On Building AI Companies (Seedtable, August 2020)

Gonz Sanchez interviewed me for his podcast. We spoke about TwentyBN’s origin story, the playbook for building deep tech startups, and much more. You can listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Chip War: Warum die Halbleiterindustrie im Zentrum der Weltpolitik steht (1E9, April 2023)

The online magazine 1E9 has published a German translation of my essay “In the Trenches of the Chip War” (1E9 is the successor of Wired Germany).

Der erste Elon Musk: Die unglaubliche Geschichte der Raketenfirma OTRAG (1E9, December 2020)

The online magazine 1E9 has published a German translation of my essay “The German Elon of the 70s” (1E9 is the successor of Wired Germany).

Why a Microsoft-backed AI startup pivoted to a fitness app (CNBC, August 2020)

Sam Shead, who covers European tech and AI for CNBC, interviewed me for our product launch. We spoke about our pivot from AI developer tools to consumer apps.

This man is the godfather the AI community wants to forget (Bloomberg, May 2018)

On a recent trip to the Bay Area, I sat down with Ashlee Vance to discuss the state of the AI industry. Some of my observations made it into this article.

Germany’s conservative economic model is being put to the test (Economist, April 2018)

My essay “Germany asleep at the wheel” was quoted in a Special Report that examines how innovation in AI is putting pressure on Germany’s industrial model.