuff, yeah, and so I clearly came out that in terms of threat, historically, most of the European countries have spent in the vicinity of three and a half percent. Poland is at six or seve…”

“And by the end of the decade of the sixties, Poland is producing 50% of IKEA's furniture, including some of the first modern classics like the Billy Bookcase, the Ogla Cafe chair.”

“In Poland or in Czech or in the Baltics, we were the ones who defined the category and the regulators were then coming to us and were asking us for input.”

“So if you think about Revolut against Monzo, right, like the markets we grew the fastest wasn't the UK. It was Ireland, it was Romania, Poland.”

“He took a signed copy of the contract to a stamp shop and ordered a rubber stamp that would produce a exact replica. He would obtain rubber stamps of official signatures for nearly all of his match deals.”

“There may be more talent in Poland that's available to you than talent in San Francisco.”

“They leave on the last train of Poland, and then the Nazis wind up bombing that train.”

“I think now is like a really great time to go potentially invest in Poland.”

“France, UK, Poland are very good at training mathematicians. And as it turns out, mathematicians are very good at making AI.”

“He was able to sneak about 10, the equivalent of, like, 10,000 dollars today out of the country in advance of him escaping, and if he didn't do that, there was a good chance that they wouldn't have never made it to America”

“So Poland became the chief supplier of coal To the other countries of the Eastern Bloc.”

“There was 400,000 jobs in coal mine, in hard coal mine in Poland, whereas now we have 75,000 coal miners.”

“Part of the Polish legitimate criticism was that Importing gas, natural gas from Russia was about financing the Kremlin and financing the aggressive policy of Kremlin. Well, and suddenly Poland did the same, not with natural gas, but with coal.”

“I think the most activity that we've seen anywhere, like, once again, including with our own company, is in Poland. You know, there's, like, a confluence of circumstances there between, you know, sustained political and social support. Their energy security is…”

“I mean, we've announced almost 20 deals out there now that we've signed and are starting development activities on.”

“The same thing that makes Taiwan difficult to invade makes it very difficult to resupply. There's no Poland next door that we can resupply through.”

“We are the first player on Poland. Poland is a huge market having twenty million employees.”

“Where the United States was paying, you know, four dollars a million British thermal units or MMBTU for gas here in the U.S., at the same time, customers in Germany or Poland, you know, were paying like 26 dollars For MMBTU for gas.”

“So I always look at India as there are ten million Indians who have the lifestyle of Singaporeans or you know, whatever, 50, 60,000 dollars, and a hundred million Indians probably of middle income like Poland. Then you have a billion Indians who are, of course…”

“So for example, we have quite a lot of people born and raised in the UK living in Poland today for different reasons. And we have them selling to the UK, which for us is way, way cheaper. To have people hired in Poland, but still they sell in UK and the custom…”

“So for our senior full stack developer, we are paying 40 bucks per hour, and for our, let's say junior meet engineers, we are paying, depending on the scope, from 25 to 30 bucks.”

“So for senior let's say for our senior full stack developer, we are paying 40 bucks per hour, and for our, let's say junior meet engineers, we are paying, depending on the scope, from 25 to 30 bucks.”

“In Poland, you can get a very talented engineer paying like 4000 bucks per month.”

“But I think the good price for a Polish engineer is like six, 7000 per month.”

“One of the things that shocked me that you, that actually customers from all over the world, they don't mind buying the product. If it's good enough, they don't mind if it's from, you know, based in Poland or anywhere.”

“Yeah, that's the beauty of the work right now that we can run this business with poll, let's say Polish costs while charging in dollar.”

“For the local IPO in Poland on local stock exchange, which is still it's pretty good option for raising capital. those, you know, other other, other stock exchange markets than the NASDAQ. And New York Stock Exchange. it's a viable option.”

“Parts of the world, such as Eastern Europe you know, Poland maybe is catching up to the West, but most of it is being depopulated and emptying out. And it basically will never catch up.”

“So we have about a hundred engineers right now and growing. And yes, that's mainly in our Git response headquarters in Poland.”

“We've also, internally, we had a big team in the Ukraine and Poland, and we've almost killed most of our external dev, mainly because the speed of development.”