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Erik: How is life as an entrepreneur different than you imagined it would be?
Fabian: My feeling was that entrepreneurs have a lot of holidays [laughs] yeah for some
reason I thought that, I thought being your own boss means you can take holidays whenever,
turned out not to be true… but having said that you know I believe that it is possible
to make that happen and I feel also we talked before about standard careers and doing the
atypical way, it seems also a little bit as if there is the standard entrepreneur model,
like working extremely hard and kind of not taking holidays and after five, six years
you have your exit or not but it’s really crazy a lot. I believe you can shape that
and what we do at Holstee for example is be very dedicated to say that we want to you
know spend maybe several months a year working from somewhere else and be very open to go
and take breaks if that’s, if that’s what it is for us, we say if you don’t feel like
coming to the office, don’t come, either don’t work or kind of work from a café
or somewhere else because in the end we didn’t become entrepreneurs to kind of end up in
the same situation where someone else will kind of tell us what to do and the same thing
goes for Sandbox that we – our team has moved for two weeks in Berlin, work two weeks
in Berlin, now they were two weeks in London and really moving a little bit around, that
is possible… but it’s not maybe how I originally imagined it to be.