Fabian Theis described his perspective on startup activity as academic, based on an overview and intuition rather than day-to-day experience inside startups.

“I, I, I should disclose before I sort of go to, to the answer that obviously my, my opinion is quite academic in the sense that whenever I talk to, to my, my friends and colleagues that really sort of day by day sit in, in the startups, they have like, like what I sort of have as an overview and sort of a bit of intuition what the different research labs do, they have the same thing for the startups.”