France

“Then everybody turned to yes, and then we made the biggest angel round in France at that time.”

“It's a lot easier to start a company in the UK and then start doing business in the US or Australia or New Zealand, because there are very similar cultures. Whereas if you're starting a company in France, for example, you, you're basically looking to develop T…”

“If you're not located in France you would have to have a sort of a local director who would have a lot of veto rights or on how to manage your company, which comes with risks.”

“If we take everything into account, France is the best country to create a company, a startup. Maybe it's not the best country to grow the startup when you have succeeded generating some revenue and you're scaling up, but it's still going to be the best place …”

“If you want to pay 5000 that lands in the pocket of that employee, you would basically have to pay another 5000 In, under the form of different taxes. Unemployment insurance, medical insurance, health insurance, and lots of different other insurance and taxes.”

“We would take the total amount of money that has been spent on research and development, and the government would give you 50% more under the form of a yearly subsidy, which is huge.”

“He put in place some new processes to incorporate the companies in a faster way. It does not compare to Estonia, ok? But it's still way better than it was a couple of years ago, before he came into power. You know, the paperwork would be easier. The administra…”

“To give you an idea about what I'm talking about, you can find very good engineers with five to 10 years of experience at 60 K per year.”

“Things have dramatically changed after Emmanuel Macron came into power. So basically issued a law that specifies the maximum amount of money of penalties that the company would pay if they fire an employee. And when you have a maximum amount, Well, you can mea…”

“Paris is really expensive, the most expensive in France, and there's the rest of the country. So in Paris, you would have to spend around 2000 euros per month. Here in the south of France, for example, you would pay half the price for a rental. In Paris, it's …”

“France is particular because we have really good engineering talent, but they don't have exposure to at scale development. Like, there are very few French engineers that have managed a product with like half a million users.”

“Like the biggest investor in France is the French public bank, which is bonkers, if you ask me.”

“That's why one of the reasons why Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was arrested in France, because they didn't like that it was encrypted.”