Christian Geissendoerfer

I worked in France earlier on, and in France, if you put it upright, then unemployment money pays you for the first one or two years of your entrepreneurial venture.

What is that?

That's 60% of your last drawn salary for up to two years.

was between 102 okay got it france and why did you give it up like you just love the idea so much or you hated corporate i well the story is the story on the site is probably i am already as early as 1999 i wanted to build something like tinder location-based dating um are you single um currently i'm single yes

Come on, Christian.

It's okay.

I would do it.

I was a bachelor at the time, right?

A student.

That was my last year in university.

And, no, there was location-based technology, not GPS-based with cell phones.

There was pre-mobile internet.

There was one operator in Germany who offered it.

for different purposes, a location-based product.

So that's where we really, we had built the concept in a few PowerPoint slides.

We never took it to build it at the time, right?

But the idea was stuck in my mind.

And then I had opportunity work for Lotus and IBM, moved from Germany to Paris, so-called international exposure, worked on VP level in Europe with IBM.

So I learned a lot there.

i moved into sales again also in ibm sales school and stuff so i got a fair