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Jan Henric Buettner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

So it has to work in both scenarios.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

Wow.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

So you really think luck matters that much?

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

Yes.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

I mean, luck in terms of, I mean, I'm not a religious person, right?

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

So I don't believe like there's a guy sitting there and ruling everything, whatever.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

But I believe in fate and I believe in good energy.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

And I believe that if you give good energy into the world, good energy will come back to you.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

If you give bad energy to the world, it's going to haunt you.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

But again, I'm not acting out of fear.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

I'm acting based on my own

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

upbringing and instincts and what I think is right.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

So I always have done not what makes the most money or whatever, what feels right to do.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

Wow.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

So with the castle, did that feel right to buy that?

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

That 400-year-old castle?

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

I can tell you that that was like a very interesting thing, which is still going on to this day.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

Because in the end, there also comes a different thing into it.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

I'm a perfectionist, I'm a Virgo by sign, and so everything has to be perfect.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

So when I purchased this land, 180 acres, 40 ruins, and I then applied my perfectionism to it, it took like 20 years, 150 million euros to build the most prestigious private nature luxury resort.