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As an intermediate item between "Team Growth Progress" and "gGmbH Creation Progress" I would like to announce something life changing for Oliver and me!
We are moving to Berlin!
After working very efficient for the past 5 months on Lisk, we saw huge potential to get even more efficient by setting up an office. This way we really can work together, discuss new features more easily, and build a dedicated team of core developers around us.
This is a big change and we are quite anxious about it! I think it will be great. We reviewed several cities and Berlin was by far the best choice.
- Awesome city with a HUGE, international startup community.
- Good pool of employees.
- Bitcoin meetups with 1500 members and 100 participants on one event.
- NodeJS meetups with over 1000 members.
- Good infrastructure to other cities.
- Cheap (e.g in comparison to London).
I hope that you all see the benefits of moving into an office. We will still have remote workers, because it's not necessary to have everyone under one roof. However, having Oliver and myself, plus a few core devs in one room. Well, this just means good things
Before more suggestions for other cities come. It's not only a decision for the above reasons. It's also a personal decision. Oliver and I both have families. Berlin offers so much more than just a good city for startups.
It's also a great city to live in.
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