>- When I tried to read or watch reviews about SaaS solutions for invoicing / bookkeeping for German companies, the first half of the review is usually spent trying to convince people that moving off paper-based invoices and folders to all-digital is a good idea in the first place.

As a CTO of a leading company in this space in Germany, I have to absolutely agree. The technology we can bring to the table is years if not decades ahead of the current state of the art and the growth of all contenders in our space is surprisingly slow compared to our US based counterparts.

There are a lot of reasons to this from a culture and market pov, but in general I agree that Germany & Europe as a whole is in a bad spot technologically especially as engineering salaries are simply far below the US so the braindrain is rampant.