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The Jason Calacanis Rant against the Samwer Brothers and German Copying on TWiST Berlin

After acknowledging the innovative new startup spirit in Berlin (“this is a fiery group”) during the TWiST Berlin show, the host Jason Calacanis starts a rant against the Samwer Brothers and how they had ruined the image of the German startup landscape.

He said that Germany was getting a “bad name” because of the Samwer brothers whom he referred to as “lying and cheating … photocopying thieves”. According to Jason people around the world started to believe that Germans are not original thinkers and that this was not true! He asked the audience to “boo and hiss” at the Samwers whenever someone runs into them and to convince one’s friends to not work for them.

The audience loudly cheered in consent! It seemed that finally someone with broad international reach called out what many Berliners think.

by Nikolas Woischnik