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My top ten books in 2020
Initially I was planning to write a longer 2020 personal recap, but after an exhausting year (for all of us), I am keeping it short. The year had many ups and downs for me personally, and specifically the first lockdown in Germany was particularly tough for me. Luckily the summer
My last twelve months
Exactly twelve months ago I left figo, the startup I have been working for more than five years. I left with the perfect plan: to found my own Fintech startup. But, as I have described painfully in a previous blog post, I broke up with the co-founder and idea before
My books in 2019
The year is coming to an end and like last year (My books in 2018), I am blogging about the books I have read this year. Initially, my goal was to read 52 books (one per week), however, I changed my mindset already in the first half of the year.
My Vipassana experience: Ten days in noble silence
A few weeks ago I got back to Berlin from a nearly six week trip to India. I stayed most of the time with my family-in-law in Mumbai but at the very beginning of my trip, I went for a ten days Vipassana (kind of meditation retreat) in Mumbai. In
The art of (not) picking the right cofounder
They say picking your cofounder is like picking your spouse and I guess one of the parallels is that many don’t marry their high school love… I mentioned in my last blog post that I am working on my own FinTech venture. The idea was an online service for
A personal update
“It could be over in three months from now”. I was sitting in the house of figo co-founder André Bajorat and we were chatting about the potential of turning figo from a B2C banking app into a banking API provider. I had just returned from my master studies in the
My books in 2018
The year 2018 is coming to an end and it’s time for me to pick up my weekly blogging again. My last blog post is actually from May and a busy summer season gave me enough excuses to not start again. And once the habit is broken it’s