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Reevaluating what is important with Dance’s CEO Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss

Eric is a legend in the Berlin tech-ecosystem. He founded SoundCloud and most recently the premium ebike subscription service Dance. As a founder, investor and father Eric is on a mission to fight climate change while making our commutes easy, elegant and sustainable. Learn first hand how his priorities changed over time.

Fabian Heilemann Jun 30, 2021 | 5 min
Culture Entrepreneurship Strategy

The 3 secret sauces behind Forto’s unicorn success

We founded Forto in 2016 with the goal to take global logistics into the digital age. Today, Forto graduated to Unicorn with its $ 240M Series C led by Softbank's Vision. We service >2,500 enterprise clients with our team of > 500 "Forties" in 12 offices in Europe and Asia. In this post, I share my personal insights on the three aspects that I consider the secret sauce behind the success story of Forto.

Fabian Heilemann Jun 19, 2021 | 4 min
Culture Entrepreneurship Execution Strategy

Top 5 patterns for outlier-success in technology entrepreneurship

When I look at the largest entrepreneurial success-cases in the tech-industry of the past decades, my focus is on two questions: What was the "secret-sauce" of each particular case? But also what is it that these entrepreneurs and their companies have in common in terms of patterns? In this post, I am condensing my observations from a number of companies from the US including Space X, Apple, Tesla, Google and Amazon but also from European showcases like Zalando or Spotify.

Fabian Heilemann Mar 20, 2021 | 8 min