When should a founder take a salary – and how much? 💰 At Clickky, we were profitable from day 1 - so I could pay myself whatever. 🚀 At 3DLOOK, I bootstrapped R&D for the first few years - so salary wasn’t even an option. My take after 3 own startups and 50+ investments:

I am 36 today and feel that there is a very big difference in my personal self-confidence compared to 10 years ago. At 26 you think you can do everything because you are still naive and stupid, while at 36 you think you can do everything simply because you already know it 😎

Thinking of leaving your startup? Do it right. I stepped down as @3DLOOK’s CEO after 8+ years - one of the hardest decisions ever. ✅ Be brutally honest: Why are you leaving? ✅ Ensure the company can survive and evolve without you. ✅ Test a new CEO for 3-6 months (try to find

Just canceled my #Calendly subscription after using it for 6 years. Love these moments - when you stop using an incumbent solution and switch to your own. We are gradually onboarding new users for our private beta every week - DM me if you want to try it😎

I'm super excited to be a part of Inception Studio upcoming event, where 40 of the world’s top AI builders will be building and presenting their solutions live at #humanx in Vegas next week! #humanx2025

Just landed at #humanx2025 - one of the main AI conferences of the year. Ping me if you are around! We are going to present something very cool in the coming days😎 Inception Studio

Just made my first business acquisition - and it changed everything. Turns out, tons of SMB owners run ops entirely via email. Chaos, missed rev, no bandwidth. So we’re building an AI copilot for them with this great crew. DM or drop “SMB” to join our design partner program😎

VC experience taught me a harsh truth: You can back smart founders and still create zero real value, paper returns at best. So I found a better formula - find and acquire undervalued software businesses and apply AI to elevate them. More on the story - in the next posts 😎

What if you could buy a profitable biz… Then train AI on its data, scale it fast, and repeat? Day 1 cashflow. Real customers. No PMF roulette. So I'm buying businesses, and running an AI startup at the same time😎 and they create a perfect synergy. How exactly? Stay tuned👆

Everyone is hunting the “perfect” biz to buy: 📈 High growth 💰 Fat margins 📚 Clean books <5x EBITDA 🤡 Guess how many actually close? Almost none. We did it differently: bought potential, not perfection - and used AI to unlock the upside😎

After 15 months in stealth (and 100+ deals reviewed), we're finally live! 🚀 Launching Rebel Capital - a holdco to acquire & scale overlooked software SMBs with AI. First acquisition: Leadature, a 17 y/o event platform trusted by SAP, HP & ServiceNow. Next: automate 80% of