Parr: Rocket Internet built its business cloning US tech companies internationally
Sam Parr · MFM #168 - How to Reverse Engineer Businesses, The Indonesian King of Coal & the Story of Adidas · Apr 7, 2021 · at 43:18
Sam Parr describes the incubator model of Rocket Internet, founded by the Samwer brothers.
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“Rocket Internet, Google it. It's a guy, it's three brothers named Ollie, Alex, and something else, Samware brothers. And they started this thing called Rocket Internet. And basically the way it works right now, it's a large publicly traded company. They had this like guy named, he was like the chief scientist. And what they would do is they would research fast growing companies in America and they would clone them and they would deploy that company in Africa, in Asia, different parts of Europe, things like that.”
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