''Marco Veremis: I am the founder and CEO of Upstream. Upstream is a
technology company, producing marketing software for companies who want
to use the mobile phone to market to their customers. I was working in
London, and my co-founder Alex, who is also Greek, was working in
Boston. The reason we set up the business here, when we had the original
idea to be one of the first global companies to work on this sector
called ‘mobile marketing technology’; this was in 2001 when we started.
Basically, the reason we set it up here was because we knew that you had
pretty high quality engineering values in Greece.
We have three strong universities, before all
Polytechnic in Athens. In Greece parents still potentially even
over-invest in their childrens’ education. Not that we have excellent
universities, but we do have certain excellent professors. Now, these
professors pick the talent and almost always they send this talent off
to some of the top universities, especially in the United States and the
U.K. and some in Germany as well. You have a lot of Greeks in places
like MIT, Stanford and Imperial College and places like that. Most of
them study engineering. These guys are super qualified..''
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