"I remember the stress levels with working our ass off for 3 years on the startup which failed. Having this little money to try to make the dream come true. I had a real breakdown. 10 years go by and y..."

"Right. Um we are a pretty unusual beast. Um yeah, unique almost. I think as far as I can tell um I think a good representation would be 25% private equity 75% tech company meaning we acquire companies..."

"We felt inspired at the prospect of building like the company being our product, building an institution, you know, Burkshire Hataway, that sort of company that people look at and think was a defining..."

"it was actually Daniel E at Spotify who introduced us originally and obviously he's built one of the great you know European origin businesses why do you think there are not more of them like obviousl..."

"I think the main reason is a matter of uh default old. Why does California have so much has had so much success over the decades? One of the reason is you have seen incredible companies being created ..."

"At the very beginning, we actually had another startup called Evertale and that was a failure. We learned a lot and actually the strategy for Bending Spoons, we came up with it through the failure of ..."

"I remember the stress levels with after working our ass off for 3 years on the startup which failed, having this little money to try to make the dream come true and uh and failing miserably at this sa..."

"That was the previous startup. Okay. Yeah. It's a cool story. At least I think it's cool. Um we basically we graduate two friends of mine Francisco Mateo who are happen to be co-ounders at Ben too. An..."

"And so between um Evertale and Bending Spoons, what was the where did the insight come from to be sort of an M&A driven acquirer of businesses rather than building them? Evertale was your startup by t..."

"And so we thought being really good at the functional knowledge and skills necessary to run a digital business really well is probably a matter of if assuming you are reasonably talented, a matter of ..."

"The the obvious one is of course you get to say you you can negotiate with a vendor for cloud infrastructure, advertising partner, better. So that adds probably a couple percentage points in eBay dumb..."

"Another major advantage of our model is that take Evernote. It's a very nice business, nice product, beloved product. Most people would consider the prospect of working at Evernote just average appeal..."

"We think about the jobs we offer as our most important product. So, you need to know who your customer is, what you are offering, how you're uh differentiated and have the courage of really focusing o..."

"It's difficult to tell. I suspect though it's a common trait of a lot of people who have achieved greatness in their vertical. I'm thinking for some reason tennis comes to mind and when I look at Nova..."

"One thing I I've learned um that's cost me a lot of uh sanity and uh and caused me some sleepless nights is that consensus is overrated and even dangerous at least when you're trying to achieve someth..."

"Oh yeah. I mean in the beginning again we had those 40,000 so we were trying to to get you know do some consulting like I said which never worked. I mean basically brought no revenue pretty much..."

"It's always been the same things on a high level. And that would be number one. So far we've always focused on digital technology. We haven't bought supermarket chains, nor do we plan to. uh because y..."

"I mentioned earlier at the beginning it was all what we could you would call asset deals individual apps and whatnot and um and then we had a period of maybe 3 four years where we saw that that very b..."

"One is how do you determine your function returns as a function of price paid. Mhm. >> The second one is how do we uh stay disciplined so we will really not pay more than we believe is right based on ..."

"you know, I'm okay if I hear no, but don't think you can get 25% more out of me just just asking. And then you got to be disciplined when they ask for more than you're willing to pay. >> You you absol..."

"...that helped accelerate before we couldn't use that because you you need uh to be have an established track record because before they take you ser I would do the same if I were them since then it's..."

"...understanding people and their cognitive abilities is quite difficult. Requires in and of itself great cognitive abilities. I find that >> if someone is eight out of 10 smart, they can only discern..."

"...you mentioned earlier that ultimately your main product is your company and the people that work here are the key people to attract the jobs or products themselves. What are some of your favorite w..."

"...What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you? So when I was a little kid or I was almost pathologically shy to the point that I was uh let's say diagnosed with autism. I think the diag..."