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Today we're happy to welcome John Frankel and Maciej Skarul.

John founded ffVC back in 2008. ffVC is a leading New York City-based VC firm which has demonstrated success scaling global tech business. And you might be asking: \u201cA US based fund in The European VC pod?!\u201d. Listen to this episode and you\u2019ll understand why.

Maciej, our other guest, is a partner at ffVC and has over 12 years of experience in investment banking and M&A. Based in Poland, he is one of the two partners leading ffVC\u2019s European arm in Warsaw. ffVC Warsaw works in conjunction with the rest of the ffVC network to bring to Poland everything that ffVC has done over the past twelve years in the US.

In this episode you\u2019ll learn:

\u2013 Why a US focused VC decided to invest in Poland and the ecosystem challenges they are facing with more conservative investors

\u2013 How the European culture can grow from million to billion-dollar exits

\u2013 How their early investments are turning into a global seed stage footprint

\u2013 The attraction of building US focused businesses using European tools and teams, since CE startups are 3x more cost efficient than their western pears