Christian Geissendoerfer

I think out of corporate life, but I also didn't see myself growing into that to become an IBM executive at some point.

So that's where then, when 2007, the iPhone came out, I pulled basically the trigger for myself and leverage on being able to get out of corporate on that soft landing, I would call it and research a lot on technology and business models around location based first dating again.

So I've had

seriously thought of building a location-based dating platform at the time so this was 2007 but decided then that advertising was and at that time i was married by the way for the side note makes sense you didn't get into the display stuff into advertising yeah yeah so hey we only have about a minute left so i wanted to give you a chance what's the url for the accelerator and quickly tell us why you launched it

So there I'm working together with the German government.

It's GermanAccelerator.com.

The program exists for expansion to the U.S.

already since five years.

And now we're launching this for the whole Southeast Asia based out of Singapore.

German companies can apply to get help with mentoring, office space, and active outreach.

Do you give capital as well?

It's not capital, but also there's no equity stake or payment from the company.

Then why do you do it?

No, sorry, for the companies.

Myself, I'm getting salary with that, but I just, over the time, I've built a network.

I love helping other companies.

And that's the German government paying us.

That's The Monk and the Riddle from Randy Commissar.

Not a specific one, but I'm part of CEO Collaborative Forum where it's a great peer group and there are a few aspiring CEOs in there.

For example, Rui Paiva from Vido Technologies in Portugal.