Scaling Europe
00:19:56 · Sebastian Johnson
[00:19:56] S0: And I I think that's, yeah, so true for The UK as well. You know, we had so many amazing fintech unicorns that were built and scaled at the same time as Revolut, but the vast majority of them just stayed laser focused on The UK market. Well, Revolut had that mentality and have seen incredible success. You... You're often bucketed into this cohort of companies, is like Sana, Lovable, Legora, you know, this generation of sort of AI native companies coming out of coming out of the city in the country. Is that a fair cohort? Do you see yourself... You know, from the outside the rest of Europe, you look like a a tight group of phenomenal founders. Does that... You know, do do you see each other frequently? Is there a sense of real community among Swedish founders? Is that a real thing, or is that just a bit of romanticization from the rest of Europe?
00:20:39 · Lukas Saari, Sebastian Johnson
[00:20:39] S1: Yeah. I mean, it's definitely a small ecosystem. I had dinner with the founders of two of those three companies earlier this week. Okay. So, I mean, we're definitely close to each other. We connect regularly. I'm super inspired by those journeys as well. I think that for me as a founder, the other companies that I draw the most inspiration from are those that are, like, building in the same cohort or maybe are, like, one year ahead and so on. They're taking, like, Legora that are building essentially the same company that we are doing, but they're doing it in another vertical in legal instead of health care and so on. So I think it's also incredibly valuable to just have these, like, sparring partners so closely available. [00:21:15] S0: Yeah. Amazing. Must be must be such a powerful thing to have. Well, Lukas, a huge congratulations to you and the team on this amazing round. I love to see a European company in Europe for Europe, backed by Europe. Couldn't be happy for you and the team. [00:21:28] S1: Yeah. Let's go Europe. Thanks, Sam. [00:21:30] S0: Let's go, man. Thank you very much.