Germany, every mention
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every year anyone John Collison 11Tobi Lütke 3Tony Xu 2Julia DeWahl 1Henri Stern 1Dave Ricks 1Dan Sundheim 1Casey Handmer 1
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The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash
Stripe’s 2024 annual letter
- ▶ 12:27 John Collison Other markets like Singapore, 14%, France, eight percent, and Germany, five percent are more nascent, but adoption is growing quickly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:54 John Collison To make this concrete, one German entrepreneur recently reported, my previous non-German company was incorporated in Delaware and opened a bank account within a few days. 3 times in the scene
Julia DeWahl of Antares on building nuclear reactors for the US military
- ▶ 28:42 Julia DeWahl And then I read about, um, Germany and the nuclear power plants.
Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly, on GLP-1s and the business of pharma
- ▶ 0:00 John Collison You spend more on, uh, medical R&D than Germany does.
- ▶ 8:48 John Collison I liked your way, I liked your way, um, of putting us that you spend more on, uh, medical R&D than Germany does.
- ▶ 1:16:09 Dave Ricks It was a German invention, actually.
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 25:37 Henri Stern Like, selling into France doesn't mean you can sell it to Spain or Germany.
Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
- ▶ 9:48 Casey Handmer We can just, um, electrolyze stuff at a couple hundred degrees Celsius, and, uh, and then feed that into a, um, high-pressure, high-temperature reactor of the sort that were pioneered in Germany in, like, 19 or five, um, and then out comes…
- ▶ 27:52 John Collison How causal were the solar subsidies along the way, like Germany's, to solar success on the current cost curve?
- ▶ 31:04 John Collison What I'm doing with this is, um, if the German subsidies were somehow impactful, and if the Chinese subsidies were very impactful to the development of solar, what are the implications here for 2 times in the scene
Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital on the art of public market investing
- ▶ 1:02:51 Dan Sundheim Like, you look at it, you're sitting there in Germany, you're like, okay, MAS is putting in tens of billions of dollars.
Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later
- ▶ 1:27:21 Tobi Lütke So I had a front row seat to a world, like, like, the world around me in this small, sleepy town in Germany, um, was irreconcilable with what was becoming possible.
- ▶ 1:32:10 Tobi Lütke I live now more in Canada than Germany, uh, for long, for longer.
- ▶ 1:37:39 Tobi Lütke After my German one expired.
A Cheeky Pint with serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels (@levelsio)
- ▶ 13:57 John Collison Yeah, and you know, there's this home country bias in stock purchasing where people in Germany buy German stocks.