I deeply care about health improvement and nutrition, incubating talent, optimizing productivity, music production and AI. And speaking. I excel at vecoming an insider in record time, building communities, executing operations-heavy projects, pulling together teams of A-Players, Whiteboarding, and creative content creation.
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Profitable Companies
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Community-Members
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DJ Sets Played
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Articles Written
What I am currently working on:
Discover my impressive projects with innovative ideas. See for yourself why I stand out.
My Library
Reveries and Articles
These are my own learnings. If there is no room to critisize, it means I wasn't trenchant enough.
A Longevity Food Start-up in a week
Usually, ventures in the food space require a lot of preparation. Here is how we launched a food company within a few days and scaled it to several hundreds of thousands in ARR.
How to Moderate a Panel
After having moderated dozens of events, I took some time to compile my learnings on how to moderate a lively panel discussion.
12 Rules for School
I finished education at three different colleges in two different countries. Here is why I would never study in Berlin and a glimpse in the important of campus communities.
How Your Career Can Safe Lives
I worked hard to get into McKinsey, until I read “80,000 Hours”. Realizing the potential my fellow students at UC Berkeley and I were wasting, I wrote this plea. And of course, I declined my McKinsey offer.
Process
How I Work
Some companies have been built in silence for years, for example Figma. I operate differently.
01. Find a trendy yet foundation-based Whitespace
There can be an advantage to being an outsider. Example: The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem at public universites, which are rarely centralized and leave room for new, better incubators. This is how AI Entrepreneurs at Berkeley was born. The launch of ChatGPT coincidentally fuelled the launch, but we still had to skip class and do the work.
02. Recruit a Hungry Team
There has to be a visionary. Assemble the a team of people who want to prove something. Drive > Experience. Friends > strangers > old friends. Convince a few advisors for social trust and credit. Keep them out of operations
03. Risk your Reputation
With a clear concept in mind, we move to the design phase. This is where I weave together visual elements, user-friendly interfaces, and all the creative components that will make your project stand out.
04. Plan(ning)
Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. I intentionally listed “Plan” after getting the team. If you plan too early, chances are you will never start. Which is how I approached this website.
05. Learn about the people in the space more than the space itself
If you’re an outsider, you can’t become a subject matter expert quickly anyways. Focus on early traction, an audacious vision, and focus on getting the important, seasoned stakeholder on your side and as advisors. It will be hard. Reach out relentlessly.
06. Execute Religiously
Skip everything; social gatherings, zoom calls, everything. Just execute. Success compounds. Pivot, but do not quit at the first obstacle.
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