Berlin, Berlin, Germany
I've always enjoyed building new things, which brought me through several startups and then co-founding Contentful. I have previously been directly involved in development, devops, marketing, product and sales, over time transitioned to leading the team, and now focusing on vision and strategy. There's nothing more awesome than working with smart and passionate people on a platform that empowers organizations to build innovative things. Not just another boring website, but the digital experiences they have been dreaming about (VR, IoT, mobile, cars, ships... you name it)! Contentful is growing quickly and... - is helping for-profit and non-profit organizations to build digital experiences (customers include Spotify, Lyft, Porsche, WeWork, Twilio, Red Bull, Urban Outfitters and many more) - has been featured positively numerous times by industry analysts like Forrester, Gartner, Thoughtworks or 451 Group - mentioned in the press (TechCrunch, New York Times, Forbes Cloud 100, VentureBeat, NextWeb) - raised $300m+ in funding from top investors (Benchmark, Tiger Global, General Catalyst, Sapphire, Salesforce Ventures, Balderton, Point Nine) I currently split my time between Berlin and San Francisco. We are hiring: https://www.contentful.com/careers/ (dear recruiters, no spam please)
Contentful powers digital experiences for major brands around the globe. Its content infrastructure provides developers a powerful set of APIs to manage, integrate, and deliver content to any device or service -- be it mobile apps, IoT devices in the home, SaaS products, Super Bowl campaigns, smart car dashboards, digital signage, VR and AR experiences, or the next big platform yet to come. We're a fun team of over 250 people from 45 nations with offices in Berlin and San Francisco, looking for more amazing individuals to join our team!
Contentful powers digital experiences for major brands around the globe. Its content infrastructure provides developers a powerful set of APIs to manage, integrate, and deliver content to any device or service -- be it mobile apps, IoT devices in the home, SaaS products, Super Bowl campaigns, smart car dashboards, digital signage, VR and AR experiences, or the next big platform yet to come. Built the company from the ground up to tens of millions of dollars in subscription revenue. Grew the team from 1 to about 300 employees, with offices in Berlin and San Francisco.
Small scale business angel investments. Sharing my experience and helping other founders build and scale their companies. Focus: Dev-tech, SaaS, Impact, Cleantech
Incubator for different startups and MVPs. Renamed the company to Contentful after initial traction showed it is the most promising idea.
I thought about an MBA after my previous startup, but felt I always learned more by doing things by myself. So I used my iOS, web and backend development skills to work on projects with agencies and larger enterprises while doing my own self-studying MBA (100+ books). We built many mobile apps during the early gold rush times of the Apple App Store. The Content Management Systems we used never worked the way I wanted to, which led me to Contentful.
Second startup. First one that was more serious. Tagcrumbs was a social bookmarking service ("Delicious") for places in real life. Kind of like Foursquare, but without the check-ins. I developed the server backend and the iPhone application. We had about 10k+ users, all bootstrapped. Ad revenue was low and in these days no real seed investor, accelerators or incubators existed in Europe. So we decided to shut down the service.