He looked into opening a GmbH, not the other way around. He wants to do business in Germany.
You can absolutely go through this process without speaking German but it will cost you money in lawyers.
> I think his point is, English is the lingua-franca of the internet and international business.
Maybe the Internet, yes. But international business? I don’t think so. Maybe from a perspective of native English-speaking person it appears to him like that. But it’s not the case in many non-English speaking countries.
You can absolutely go through this process without speaking German but it will cost you money in lawyers.
> I think his point is, English is the lingua-franca of the internet and international business.
Maybe the Internet, yes. But international business? I don’t think so. Maybe from a perspective of native English-speaking person it appears to him like that. But it’s not the case in many non-English speaking countries.