Christian Vollmann - Building the first of a kind green methanol plant, Learnings from building and selling multiple digital businesses and the importance of Mental Health for entrepreneurs

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Their aim is to establish circular carbon economies in three hard-to-abate industries: container shipping, aviation and chemical production.

Prior to founding Carbon One, Christian has built, sold and IPO-ed multiple business.

First one, called iLove for his mentor ⁠Oliver Samwer⁠ where he built the business from scratch, up to Eur 25M Revenue while forgetting to get some equity in the business, ouch
The second one MyVideo, which was one of the leading video platforms back then in Germany and France that he sold to ProSieben
The third one was eDarling. They built a matchmaking business running 15 brands in 20 countries having revenue in 12 different currencies. They listed that on the New York stock exchange.
And the forth one ⁠nebenan.de⁠ the largest social network for neighbours in Germany with around 3m active users.

Such a hustler!

During this episode we discuss about his learnings in building multiple consumer businesses, the motivation to start Carbon One and the mental struggles that an entrepreneur is usually faced with and some suggestions on how to deal with it.

Enjoy!

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Their aim is to establish circular carbon economies in three hard-to-abate industries: container shipping, aviation and chemical production.

Prior to founding Carbon One, Christian has built, sold and IPO-ed multiple business.

First one, called iLove for his mentor ⁠Oliver Samwer⁠ where he built the business from scratch, up to Eur 25M Revenue while forgetting to get some equity in the business, ouch
The second one MyVideo, which was one of the leading video platforms back then in Germany and France that he sold to ProSieben
The third one was eDarling. They built a matchmaking business running 15 brands in 20 countries having revenue in 12 different currencies. They listed that on the New York stock exchange.
And the forth one ⁠nebenan.de⁠ the largest social network for neighbours in Germany with around 3m active users.

Such a hustler!

Enjoy!

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