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The biggest and best deed of the Samwer brothers was to make Internet entrepreneurship big in Germany. Before they sold Alando back in the day to ebay and later
by APuschilov 15y ago
The biggest and best deed of the Samwer brothers was to make Internet entrepreneurship big in Germany. Before they sold Alando back in the day to ebay and later exited Yamba only few people regarded entrepreneurship as a viable career path. It was mostly due to their success that people started following their example. Nowadays, whenever you read about a startup being funded in Berlin chances are that both the CEO and her company's seed investors were at one point working for Rocket Internet, e.g. Wooga.
- hef19898 15y agoYou mostly right, Yamba was basically the first time I slowly started that entrepreneurship was actually a viable option. Up to then, start-ups were companies like Yahoo, eBay and Amazon, meaning it was impossible to do that in Germany. And while it is completely understandable that they now try to make the last cent possible,they took a good thing too far. IMHO there are better things to do with their ship load of money sitting around than founding yet another clone to exit to the original innovator.