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4 Painful Lessons I Had to Learn Again with My New Startup

A few months ago I started building a new product. It’s called Here and we’re building a community platform for meaningful and mindful connection. As I was contemplating it, I reached out to my long-term friend and mentor Hiten...

My biggest startup mistake: Thinking it would save me

Whenever someone asks me about my biggest mistakes from the past, I’m a “no regrets, everything had its meaning” kind of guy. But lately, as I’m back in the driver’s seat of building a product these days, I had...

Stop holding people accountable, start treating them as adults

When I was a young tech founder I fell into this common trap quite quickly once we started hiring people: Trying to hold people accountable for the (often undefined) expectations I had of them. I see this as an...

How to build “Selbst-Bewusstsein”: My new favorite German Word

A week ago I was right in the middle of the first retreat I ever held completely on my own with a client of mine. His name is Florian Zagler and he is the CEO of Zagler Müslibär, maker...

The people that think you’re an asshole

“The people that think you’re an asshole, they already think that about you now, Leo! You might as well do what you want anyway.” This Is what my friend Ed told me when I shared with him my fears...

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