Michael Hollauf

Co-Founder and Board Member at Meister | Startups, SaaS, Productivity

Austria

About

Founder, Entrepreneur, MD with extensive product design and marketing experience. Been involved in the design, marketing and supply of highly usable web solutions for the past 15 years and been responsible for strategic planning and product management at a director level. Specialties: Mind Mapping - online and collaborative - with MindMeister, Web 2.0, Office 2.0, Viral Marketing, Product Management, Marketing

Experience

  • Meister (19 yrs 6 mos)
    • Board Member
      Jul 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

    • Managing Director
      Feb 2007 - Present · 19 yrs 6 mos

      MeisterLabs develops smart and intuitive web apps. Our flagship products MindMeister and MeisterTask support your complete creative workflow from social brainstorming to collaborative task management. The company was founded by Michael Hollauf and Till Vollmer in 2006. A global company headquartered in Munich, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, we constantly aim to improve our tools, setting new challenges for ourselves in the process. Our team is made up of about twenty young and enthusiastic people from all over Europe. What connects us is our love for technology, our obsession with design and the ambition to make collaboration as easy and fun as possible. MindMeister is the market-leading online mind mapping and collaboration solution with over 4 million users, 14 million maps created and over 600 million ideas generated. MeisterTask, the most intuitive collaborative task management solution on the market, has won 100,000 enthusiastic users in five months and is gaining traction quickly all over the world. MeisterLabs is a Google Premier partner and a pioneer in developing Apple iOS applications.

    • CPO
      Dec 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Contributor at Entrepreneur Media
    Mar 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 5 mos

  • Managing Director at Codemart
    Mar 2006 - Jul 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Director Product Marketing at Hyperwave
    Jul 2003 - Feb 2006 · 2 yrs 8 mos