Spain

“Paris is you know, they have all this spare power. One of the funny things is like, they're like, oh, okay, let's build a bunch of data centers. But then Spain, Italy, Belgium the Netherlands and Germany All freaked out because it's like, oh wait, all this spa…”

“The safest countries in the world are not the most surveilled ones. So Spain is one example. It has some of the lower statistics for any kind of crime, including homicide and so on, violent crimes. And it's not better surveilled Than the US or the UK. And in f…”

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

“So, I met this company, V-Lex it's a 25 year old company. This guy Alex, bought up every legal record in Spain, like probably going back to 1492, like buys the, you know, here's the Ferdinand and Isabella, like, you know, here's the document, like I'm gonna ta…”

“The value of Jeeves is better the more countries we cover, because even for that company in Mexico, now we cover Spain, big corridor Spain to Mexico. We cover that. We can give you a card in Spain. Your founder lives in UK. We can give him a card. Like, so it …”

“There were actually very few people that were making guitars on a small scale. Now, if you went to Spain, there's a guitar maker on every single corner, 100,000 of them. But in the U.S., it wasn't a thing.”

“By the way, also when there's, you know, there was a power outage in, in Portugal and Spain, we proactively extended their streak, so, so they don't lose it.”

“There's like 2000 courts here, and there's like 20,000 in Spain.”

“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…”

“We spend five times more per capita on health care than Spain, but live six years less.”

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

“There was the generation one of food delivery in, in the case of Spain, Barcelona, where we started the business, it was Just Eat that basically had a marketplace where they aggregated restaurants that did the delivery themselves, but there wasn't a marketplac…”

“When you cross the border, it doesn't matter how big and how well-known your brand is in Spain. You go to Portugal and you start from zero.”

“At some point it was very scary because 70% of our volume in Spain was McDonald's, but I was okay because I knew this was just, it was just part of the customer flow.”

“The groceries offline market is a hundred and twenty billion out of which only two percent is online. Two percent of groceries industries online.”

“Two percent of groceries industries online. We're fully convinced that this two percent will turn into 20, 30%.”

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

“And unfortunately, the, yeah, the country where we suffer from regulation the most is Spain. I'm not going to go into the details, but it's so extreme that I'm now in a criminal process for so the, yeah, the prosecutor, the general attorney accused me with six…”

“The average restaurant in the US and Germany orders from four and a half different suppliers. Yeah. So say one for fish and one for meat and one for drinks and so on. France we had nine, much more specialty, more focused on food and so on and so forth. In Spai…”

“When Facebook bought WhatsApp, I think 99% of people in Spain had WhatsApp. It was some of the most incredible market penetration ever.”

“When you look at United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, et cetera, they're all just like completely, you know, sort of falling into societal collapse all for, you know, sort of slightly different reasons, but it comes down to a complete lack of, you know, sor…”

“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.”

“We decided to actually do an equity deal. With them and actually purchase stock. So it wasn't an asset. So, because I didn't want to go through trying to figure out how to set up a company in Spain.”

“Argentina at this time was wealthier than France or Germany. Twice as wealthy as Spain and had one of the top 10 highest GDP per capita of any nation on earth in 1913.”

“And actually in, in places like Spain, for example, there is so much solar being produced that they are curtailing solar production during the day. So actually it is possible to charge for some hours of the day at zero cost, or perhaps in some places, even at …”

“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.”

“They've said, if you build your project now, we'll give you the merchant power price for the first 18 months, or until your project was due online. And since that is, well, technically the cap is a 180 euros a megawatt hour, and if you think of these projects …”

“Pre-revenue, except for the company in Spain, so very little revenue, to be very candid.”

“We got into Spain via the Deja acquisition, and We probably should have pulled out immediately instead of waiting to pull out.”

“Axios reported over 2000 dead in Spain and Portugal alone.”

“So we opened Spain. We opened Germany from France without having Salesforce. You know, we were we had our own in-house Salesforce, and that was a mistake”

“The thing is that in Spain, it's a little bit tricky in that sense, like everything around human resources, social security. So, I mean, if you tell an employee, a Spanish employee that they are hired by a Singaporean company and therefore they don't benefit f…”

“I mean, Spain is a little bit more expensive. I would say it's more like on the seventies, but again, like it's not 300, right?”

“We raised a little bit of capital and but here in, in, well, in Spain, the team is divided between Brazil and Spain. Mostly we raised a little bit of capital in Spain not much. So we're actually run as a profitable company.”

“We are based on in Spain. So the cost of living gear is not as high. So we, you know, we are in the comfortable spot that we could be running for a year or so, but that's not really the plan.”

“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.”

“If the creditors accept the debt restructuring plan, we could talk here about, let's say, discount of the debts between 20 to almost 80% of the debt.”

“Now we have more than 40,000 people per month searching about this low.”

“For sure, Barcelona, but I would say it's like the most startup city of Spain, but it's true that, of course, Madrid has a lot of, I mean, is a big area for startups, but more and more, there are all the cities like Valencia, which is also Spain on the, and th…”

“Basically, I would say that most of the investors ecosystem here is from Spain itself.”

“And then afterwards is more pan-European funds or funds which are very related to the other European countries.”

“It is true that if we are based in Spain, we normally rise to 150 to 500, maybe a seed round.”

“You can actually sell if you're in, in Spain to Germany. The whole problem is that probably people, people, People won't buy from you. So you can sell, but there are not many buyers. So people still tend to buy local and authorities tend to favor local compani…”

“So about 40% of our customers are from Mexico and Spain.”

“We have around 34 customers in the UK. We've got 10,000 members. So they're the taking members the people that take the items and we're in UK, Spain. We actually just launched in New York last month. Just before Christmas. And we're in the UAE. We have a partn…”

“We stopped using the office a week or two before it was mandatory here in Spain.”

“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 if you put all of these people together who are now currently displaced into one country, It would be the 25th or 24th largest country on earth, bigger than South Korea, bigger than Spain.”

“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…”

“Most of our money goes from first world to first world. Our biggest corridor are between UK and US, UK and Spain, UK and Germany.”

“I think you're also going to see a lot more exporting globally. you're already seeing contracts being made with Canada and other countries. I think you're going to see a rise in Spain and Germany. they're going to be coming out and being bigger players”

“Yeah, but actually we're talking right now to a few VCs here in Spain, and we are planning on raising one million euro you know, sort of series A type, type size round for Europe in the next three to six months.”

“We're rolling out into some other countries too right now into Brazil, France, and Spain. So we have a, we have like a little bit of a research team we use for that.”