He love's technology and believes that the Internet is deeply impacting humankind. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of technology startups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, invested into early-stage tech startups, led Mozilla Labs, created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla’s Office of the Chair and invested into social impact organizations around the globe at Google.org. I also created the non-profit organizations Mentor for Good and co-founded The Coaching Fellowship; the GyShiDo (Get Your S%#& Done) movement and publish the influential The Heretic newsletter.
Today he heads up Singularity University’s startup initiatives, where they grow startups solving the most intractable problems in the world. Further he is the entrepreneurship chair and SingularityU’s Global Evangelist. I frequently speak and write about the magic which happens at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology & global impact.
He spent the last two decades (and counting) in the IT and Internet industry. Anchored in a broad education in economics and psychology at the University of Cologne/Germany and being an entrepreneur to the core, he has a unique experience in building open innovation systems, created technologies used by hundreds of millions of people and bring Silicon Valley-thinking to companies around the world.
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He love's technology and believes that the Internet is deeply impacting humankind. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of technology startups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, invested into early-stage tech startups, led Mozilla Labs, created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla’s Office of the Chair and invested into social impact organizations around the globe at Google.org. I also created the non-profit organizations Mentor for Good and co-founded The Coaching Fellowship; the GyShiDo (Get Your S%#& Done) movement and publish the influential The Heretic newsletter.
Today he heads up Singularity University’s startup initiatives, where they grow startups solving the most intractable problems in the world. Further he is the entrepreneurship chair and SingularityU’s Global Evangelist. I frequently speak and write about the magic which happens at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology & global impact.
