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Welcome back to another episode of the podcast. This is episode number 76, and today we are going to be talking about Pessel Instruments.

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let's get back to the show. I'm really excited to welcome Godfried Pessel, who is the founder

and CEO of Pessel Instruments.

Thanks for joining us on the show today, Godfried.

To get started, I'd really like to learn a little bit more about you and your background and how you got involved in this industry.

Thank you, Donnie. Godfrey Pestle.

I'm an Austrian entrepreneur, which I started in 1983, my business, which is quite a long time ago.

And when I started, before I was a banker, about seven years in a local bank.

And I'm also a son from an Austrian, I would call it subsistence agriculture family,

where we had to work not only in agriculture, but also we had a bed and breakfast.

And in a tourist area, very nice, very close to Kratz, which is the second biggest city of Austria, not far from Vienna.

And when I started my business, I started in strawberries. And because my cousin, who is a co-founder, was an inventor of a strawberry harvesting machine.

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