Sebastian Stricker: “I did not expect this when we started, but there is a huge opportunity for doing good right now. It is the golden era for social entrepreneurship. New projects opportunities come up all the time. With the right team and motivation – everything is possible. If you have an idea, just go for it. Just do it because when you look at it from the right perspective, thereis not that much that you can actually lose.”
Uwe Horstmann: “What Rocket Internet companies were really good at was some sort of ‘hyper learning mode’. I don’t think we assumed that we would come up with better ideas just because we were smarter than anyone else, but because we were more aggressive in terms of learning. We would have conference calls at 7:30 in the morning with everybody on the line discussing what the learnings of yesterday were and what we were going to try to improve during the day. And then, we had another conference call in the evening and you were expected to have executed your experiments by then and gathered data.”
Jasper Masemann: “Founders who don’t have their ego under control have the big problem that they don’t listen to their customers and create a bad product. Especially if you want to convince a VC, I recommend a more modest approach – but of course you should also be bold. To have that combination in the right balance is really important.”