Rocket machine

摘要

Why Both Er With accelerators? Why not just hire a bunch of clever youngsters, provide them with the necessary cash, support and technology, and tell them to pursue a business idea with a proven success record? That should make it possible to starta new company in weeks, not months oryears. In a nutshell, thatis the idea behind Rocket Internet, an e-commerce conglomerate based in Berlin. It controls 75 firms in 50 countries with a total of more than 25,000 employees and a combined annual revenue of more than €3 billion ($4 billion). Together with two similar outfits, Project A and Team Europe, also based in Berlin, it has pioneered a category called "company builders".