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Had a friend that recently washed out of SoundCloud and returned to the U.S. I spent some time there and went to the disrupt Europe when it was in Berlin. I mig
by xfour 8y ago
Had a friend that recently washed out of SoundCloud and returned to the U.S. I spent some time there and went to the disrupt Europe when it was in Berlin. I might be able to swing it long term as my wife has an Italian passport but would be a longer process with that.
Seemed like when I was there it was something about a rocket and cloning US tech and SoundCloud were the two big games in town.
Has there gotten to be a more critical mass of companies there recently?
- expertentipp 8y agoSelling clothes, food, and insurances over the internet is big in Berlin nowadays. All "machine learning" - the user asks for shoes and gets a clown outfit, annual subscription to a local sushi place, and everything is fully insured in case of failure of German pension system. Positioning in Google search results is booming also.
- adrianN 8y agoAmazon is here, Twitch is here, Google is in the process of opening an office here. Microsoft has an office too, but I don't know whether it's engineering or not. Pivotal Labs has an office here. There is also Siemens who is desperately looking to adapt to the "digital transformation". There is a pretty healthy startup scene of smaller companies, check e.g. https://www.startupnight.net/startups https://www.startupnight.net/startups or https://www.adlershof.de/en/companies-institutes/directory/ https://www.adlershof.de/en/companies-institutes/directory/. There are also a number of smaller companies that aren't startups.