Julian Jost

Spacebase | Book great workspaces online

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Entrepreneurial CEO with over a decade of hands-on leadership in building, scaling, and restructuring digital businesses. - Strong in M&A, organizational scaling, digital process transformation and post-merger-integration. Experienced in scale-ups and mid-sized companies (50–150). - Demonstrated success in go-to-market execution, 0-to-1 product development, AI-automation, and operational efficiency across B2B services, retail, and consumer goods. - Implements value quickly through a consulting foundation with strong expertise in strategy, restructuring, turnaround management, and analytical problem-solving.

Experience

  • CEO & Founder | Change the way you meet at Spacebase
    Jul 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 1 mo

    We have changed the way we meet! Spacebase is a global marketplace for workshop and meeting spaces. M - Built an international marketplace for meeting and workshop spaces, scaling to mid-8-digit GMV and 65 FTE without major funding, headquartered in Berlin. - Led strong pre-COVID growth and a tough post-COVID restructuring, with significantly less headcount restoring identical volume with full automation using AI and API workflows. - Executed five acquisitions including full post-merger integration, and completed two successful partial exits. - Held primary responsibility for product development and go-to-market in the early years, later driving digitalization across marketing and operations, while consistently overseeing Finance and HR. - Established a profitable and recognized player in Germany that now runs standalone.

  • Consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
    Sep 2011 - Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Full-Time Consultant in Competence Center Consumer Goods and Retail • Strategic restructuring for one of the world's largest electronics retailer • Strategic realignment of a large industrial bakery • Format strategy for a European Pay-TV provider • Member of project-team for a commercial due diligence in the markets of personal care products, jewellery, and books • Self-responsible project for determining global trends that will affect retail and consumer goods industry in the coming 10-15 years

  • Horváth & Partners Management Consultants ()
    • Working Student
      Sep 2010 - Jun 2011 · 10 mos

      Working student in Competence Center Transformation by IT • Remote member of project-team for complete accounting and controlling redesign • Self-responsible preparation and moderation of workshops and presentations • Assisting in project management

    • Intern
      Jul 2010 - Sep 2010 · 3 mos

      Internship in Competence Center Transformation by IT • Enhancement of operational processes by implementing MS-Access database for illustrating accounting manuals • Support in deriving group-wide standardized account control • Development of internal executive reporting statements

  • Working Student at Bayer
    May 2010 - Jan 2011 · 9 mos

    Internship in Finance, Accounting and Administration Department • Preparing and analysing financial reports • Assessing of organizational improvement possibilities • Implementation of collaboration platform • Assistant of CFO

  • Intern at Shun Tak Holdings Ltd
    Apr 2009 - Jun 2009 · 3 mos

    Internship in Business Development Department MICE • Development of industry and competitor analysis • Preparation and presentation of workshops • Assistant of strategic management