Jörn "Joe" Menninger
speaker
1,749 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Jörn "Joe" Menninger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 3.
Appearances
Gains, they cannot yet sell.
matched
It raised the tax exempt threshold under not optional's methodology that brought the German employee stock option regime much closer to US comparable level.
matched
Not identical, but close enough to remove the specific structural bottleneck.
matched
Why?
matched
Does this matter for recycling story?
matched
Because option value that actually reaches employees is what funds the next cohort of European angel investors and next cohort of European founders.
matched
If your employees never realize the value of their equity, the flywheel does not turn.
matched
If they do realize it, some percentage of them become angels, and some smaller percentage of
matched
of them start companies themselves, the ESO reform is not primarily about worker compensation, it is about capital recycling.
matched
If you firm
matched
is fund a scalar or corporate strategy team that needs to be visible in European scalar policy conversation.
matched
You can become a partner at St.A.Breate.io.
matched
Link down here in the show notes.
matched
The twenty twenty six strategy.
matched
Germany has since gone further.
matched
In July 2026, the federal government published its startup and scale up strategy spanning more than 150 measures across the full company lifecycle, from formation through growth through internalization expansion.
matched
It is not just a startup strategy, it is explicitly a startup and scale up strategy.
matched
Which in itself is a policy signal about where the government now understands the bottleneck to be.
matched
On the infrastructure side, our primary Startup IO interview with State Secretary Thomas Yasombeck details the DEHUB network and Startup Factories program.
matched
These are talent and spin-off engines.
matched
Showing 201–220 of 1,749 · page 11 of 88
← Previous
Next →