Lars Hinrichs

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Lars Hinrichs (2010)

Lars Hinrichs (born December 18, 1976 in Hamburg ) is a German entrepreneur and founder of the global internet network for private and business contacts XING (formerly openBC).

Life

Hinrichs comes from a Hamburg entrepreneurial family. His great-grandfather founded the town bakery on Gänsemarkt . His first company was the website politik-digital.de in 1999 , which won several awards. Then Lars Hinrichs and his business partner Peer-Arne Böttcher developed a virtual presidential candidate (“Jackie Strike”) for the American election campaign in 2000. Her “Böttcher-Hinrichs AG”, a PR and communications agency for Internet Start-up company that went bankrupt in 2001.

In 2003 he founded the “Open Business Club GmbH”, today Xing SE , an international network in which the members primarily manage their professional contacts. Hinrichs also founded the investment company Cinco Capital GmbH in 2003. Through this he has invested as a venture capitalist in numerous companies, including Qype , Prezi , mytaxi and Flip4New as well as the venture capital funds Index Ventures, Founders Fund and btov.

On January 15, 2009, he gave up his position as CEO of Xing and moved to the supervisory board . In November 2009, Hinrichs sold the majority of its stake in Xing to Burda Digital GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media , which thus became the main shareholder. Accordingly, in January 2010 he gave up his position on the Xing Supervisory Board. The sale generated proceeds of 48 million euros.

In 2010 Hinrichs founded HackFwd. This was a network-based concept for distributing venture capital . With HackFwd, Hinrichs wanted to encourage people to start their own businesses. In order to give them the financial freedom to implement their ideas in the form of their own companies, he wanted to “free the best programmers in Europe from their day-to-day jobs” by continuing to pay them their previous salary for about a year. Three years after it was founded, Hinrichs announced the end of HackFwd. At this time, Lars Hinrichs and HackFwd were involved in a total of 16 companies; no shares of these could be sold, which Lars Hinrichs cited as the reason for the termination of HackFwd.

The apartment building project Apartimentum in Hamburg- Rotherbaum , initiated by Hinrichs from 2010, is intended to demonstrate the possibilities of intelligent building technology (“ Smart Home ”).

Lars Hinrichs is an active member of the Young Global Leader (YGL) of the World Economic Forum and the Young Presidents' Organization. Hinrichs has been on the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Telekom AG since October 1, 2013, and is elected until 2024. Since June 9, 2016, Hinrichs has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of xbAV AG in Munich. From 2009 to 2011 Hinrichs was an elected member of the German Committee for UNICEF .

Hinrichs is the father of two children.

Other activities

Lars Hinrichs is an honorary member of the jury for " Top 100 ", an award for the most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our awards. In: politik-digital.de. October 22, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2010 .
  2. ↑ A face for Jackie Strike. In: Die Welt, July 5, 2000, accessed on September 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ Lars Hinrichs' curriculum vitae ( Memento from February 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Xing founder Lars Hinrichs invests in Impossible Software. In: deutsche-startups.de. March 30, 2010. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Press release XING, [date missing]: Change to the supervisory board  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / corporate.xing.com
  6. ↑ Press release XING, November 18, 2009: Hubert Burda Media new main shareholder of XING AG ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Press release XING, January 22, 2010: Change in the XING AG Supervisory Board ( Memento from February 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Melanie Wassink: XING network portal - Lars Hinrichs sells company share to Burda. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Axel Springer AG , November 19, 2009, accessed on July 25, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Tweet from Lars Hinrichs. June 7, 2010, Retrieved July 25, 2010
  10. ↑ Lars Hinrichs: "There is enough money - no matter for whom" , t3n, November 16, 2011. Retrieved on April 4, 2012.
  11. ↑ Lars Hinrichs quits HackFwd. German startups, accessed on September 13, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Kim Rixecker: 3 years, 8 million and 16 startups later - HackFwd is ending. (No longer available online.) In: t3n magazine. September 12, 2013, archived from the original on September 12, 2013 ; Retrieved September 13, 2013 .
  13. ↑ https://apartimentum.karla-fricke.de/apartimentum
  14. ^ Martin U. Müller : Assisted living in the smart home. In: Spiegel Online . September 6, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2017 (German).
  15. ↑ Christoph Fröhlich and Daniel Bakir: A visit to the smartest house in Germany. Stern.de / G + J Digital Products, accessed on August 24, 2016 .
  16. ↑ https://www.telekom.com/de/konzern/aufsichtsrat/aufsichtsratsausschuesse/lars-hinrichs-336172
  17. ↑ xbav.de: xbAV converts to AG - Lars Hinrichs becomes chairman of the supervisory board  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.xbav.de  
  18. ↑ UNICEF Annual Reports 2009-2011 . ( unicef.de [accessed on August 29, 2017]).
  19. ↑ What moves Lars Hinrichs? The time retrieved July 29, 2010 .
  20. ↑ top100.de: The jury of the TOP 100 innovation competition ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 2, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.top100.de
  21. ↑ Lead Awards 2007 - The winners. Retrieved July 25, 2010 .
  22. ↑ Cicero: The Digital Elite Interview with Lars Hinrichs from September 11, 2008
  23. ↑ Hüsing, Alexander: Lars Hinrichs is Germany's most important web founder. In: German Startups. August 4, 2010, accessed on September 23, 2010 (German).
  24. ↑ Young Global Leader Honorees 2008. (PDF; 96 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved July 25, 2010 .
  25. ^ The IT Hall of Fame , Computerwoche, June 26, 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  26. ↑ Germany's digital minds - those who have won awards , Gesellschaft für Informatik. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Hinrichs, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and founder of the XING Internet network
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg