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Bela Wiertz
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Bela Wiertz
@blwiertz
Building {Tech: Europe} & The Sandbox
Berlin
sandbox.techeurope.io
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Oct 9, 2025
    🇪🇺💸 @n8n_io just raised 180 million on a 2.5 billion USD valuation!!! And all of that: - As a solo founder (Jan Oberhauser) - With a German entity (No US holding, have a look below at the cap table) Maybe an exception to the rule. Potentially a proof that all the propaganda
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Sep 16, 2025
    German Grant Rant: Germany puts soooo much money into funding "Startup" hubs. The state of Berlin is right now pushing >30 million into a new tender for startup hubs. But who's going to get it? All the legacy bullshit institutions who learned how to fight with all the
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Nov 10, 2025
    If you are a good engineer in Europe and are earning less than 100k, reach out. We‘ll find you a better job inside Europe. Purchasing power adjusted Berlin based companies I know pay better than their SF counterparts. The reason: they raise in the US and can therefore spend
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    Matthias Schmidt
    @eurofounder
    Nov 9, 2025
    Recruiting our second engineer and had a call with an American living in Berlin We got to salary negotiations and I offered €35K He laughed and said “is that per month?” in an annoying Texan accent I explained that it is annual and actually very competitive for a senior
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Oct 26, 2025
    > be an ambitious European builder > benefit from one of the best, free education systems in the world > get opportunities you would’ve never had being randomly born in the US > once you’re no longer on the receiving but the paying end, think “ugh, taxes so high” > leave to
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Mar 12, 2025
    I’d bet plenty of Europeans in tech who moved to the US in their 20s are now rethinking their next life stage under the current circumstances. We need to show them they can innovate right here in Europe—at European companies. Next challenge: Find them 🚀
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Oct 25, 2025
    Everyone in Europe can just: Pay Money Buy GPU Have GPU Who is telling you to take the offering from the European Union?
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    @levelsio
    @levelsio
    Oct 25, 2025
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Oct 4, 2025
    Creating SF in Europe - lfg
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    Nima Sadeghifard
    @NimaSadeghifard
    Oct 4, 2025
    9pm on a Saturday. Builders keep building. cc @techeurope_
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Mar 10, 2025
    We can build in Europe. We are just brainwashed by US built narratives that the grass is greener over there. Wrap-Up of our @tech_berlin Voice AI Hackathon from last Saturday @elevenlabs
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Oct 6, 2025
    🇪🇺 Are labor laws really blocking European innovation? The Economist recently argued that Europe’s rigid labor laws are crushing innovation. There’s truth in that, especially for larger companies, where firing (and hiring) can be painfully slow. It creates inefficiency and
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Oct 11, 2025
    8am on a Saturday morning in Berlin! Berghain or @techeurope_ Hackathon? Can not tell...
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Nov 7, 2025
    I'm very proud to see how remarkably stable homicide rates are in the US 🇺🇸 Meanwhile, Europe experienced de-growth in this statistic. 📉 What a communist continent! That’s why I choose the US as my home, so my kids can grow up learning how to protect themselves.
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Oct 11, 2025
    300 people queuing for Big Berlin Hack We are soo back! 🚀
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Nov 10, 2025
    🥨 Why did Munich take over Berlin as the number 1 startup hub in Germany? Personio, Celonis, Tacto - The last generation of big German startups was dominated by Munich based startups, while Berlin was falling behind. 💡 The key ingredients for Munich's success: A deep
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    Bela Wiertz
    @blwiertz
    Jul 30, 2025
    🚀 Europe’s startup scene is heating up, with another soon to be tech unicorn, built in Europe. While not a unicorn yet, @n8n_io is reportedly in talks to raise ~$100M at a ~$1.5B valuation, just four months after closing a €55M Series B (ft.com/content/ec4a8f…). In 2023 I
    Germany’s n8n eyes $1.5bn valuation as Europe’s AI start-ups draw investors
    From ft.com
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