Bets often have unintended consequences. In the late 1990s, a Dutchman named Arjan Bakker came to Poland after losing a bet whose stake was a trip to the country. But he fell in love with Poland, decided to stay and started a business. One day he came up with the

In 2007, Estonian management consultant Kristo Käärmann moved to London to work for Deloitte. Kristo still had a mortgage back in Estonia and every month had to send money from a British bank to his Estonian account to cover the payments. And every month, the bank charged him about 5%

In August last year, Klarna raised $460 million at a $5.5 billion valuation to expand its presence in the United States. Two days ago, Reuters reported [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-klarna-funding-exclusive/exclusive-klarna-talks-to-investors-on-raising-funds-at-over-10-billion-valuation-sources-idUSKBN25Z20W] the Swedish company is targeting another $500 million raise, this time at a $10 billion valuation:

> This post was co-written by Pauline Guého [https://twitter.com/paghuo] from Heartcore Capital and me. It’s our attempt to understand the rise of Gymshark and how they managed to become a billion dollar company with no outside funding until now. A few weeks ago, Gymshark raised £200 million

Almost 100 days ago I challenged myself to do a daily thread [https://twitter.com/gonsanchezs/status/1263564843266846725] on something going on in European tech, and for every miss I would donate $100. It was a forcing function to learn more, get myself out there, and increase my production cycle

Cazoo [https://www.cazoo.co.uk/], a company that enables customers to buy a used car online and get it delivered for free “in as little as 72 hours” raised £25 million, turning it into a unicorn in record time. From Sifted [https://sifted.eu/articles/cazoo-unicorn/]: > Cazoo, the used

It's been a busy pandemic for Jitse Groen. Weeks after Takeaway closed an $8 billion deal for Just Eat and became Just Eat Takeaway (JET), Jitse got to work and acquired Grubhub. From the Financial Times [https://www.ft.com/content/58c0f467-3510-41c6-8155-a4072e6e3575?segmentId=776b81d7-dd92-c731-e669-99cdd37d3a96#myft:my-news:rss] : > Just Eat Takeaway,

> This is a free preview of a Premium Member only post. If you want to read the full article consider subscribing [https://www.seedtable.com/membership] for €10/month or €100/year. In the late 1990s, equity investor John Muse from Hicks Muse Capital was invited by legendary professor Jack

One of my hobbies is identifying interesting opportunities and fast-growing companies. I even keep a list of the major industries and some interesting companies to invest in. But I’m usually interested in early stage deals. I don’t think late stage investing is as interesting, or that I have