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Poland doesn't need its own Silicon Valley. It just found $100 billion under a forest.
11 million tonnes of copper. 1 billion ounces of silver. The largest copper discovery in Europe since the 1950s, near Nowa Sól in western Poland.
Europe needs copper for everything: power grids, EVs, ammunition. Almost all of it comes from Chile and Peru.
Intel cancelled its $4.6B chip plant in Poland and everyone wrote obituaries. Nobody noticed 20x that sitting in the ground two hours away.
Bloomberg calls it the biggest foreign investment in Poland's history. Canadians are building the mine.
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Patelnia. The most honest place in Warsaw, and the ugliest. Not in any PR brochure.
- busker who can't sing
- babcias selling clothes like it's 1990
- random mural
- concrete
Only missing: fake dancing Native Americans and the guy drumming on a chair
Kaszkiet
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InvestorFromEurope retweeted
honestly think higher education is cooked with AI
a16z just started a 2 year student program in SF, on top of all their other fellowships
universities charge you $300k to learn skills that are outdated by graduation.
VCs pay you to learn what their 200+ portfolio companies actually need, then hire you straight into them
give it a few years and every big firm is doing this
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InvestorFromEurope retweeted
For once, Poland’s Ministry of Agriculture building was put to good use
Łukasz 🚜🌾
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Can confirm, I go to Oktoberfest every year.
Sadly wokeness found it too. This year the city's equality office got a ride to paint clothes onto its 80-year-old figures because they were "sexist".
Drunk adults on tables are fine. Cartoon cleavage was the problem.
I went to Oktoberfest in 2024 with my dad and brother and can confirm this is the vibe the entire time. Also, everyone is your new best friend the moment you sit down at a table.
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Sharing your journey here on 𝕏 does wonders.
Once I started posting, investors interested in Poland started knocking on my door, people wanted to hire me. New projects coming up.
You’re missing out if you’re just a lurker here.
Highly recommend hitting the “Post” button
Dzięki temu wpisowi właśnie dopięliśmy Klienta na 2 mln nitów rocznie, ok. 60 tys. zł* - publikuję za zgodą. I bardzo szybko poszło - nie wiedział, że można nity lakierować na miejscu i że to wcale niedrogo.
A wpisy na linkedinie idą w piach.
* 3gr/sztuka, taki rozmiar - akurat tańszych nitów już nie robimy 🙃
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New Yorkers reinvented a Polish kanapka and started charging $60 for it
Man kann New Yorkern wirklich alles teuer verkaufen, solange sie es in weißen Kartons verpackt mitnehmen können - in dem Fall eine Box mit sechs halben (!) Brotscheiben für knapp $60, davon $10 das mit Nutella.
Martin Auer: Definitiv der Geschäftsmann der Woche! #Sauerteigbrot
ALT Eine Frau sitzt draußen und präsentiert eine weiße Box mit sechs halben, verschiedenen bestrichenen Butterbroten aus Sauerteig, die sie sich tatsächlich für knapp 60$ hat andrehen lassen.
ALT Sechs halbe, verschiedenen bestrichene Brotscheiben aus Sauerteig
ALT Die Preisliste. Highlight ist das Nutellabrot, hier „Hazelnut spread“, für 10$ - ohne Butter!
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15 years ago, to earn 10,000 PLN (£2,000) a month as an intern in Warsaw, you had three options: McKinsey, BCG or Bain.
That was 3x the average Polish salary.
Last week Bending Spoons, the Italian tech giant behind Evernote and Vimeo, opened an office here. Nobody noticed.
I studied in the UK back then. For Poles abroad, consulting was the only reason to come home. Everything else paid too little and taught you less than London. At least that was the perception.
The government ran career fairs to bring us back. Everyone queued for the consultants. The rest of the room was state-owned conglomerates like PZU (insurer) and PKP (state railways).
Nobody pays UK tuition to land a job you can get with a free Polish degree.
Today: ElevenLabs, Palantir, Google, Revolut, Snowflake, and now Bending Spoons. Good salaries plus stock options. Goldman Sachs is here too.
Great talent pool. A more favourable tax system than London. Better lifestyle for less money.
Even skilled Western Europeans have started moving here. 15 years ago that would have sounded like a joke.
Warsaw changed and we started taking it for granted.
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Wondering if fiscal problems that clearly can’t be hidden anymore (amongst other issues) are one of the reasons why the Polish government has started more warmongering recently…?
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Requoting this for reference and easy access in the future
It’s needed every time I post about Poland’s economic success because there is always someone (not going to say from which country;)) in replies saying
“but it’s thanks to EU SUBSIDIES!!!11”
Short answer: it’s not.
There is a popular but wrong narrative that Poland’s economic rise is an EU subsidy story. Look at the list. Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Greece or Portugal get more EU money per 100,000 people than Poland. Several have been net beneficiaries just as long, but none compounded like Poland.
Since 2003 Poland’s GDP has grown 130%, the EU average is about 35%. Per capita income has gone from under half the EU average to over 80%. That is not what “funds did it” looks like. Funds helped build roads and trains, they did not create the factories, exporters, software firms, or millions of small companies that now generate nearly half of Polish GDP.
What did:
• A culture that treats hard work and entrepreneurialism as normal, not suspicious.
• Relatively low and simple corporate tax (19%, 9% for smaller firms) that let capital stay and compound.
• Early, painful reforms that opened markets instead of protecting incumbents.
• A state that stayed out of the way more than it micromanaged.
• People who left for London or Dublin, learned, came back, and started businesses.
If subsidies were the main driver of growth, should Southern Italy be an economic powerhouse?
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Current price of a COVID test at a pharmacy in Warsaw
Live Microeconomics 101 on demand, supply and pricing
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