Hey, it's Manuel.
Startups 🚀
Since I’m a child, I have been building digital projects, building my first website at the age of 11. I probably built dozens of different projects by now, some were just for fun, some became successful.
At 19, I joined a fast-growing ed-tech startup from Germany, Beducated, as the first developer, after working as a freelance developer for a while. By the age of 21, I led their Product & Engineering department, which I continued for 2 years.
In my time, we raised 1M+ EUR, and grew the company from 0 to 1M EUR ARR.
When I was 21, I founded Blogtec — a platform that provides companies with high-quality SEO services by matching their tasks with the best fitting freelance-professionals.
We initially bootstrapped it to 500K EUR ARR, and later raised money from VC firms, family offices, and angel investors.
Travelling ✈️
I was born and grew up in the North of Germany. After I made it through school, I worked for a year to save some money.
Already as a child, I wanted to see the world, so with 19 I booked a one-way ticket to Bangkok to travel the world. Initially planned was 1 year, but after just 2 weeks I had a startup idea and decided to work on it abroad.
I ended up travelling around the world for 5 years, while working on startups. In those years, I’ve lived in Vietnam, Portugal, and Taiwan, and travelled 40+ countries.
Now, I’m still travelling a lot; however, I’ve set up a base in the beautiful tech hotspot Taiwan. You can regularly find me in Germany and Vietnam as well.
My Hobbies 🌴
- Building Startups
- Traveling & Backpacking
- Running
- Playing Guitar
- Reading & Writing
- Video Games