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“You’re allowed to have something to hide”
Nothing is a coincidence. His father moved to the Netherlands before the third Balkan war, after meeting a woman from Amsterdam on a holiday. “Grandpa stayed behind, along with the rest of my relatives. My father is a radio communications enthusiast. He has a license to communicate using powerful radios. We lived in a tall…
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‘Appetite for Ambition’, speech at the Opening of the Academic Year 2013-2014 at Eindhoven University of Technology
Ladies – fortunately once again I see more of you than the previous year – and gentlemen, students and staff, I want to thank you very much for your invitation. I received your invitation as many as six months ago, which goes to show the high ambitions and careful preparation for this very special day,…
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“For everything I do, I ask myself: what can I learn from this, what could other people learn from me?”
Danny Mekić (1987) started his first company at the age of fifteen. Its rapid growth made it infeasible to keep up alongside high school, so he dropped out of school. Besides his company, he has completed a training as a mediator and studies jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam. Furthermore, he often appears as a…