People Told Me I’m Crazy For Moving To Finland - Jan Goetz

Joy of Finland highlights Finland’s strengths and areas of improvement.

Jan Goetz is the Co-founder and CEO of IQM Quantum Computers. IQM is building world-leading quantum computers for the well-being of humankind, now and for the future and has most recently raised a €128 million Series A2 round. And like me, he also loves dogs.

In this episode, we discuss:

(0:00) Preview and introduction

(1:47) About Jan

(3:41) Why Jan pursued entrepreneurship

(5:56) Scientific community in Finland

(8:32) Finns modestly achieve great results by pushing the limits without complaining

(11:20) Comparing reliability of Finland and Germany; integrating to Finland as a German

(12:44) Nature

(12:56) Connecting design and technology

(13:54) Under-selling what we have in Finland

(16:12) Integration as an international

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