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Andreas Klinger 🦾

Andreas Klinger 🦾

@andreasklinger

Mad-scientist investor main-questing Europe 🇪🇺 @prototype_cap 🦾 @euinc_petition 🇪🇺 🔧-prev: @producthunt @angellist @coinlist @beondeck ❤️ @susanneknoll

Berlin, Germany Katılım Mayıs 2008
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Andreas Klinger 🦾
Andreas Klinger 🦾@andreasklinger·
It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy… I got something to announce: We're launching PROTOTYPE: a new fund, fully focused on Europe. A small fund that punches way above it's size. With it we back what Europe is world-class at: robotics, automation, manufacturing, and anything that requires hard engineering. First check. First round. As early as it gets. Europe invented industry. We're the birthplace of precision manufacturing. The second largest manufacturing hub on the planet. Leaders in automation and robotics. And yet… We sell out our best tech to China. We export our best founders & most of our investment money to the US. That's insanity. What should we do instead? Build the next trillion euro companies in robotics, manufacturing, automation right here: in Europe. Showcase to young founders what is possible and change the system around them where needed. What we will do: → Publish all our fund updates and build in public: updates.prototypecap.com → Showcase Europe’s Most Ambitious Startups on Youtube: @prototypecap" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@prototypecap → Launch & support more projects like @euinc_petition. Enough talking about Europe. Time to build it: Startups, makerspaces, student clubs, and much more. → And most importantly, invest into the best founders in Europe. Same model as our previous funds that are in their top 1-5% cohorts worldwide. We won’t do a VC fund in the classic sense. This will be a community of hyper-ambitious people who want to actively change Europe for the better. It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy. Check out prototypecap.com!
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Catalin
Catalin@catalinmpit·
X is crazily dead while the USA is asleep. Are there no Europeans or is my feed broken? The only good thing about it is that I don't doom scroll and can work in peace.
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Andreas Klinger 🦾@andreasklinger·
@phil_rechberg @paulg i dont think zweckentfremdung works like this basically if it's residentially zoned you cant use it commercially - same in the US
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Andreas Klinger 🦾
Andreas Klinger 🦾@andreasklinger·
Sorry but outside of MAGA propaganda none of those statements are true > Well they do not castigate family values, woman and a man have traditional values and responsibilities. Russia is known for having women in careers - it was one of their main arguments against the west > Religion is a major factor Russia is less christian than many european countries. Mainly b/c of muslims but also b/c historical soviet didnt push religion > celebrate all religious holidays they have less religious practice than many european countries > elderly are respected their pensions are so low people cant even afford heating apartments your whole argument roots in "putin is anti woke" and the rest is whatever you think fits that narrative
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Fish Tank Media@SSManalysis·
Well they do not castigate family values, woman and a man have traditional values and responsibilities. Religion is a major factor, they celebrate all religious holidays, elderly are respected... Now I said that they are "still" because Putin has began saying words such as multiculturalism lately, which signals the same pattern of political idiology of the West Left leaning... Russia always follows the same changes that West experiences but only 7-10 years behind
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Stefan MNL
Stefan MNL@stefan_mnl·
You actually cannot be right-wing and pro-Russia
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Mario Zechner
Mario Zechner@badlogicgames·
hi, i'm a sole proprietor/founder in Austria and i earn many many multiples of what i'd earn as an employee, despite "predatory income tax". in fact, i opt out of the many tax optimizations i could use because i like having good schools and as high a standard of living as possible for everyone. the great thing about the EU is that you can just live under any tax regime you like in any of the 27 member states. it's all about trade offs. if poland works for you, fantastic! go build there. and if i may add one more thing: if the CEO of a startup, especially pre-revenue, lives "barely any better than a regular employee" then the system works as intended. fact of the matter is most startups are bad. you are not special because you are trying out a shit idea and fail. but i'll happily pay taxes so you can try your shit idea, fail, and can still live.
Denis Yurchak@denisyurchak

In Austria, a CEO of a startup lives barely any better than a regular employed developer A former boss of mine (an exited founder) wanted to buy a new desk Instead of going to IKEA, she went to a site for used furniture and searched for one there, because it was much cheaper For my Eastern European mind, this is incomprehensible If you put years of your life into building a business and take on the risks, you should be rewarded accordingly You should definitely have enough money to go to a damn IKEA and buy the best possible desk there (and write it off in taxes later!) But this is not the case here The system is engineered for equality and social stability The monetary distance between employers and employees is minimal, thanks to predatory income taxes Great if you are an employee, soul-eating if you are a founder

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Mayukh@mayukh_panja·
We need a twitter tech meetup in Berlin. - small event, restricted to 50 people - very low entry fee: 10 euros ( free events bring in unserious attendees, people looking for free pizza types) - serious builders only - 5 talks. 10 min each + 5 min for Q&A Most events I see are too broad and - almost anyone can come - or extremely high entry fee (like 300+ Euros)
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Steven Liss
Steven Liss@This_Liss·
Had a Jane Street phone interview in 2016. "Price a 6-month forward on carrots." There's no carrot futures market, so I build one from scratch: seasonal harvest cycles, USDA demand elasticity, cold storage decay rates. One trader stops me. "Your storage cost function– you're modeling the carrot as dead inventory. Like grain in a silo." He asks me the metabolic respiration rate of a post-harvest carrot at 2°C. I estimate. "Your forward is overpriced by exactly that shrinkage. The underlying is consuming its own sugars. It's alive." Good correction. I adjust the model. I think I've recovered. Rejection email comes the next morning. Subject: "Ethical Review." My framework, they write, "relied on the severance of the root organism from its growth medium." The question about respiration was a test. The carrot was still alive and I'd built an entire derivatives structure on top of its death without questioning whether harvest was an acceptable act. I pull up the recruiter's original email. It doesn't say Jane Street. It says Jain Street– a non-violent quantitative commodities fund. The carrot was never supposed to be priced. It was supposed to be refused. I later learn the only candidate who passed that round was a former monk from Gujarat who sat in silence for eleven minutes and said, "I cannot put a price on life." He's now a partner.
Deedy@deedydas

Jane Street made ~$40B in 2025 with 3,500 employees, a ~2x from the year before. At ~65-70% profit margin, that's $8M profit / employee, the highest for a 1000+ ppl company. High-frequency trading continues to be the most efficient money making engine. I want to share an old story about my Jane Street interview in 2014. Jane Street was known for hiring a lot of math, physics and CS olympiad winners from top universities and putting them through many rounds - including, for trading roles, a gauntlet of mental math. It was my 6th interview and my final round and I recall being asked "What is the next day after today in DD/MM/YYYY where all the digits are unique?" They'd toy with you and say "You can use a pencil and paper, if you want" but you knew that was an instant no. Painstakingly and as quickly as I could, I came to an answer. "How confident are you that this is correct on a 0-1 probability scale?" the interviewer said. "0.95", I blurted out, not fully knowing how to answer that. "Are you sure?" After thinking harder for a few more seconds, I realized I could've flipped the digits around to get a closer date. I gave the interviewer my answer. It was correct. "0.95 huh?" he chuckled. That's when I knew I failed. Note: fwiw, other companies that come close in efficiency are - Tether ($90M+ profit/emp) - Hyperliquid ($80M+ profit/emp) and on revenue: - Valve ($50M/emp) - OnlyFans ($37M/emp) - Craigslist ($14M/emp) - Anthropic ($12M/emp, run rate) - OpenAI ($8M/emp, run rate) For comparison, Nvidia is very efficient at scale and is $4.4M/emp.

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Andreas Klinger 🦾
Andreas Klinger 🦾@andreasklinger·
@LudwigBald @pitdesi 100% plus 3) the US has a voting system where all candidates who agree with each other spoil each other so outlandish behavior has benefit – additionally to being more catchy on social media
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Ludwig Bald
Ludwig Bald@LudwigBald·
@andreasklinger @pitdesi I think this is caused by two things: 1) the West is under economic and demographic pressure, no longer undisputed champion of the world 2) social media and the attention economy broke our democratic culture.
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Nikita Bier
Nikita Bier@nikitabier·
Would it valuable to know how many of your followers have been active on X in the last 24 hours?
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maddie
maddie@cozymaddiee·
das macht dann einmal 40 euro bitte
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Andreas Klinger 🦾@andreasklinger·
you are not in the room dude we are discussing something thats already 4 days old this was all discussed to death already you are not in the same room kids and babies vote too you cant influence them or beforehand train them because you get instantly teleported and put into this room
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Greg Molnar
Greg Molnar@GregMolnar·
@andreasklinger @thdxr Babies and kids do as their parents say in my world. If my kid wants to jump off a cliff, I am not letting that to happen for sure.
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dax@thdxr·
these results are crazy
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Andreas Klinger 🦾@andreasklinger·
@GregMolnar @thdxr yes but you wouldnt believe it. also stupid and naive people vote. and in the core definition of the original question even babies and kids - which then would vote in most extreme 50:50 foir their own death
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Greg Molnar
Greg Molnar@GregMolnar·
I see this differently. Pressing the red doesn't risk a lot of people. If you understand the question, it is clear that everybody should press the red button, except suicidal folks. Pressing the blue button makes no sense to be fair. It actually just gives power over my future into the hands of others that might actually not care.
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Andreas Klinger 🦾
Andreas Klinger 🦾@andreasklinger·
yea but most people by default won't vote to put his life at risk the question as its formulated reads to most people as would you do this thing that doesnt risk anyone or would you do this other thing that risks potentially a lot of people to save yourself 100% most people prefer non action and maximizing of life's saved
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Greg Molnar
Greg Molnar@GregMolnar·
You do your best to keep others alive, but the further they are from you, the less of an effect you have on that. For instance, how could've I kept the drunken bloke of the village alive? He was always walking on the side of the road, drunk as fucks in the evening and one night unfortunately someone hit him. You can't save everybody in reality.
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Andreas Klinger 🦾@andreasklinger·
@GregMolnar @thdxr eh… if that would be true we would be all maximalist individualists by genetic selection instead we are usually maximalist focused on keeping group alive (family, friends, community, etc etc)
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