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Issue #25 (24 Oct) – jobs, news and Tolga with his döner.
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A dry week for Berlin, but still some movement in Munich & Stuttgart.
🇩🇪 Berlin & Germany
Holidu, Munich-based vacation rental company, raised €104M. Careers.
Quantum Systems, Munich-based drone manufacturer, raised $17.5M. Careers.
Makersite, Stuttgart-based digital twin company, raised $18M. Careers.
Maybe mandatory masks are coming back in shops & co. Maybe not. (🇩🇪) Politics. We will soon find out.
Nuri did not make it; it declared bankruptcy, while Enlivar, also Berlin-based white-lable fintech, laid off 1/3 of the workforce (130).
Some background on Getir trying to rule them all. (🇩🇪) But the question remains: can such 15-min convenience survive without the venture capital subsidies?
An interesting hobby: writing articles about terminal stations of Berlin, found via r/berlin.
What goes on in the heads of young men doing street racing? Some stats (in 2021 police investigated 799 cases of street racing in Berlin) and an interesting doku from RBB. (🇩🇪) Races are random, people just cruising around to find another idiot to race. Usually in dubious rented cars. “Ich bin nicht mehr ein Niemand, sondern ich bin etwas.”
Norwegian grocery chain Oda is coming to Berlin. I have published some of their positions previously; and they plan to add 800 jobs with the their online-supermarket approach, specialised for weekly groceries delivery with supermarket prices. Another reason to sell my car?
Find out who are Germany’s wealthiest founders (🇩🇪). Ok, it is mostly valuation-based paper money, but still. I work for three of them, and I bought two Ikea chairs from another for 50 EUR of Kleinanzeigen. No shit.
Are you getting ready to save some energy? Aldi Nord will close many of the stores earlier (at 8 PM); I was impressed by the fact that energy cost for a 1000 sqm supermarket rose from 80k to 120k this year. Anyway, if you want to learn about how to save energy and laugh, have a look at this “simple simple simple English” brochure from Verbraucherzentrale. “You use only the heater for heating.” Understood?
Netflix password sharing is coming to an end. It was a part of intentional strategy to suck the air out of the competition, because why would you use something else if you can use Netflix?
A disaster of football Super league is not dead yet and seems to be coming back (🇩🇪). If it happens, is this the end of football? I’d say so.
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🤓 Timeless and useful
The mother of all myth-busting pages, a list of common misconceptions on Wikipedia, for example:
The Pyramids of Egypt were not constructed with slave labor.
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dönerladen delivers for Tolga (via reddit)
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