How the Greek Debt Crisis Created a Thriving Sector of Startups
5 min readMar 30, 2019
In 2015, I met with a group of Greek startups at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to learn about the new-but-rapidly-expanding startup scene in Greece — particularly Athens and Thessaloniki.
What followed was the creation of many startups — particularly those that required little more than a desk and a laptop. What Greece did have was a highly educated…