How Fast Can You Scale?

Serial entrepreneur Lukasz Gadowski is one of the core people in Germany’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Lukasz founded his first successful company Spreadshirt in 2002. Today, Spreadshirt has over 1,000 employees and is preparing to go public. Lukasz is also the co-founder of Delivery Hero and founded or co-founded several other companies such as Mister Spex, Vertical Media (Publisher of Gruenderszene) and Circ. Being the founder & CEO of Team Europe and the co-founder of Point Nine Capital, Lukasz is also an active investor and business angel. Among his portfolio are Skyryse, Skydio, Volocopter and a few other undisclosed aviation companies, Miles, Bird, Enpal and two other undisclosed energy companies, Apollo.vc and Aroundhome (formerly Käuferportal).

Lukasz Gadowski, Serial Entrepreneur | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #9

00:00 How Lukasz got started in the entrepreneurship domain

04:44 About cmplementary characters in founding teams

05:35 How Lukasz found his co-founder

08:20 About the idea for Spreadshirt

11:35 The big problems Lukasz is focusing on

17:19 The idea behind Lukasz’ portfolio company Volocopter with Team Europe

20:49 How much time to market do you expect for aviation companies like Volocopter?

27:03 Which other areas apart from aviation are you interested in?

28:38 Do you have a gameplan to attack the biggest problems?

32:20 Core mistakes that founders are doing

35:38 Are there any indications for when to scale a company?

38:25 How can you find good investors?

39:12 Lukasz’ advice for the beginner stage