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

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