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Thomas Grota was Investment Director at the Corporate Venture Capital firm of Deutschte Telekom AG. With his entrepreneurial spirit he supports startups and new entrants to establish a successful business and grow shareholder value.
As a Venture Capitalist he exited Swoodoo to Kayak.com, Apprupt to Opera Software, 6Wunderkinder to Sequoia Capital and myTaxi to Mercedes Daimler AG as well Content Fleet to Ströer AG.
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Just a reminder: Saying people are stupid because they voted for Brexit or Trump is achieving only one thing: electing populists in France, Italy and Austria – and giving AfD a significant amount of seats in German parliament. You want to prevent that from happen?
This is what you must do starting today:
A) Motivate people to vote! (U.S. had 49% of people not voting.).
B) Tell young people to vote is the only thing that matters for their future (UK got Brexit from votes of people age >40y)
C) Discuss solutions with those who support populist (you need to turn their votes ! People sharing you values don’t need to be convinced)
D) Understand the lost part of our society (those not in startups, driving uber, being an influencer on instagram). People who fear to lose their jobs due to digitalization, being on minimal wages, living in rural areas not being attached to „modern live“.
E) Start today – election day will come sooner than you think. Making lies obvious needs to start now. Not a day before casting votes. Avoid the post Brexit/Trump experience.
We are behind in achieving a majority.
If we don’t start today we have lost the election already. This is an up-hill battle for the so called elite. It’s not a „save thing“ and „we will win it at a close number“.
We are losing it already. Stand up and change. Now!