Growing stronger

Tomasz Cudowski, Eurobuild CEE: We last spoke less than two years ago, around the peak of the pandemic. What do you remember about that time and what do you associate it with now? Piotr Kaszyński, managing partner, Newmark Polska: With challenges, no doubt about that. The pandemic, the first of our challenges, turned our professional, economic and private lives upside-down and significantly changed the way we do business, communicate and socialise. We have clearly redefined many things and reset our priorities. Our enterprise, resourcefulness and relationships were put to the test during the pandemic. I think that we passed that test both at the micro-level (in terms of individual businesses and families) and at the macro-level (as the humankind). As regards our company, we posted record revenues in the first two years of the pandemic, because many firms still wanted to grow, occupiers’ needs did not diminish and the demand for trusted advisors grew stronger – even large