From €4 Million, to Zero, to €12 Million

You know, the Dutch lady was like naturally teaching Corbin how to run sales and the Czech guy was teaching me how he does operations. And it was complex but he couldn't wait. We liked it.

Great. That's great. And what about number of employees and age of business?

So actually last year or the year before, we celebrated 30 years of the business.

Oh, okay, great. Maybe, maybe you said that, but I missed it.

Yeah, yeah, it ran for a few years under just under the name of the founder and then later on it renamed itself, you know, to the company name. And recently we celebrate 30 years.

Congratulations to, to the business and to everyone and to you guys. Ivona, on this point about former Soviet businesses, this is something I've, I've heard a couple people, searchers in, in former Soviet countries say that there is this interesting phenomenon where the boomers now or, or those, you know, those who started their, their businesses in the, after the fall.

So in the early 90s, that really, that's the first there, as you kind of already said about your own father, that was the first generation. This is the first generation. There were those retiring today are the first generation really of business owners.

And I don't know what more. Is there anything more to say about that other than just stating it? Is there, is there some psychological aspect that plays a role there?

I just think it's so interesting that it's like, yeah, these are all the very first kind of capitalists for me.

I have really high respect to these people. Those were the very first risk takers in this country. Those that were not so influenced by the, you know, hopelessness and skepticism coming out of communism.

I, I really respect what they built. I respect that they had the courage to, to get into it. You know, some of them still, still are in the companies, of course, some of them retired and it's a fascinating time.