It's official🎉. We officially founded OXYGEN GTM Inc. in the US.
It took us 45 minutes via Stripe Atlas, 2 days of processing, done.
Here's why we chose the US (over germany and switzerland):
GTM tech is a winner-takes-most market. A few great companies have come out of Europe, but we believe we can grow faster in the US.
Less bureaucracy. Sad to say as a German/Swiss team, but it's true.
It is the most investor friendly, easiest way for us to get off the ground without drowning in paperwork.
And it aligns with the bigger vision. We want to build this from San Francisco. That's where we think we have the highest likelihood of success.
That's at least the plan. I'm flying out on the 12. June to check out the scene for myself.
The backstory:
Philipp Hirte and I met at a GTM Engineering Hackathon. We had weekly calls and at some point we realised: "wait, we're building the exact same thing."
Our egos were too high to partner up at first lol.
But we kept talking, shipped iteration after iteration, and somewhere along the way the ego thing dissolved.
Then I took the flixbus to Munich and we briefly headquartered out of Philipp's apartment (the real startup garage hehe).
Now it's a real company.
If you're in SF, hmu. I'd love to grab a coffee and exchange notes :)
Really excited for this chapter.
It took us 45 minutes via Stripe Atlas, 2 days of processing, done.
Here's why we chose the US (over germany and switzerland):
GTM tech is a winner-takes-most market. A few great companies have come out of Europe, but we believe we can grow faster in the US.
Less bureaucracy. Sad to say as a German/Swiss team, but it's true.
It is the most investor friendly, easiest way for us to get off the ground without drowning in paperwork.
And it aligns with the bigger vision. We want to build this from San Francisco. That's where we think we have the highest likelihood of success.
That's at least the plan. I'm flying out on the 12. June to check out the scene for myself.
The backstory:
Philipp Hirte and I met at a GTM Engineering Hackathon. We had weekly calls and at some point we realised: "wait, we're building the exact same thing."
Our egos were too high to partner up at first lol.
But we kept talking, shipped iteration after iteration, and somewhere along the way the ego thing dissolved.
Then I took the flixbus to Munich and we briefly headquartered out of Philipp's apartment (the real startup garage hehe).
Now it's a real company.
If you're in SF, hmu. I'd love to grab a coffee and exchange notes :)
Really excited for this chapter.