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West Meets East: CEE vs. Silicon Valley

on YouTube 31m
Talkat Infobip Shift 2023 · 2023-09-18..09-19· [startups-and-business]

speakers

name:Lucija Reic
linkedin:lucijareic
name:Bogdan Iordache
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name:Krisztian Gyepes
linkedin:krisztian-gyepes
name:David Polach
linkedin:polachdavid

resources

video:https://youtu.be/Q27BE0cYim8
slides:none on file

summary

Central and Eastern Europe has deep engineering talent and visible winners—Infobip and UiPath put the region on the map and alumni spin out product and sales teams—yet founders more often build sustainable companies than unicorns, with examples like GoStudent scaling from ~15 to ~1,500 people and BeatPanda growing fast but not exiting. Corporate funds and VCs are maturing—€50M fund raising another €50M, $20M private fund—and investors now expect winners that need >€500M outcomes, while seed rounds of €1–3M often show only hundreds of thousands in revenue.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Introduction to CEE vs Silicon Valley
  2. 2:25Is CEE the new Silicon Valley?
  3. 8:20Impact of CEE unicorns on ecosystems
  4. 15:26Founder mindsets: CEE vs Silicon Valley
  5. 27:17Europe’s conservatism vs US ambition
  6. 30:53Capital efficiency advantage of CEE

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