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🏆 Co-founded Kreuzwerker, bootstrapped it to 150 people and Exited.
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🏆 Ex-athlete. Played in the NFL for the Phil Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, and Chicago Bears.
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CEO & Founder Jamie
🏆 Grew jamie to multimillion ARR.
The best part isn’t the advice. It’s knowing there are other founders dealing with the same challenges.
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🏆 Ex-YC (S18), 15 years in trading, ex-Lehman Investment Banker.
The quality of founders here is exceptional. Within the first week I had conversations that changed how I think about my business.
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🏆 Former top-50 junior tennis player in Europe and multiple-time national champion. Now 36k customers and 2m online sales.

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Xaver Lehmann is a founder, speaker, and investor from Munich.
He built e-bot7 from a student apartment to a $60M exit, scaling to 130+ employees across Europe. After burning out twice building AI startups, he created The Honest Founder to help ambitious Founders scale without losing themselves in the process.
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