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00:03Macchio's opportunities are endless.
00:05It's a very small place
00:07and so being small
00:09you meet friends, you create friendship
00:12but you also connect very quickly
00:14with decision makers.
00:16I believe that in many places in the world
00:18success comes at the expense of long commute,
00:22of a compromise with family.
00:25Here, no, we can do both.
00:28I absolutely love this.
00:40I'm Jeremy Arton de Saint-Martin.
00:43I'm Belgian
00:44and I've been living in Macau for many years now.
00:47I first came here in 2009.
00:50The reason was to support the opening of a hotel in Macau.
00:55Professionally, I'm the CEO of ISA Technologies.
00:58It is a tech company that is based in Macau and Hong Kong.
01:05Well, the first time I arrived in Macau, it was absolutely not what I had imagined.
01:10It was very much a place of contrast.
01:13So on the one hand, you have this boom of hotels and casinos, international hospitality.
01:22And at the same time, you were in a place that is very much influenced by its history, which is
01:29Portuguese and Chinese.
01:34I'm also the founder of Liège.
01:38It's our waffle brand.
01:40This was a brand that was created by Maggie, my wife, and myself, ten years ago.
01:47The reason why we started the Belgian waffle, why we started Liège in Macau, is because of nostalgia and family.
01:54The people of Macau are very open to gastronomy.
01:58They are exposed to a lot of food coming from everywhere in the world.
02:02And so we thought that we should give that waffle a chance.
02:07Starting a business in Macau is fairly easy.
02:11I think the government and the administrations are trying to make it as straightforward as possible.
02:17Macau is very small, but at the same time, it's connected to the world.
02:20It is very well located.
02:22So in terms of business, it offers everything that an international city would want to boast.
02:28At the same time, it's a village.
02:30So we connected very quickly to the community.
02:34So we thought that this was the perfect place to create a business.
02:38but at the same time, build a family.
02:48Macau can connect you to the environment.
02:50So there's a lot of hiking trails in Koloan, some very green environments.
02:56So, you know, you have business, you have convenience with school and everything.
03:01But what about nature? We have it too.
03:07I coach rugby on Saturday morning.
03:10It started because I wanted the kids to do sports.
03:13And I'm a former rugby player.
03:14I saw the club, the Macau bats.
03:16It's run by also former rugby players who are parents.
03:21So the sense of community is very strong.
03:34I play in a rock band.
03:36We started as a small idea very quickly became something quite serious.
03:41We've performed in China, in Hong Kong, in Macau several times.
03:45See, that shows you that Macau allows you to do many things.
04:08Macau is a very safe place, but it's also a very multicultural place.
04:12So this is very enriching for the children.
04:16They learn to grow with, again, different cultures.
04:23And what is great is that the children are not only reading about the culture.
04:27They are actually living it.
04:29So it's a concentration of all these different cultures, and that makes Macau so rich.
04:35If I had to describe Macau in one word, I would say possibilities.
04:39Macau keeps on surprising you.
04:41It's a place, when you arrive, you find it very small.
04:44You're wondering what it is, but as soon as you start learning from it,
04:47you understand that it's much more complex than what you thought.
