Max Chafkin für Inc. Magazine:

In a country with one of the lowest rates of entrepreneurship in the world—Germans are so risk averse that most still don’t use credit cards—Samwer is an anomaly: a swashbuckling Internet mogul with an estimated net worth of $1 billion. He is both the most important German entrepreneur and the most reviled.

So wird Deutschland im Rest der Welt wahrgenommen.

Über die Arbeitsweise von Rocket Internet:

A few days after I meet with Samwer, I visit Rocket’s headquarters, a six-story office building on the old East German side of the Brandenburg Gate that houses 200 of the company’s 500 employees. I listen as managing director Alexander Kudlich explains how he and Samwer decide which start-ups to imitate. The market must be big—$1 billion or more—and there must be a proven business model that has worked in another region.