Lukasz Gadowski
Lukasz Gadowski (* 29. July 1977 in Prudnik ) is a German - Polish Internet - entrepreneur , founder and venture capitalist .
Life
Gadowski was born in Poland and came to Germany with his family in the 1980s. He studied business informatics and economics at the University of Paderborn , the University of Mannheim , Georgia Tech in Atlanta and the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences .
Act
In 2001, while studying in Leipzig , Gadowski founded Spreadshirt , an online shop for individually printable textiles. He started in a corner in the basement of the commercial college and created a company with several hundred employees.
In 2005, Gadowski co-founded the studiVZ social network , which was sold to Holtzbrinck in early 2007 for an estimated 85 million euros .
In 2007 Gadowski moved to Berlin . There he founded Team Europe Ventures , a venture capitalist, together with several partners . His foundations and investments include the online shopping club brands4friends , which was sold to eBay for 150 million euros at the end of 2010 , the advertising service provider madvertise , the glasses retailer Mister Spex and the pizza service Lieferheld . In 2011 he co-founded Delivery Hero . In 2013, Team Europe sold its shares in Mister Spex after the eyewear company received EUR 16 million in financing from Scotish Equity Partners . Team Europe only holds residual shares. In 2011, Team Europe joined Hasso Plattner Ventures as a partner , an investment company with which SAP founder Hasso Plattner finances young Internet companies. The separation was announced in 2012.
Web links
- Wirtschaftswoche: The 100 most important Internet heads in Germany. May 7, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2012 .
- Handelsblatt: The 50 most interesting founders. September 29, 2007, accessed August 18, 2012 .
- WIRED: Europe's hottest startup capitals: Berlin. August 15, 2011, accessed August 18, 2012 .
- brandeins: Spreadshirt is growing at an alarming rate. July 2007, accessed August 18, 2012 .
- Nomination for the German Entrepreneur Award 2005 (PDF; 192 kB) 2005, accessed on August 20, 2012 .
- Lukasz Gadowski at Team Europe ( Memento from May 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Voß: The new financiers in the start-up scene . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . July 5, 2017, ISSN 1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed September 28, 2017]).
- ↑ Claus Hornung: What can it be, Lukasz Gadowski? Impulse, September 5, 2011, accessed August 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Speadshirt GmbH: Merchandising for free. Stern, May 17, 2005, accessed August 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Germany 2.0: The new Internet wave. FAZ, January 8, 2007, accessed on August 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Kevin J. O'Brien: Facebook and StudiVZ battle over Germany. New York Times, August 7, 2007, accessed August 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Holger Brandenbusch: The New Berlin: Portrait Lukasz Gadowski. Berliner Abendschau, rbb, September 28, 2008
- ↑ Claus Hornung: What can it be, Lukasz Gadowski? Impulse, September 5, 2011, accessed August 18, 2012 .
- ^ Corinna Visser: Millionaires Club: Ebay buys brands4friends. Der Tagesspiegel, December 20, 2010, accessed on August 18, 2012 .
- ↑ The Return of the Internet Pioneers. Financial Times Deutschland, August 22, 2010, archived from the original on August 24, 2010 ; Retrieved August 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Team Europe Fact Sheet (PDF) ( Memento from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nora-Vanessa Wohlert: Team Europe sells Mister Spex shares. In: gruenderszene.de. June 10, 2013, accessed November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Matthias Lambrecht: SAP founder finds startup experts. Financial Times Deutschland, August 29, 2011
- ↑ Magdalena Räth: Team Europe and Hasso Plattner end venture partnership. In: gruenderszene.de. October 2, 2012, accessed November 14, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gadowski, Lukasz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prudnik |