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Not a single legit innovative technology company coming from Germany, a country which literally brain drains post-Communist and Mediterranean part of the European Union. Wirecard, Rocket Internet. What a miserable failure and waste of human potential.

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There are tons of innovative companies coming out of Germany. What you're saying is something like

"Not a single legit innovative technology company coming from Silicon Valley, a place which literally brain drains the world. Theranos, Zenefits. What a miserable failure and waste of human potential."

what a great response to a dumb statement

I'm neither German nor American. It's the brothers behind RE who bootstrap businesses to sell them to SV (lookup history of German eBay and Alando). I don't recall any SV startup aspiring to be acquired by German or generally any EU business.

I know plenty about their history. We’re discussing the German ecosystem here which is way way bigger than RI

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