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helipad on March 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web

From what I see, the Samwer brothers don't have great execution.

They copy a site, claim a userbase in Germany/Europe, then sell the site back to the people they imitated. It reeks of "go away" money.

Argorak on March 2, 2012 [–]

So how about Zalando being the biggest player in his field in Europe?

cburgas on March 2, 2012 | [–]

Was Zalando founded by them? I always thought they just invested in it.

Argorak on March 2, 2012 | | [–]

No, like most of the companies mentioned in the article. Zalando was a Rocket Internet incubator participant.

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