Dominik Nitsch

Entrepreneur, Athlete, & Writer

I’m Dominik, self-proclaimed “Venture Athlete”. This is my story:

For the last 7 years, I helped bootstrap one startup from 0 to 1M in revenue and built the international business from scratch for one of Europe’s fastest growing EdTech companies (50 -> 240 employees in my three years there).

All while competing at the highest level of the beautiful sport of Lacrosse, including an appearance for the German National Team at the 2022 World Games (the Olympics’ little brother).

While my professional achievements may seem more impressive on paper, representing Germany on an international stage is the feat that I’m most proud of.

I wasn’t very athletic up until my mid-twenties. Very little talent, but a lot of injuries to make up for it.

Until one day, I started working with a personal trainer. He helped me break down the fundamentals I needed to fix.

I worked hard, and I worked consistently. Showed up to every practice, every gym session. Did my recovery & mobility work daily.
4 years later, I made the roster.

The potential was in me. But it needed help unlocking.

Throughout my entire career, I’ve also helped humans unlock their potential, just in different ways:
- By teaching people in rural Rwanda and Brazilian homeless shelter how to make glasses for less than $1, and how to build a business around it
- By bringing unemployed nurses from Italy to Germany and teaching them German, opening a completely different career path for them
- By expanding the leading operating system for schools throughout Europe, so that education becomes more digital and thus accessible
- By writing about my experiences online and sharing them with the world

In late 2023, I made the decision to quit my cozy, well-paid, full-time job that fit my profile perfectly.

My mission is to build a company that creates companies to empower humans to unlock their potential. Just like my personal trainer did for me.

Today:
-> more than 2M glasses have been sold to people in Rwanda & Brazil who previously couldn’t have afforded any
-> more than 350 nurses have a career in Germany that previously lived with their parents, wasting their talents away
-> ~50 more ICU beds were available during the COVID pandemic in Germany
-> 13,000 schools now use state-of-the-art digital tools
-> hundreds of world-class humans read my newsletter

Doing all this required precise time management, relentless execution, and strong discipline.

If you want to learn more about how I did this, you should check out my newsletter and/or follow me here on LinkedIn.
And if you want to learn how to build a portfolio of cashflow positive businesses to fulfil said mission, you should do the same.

I wish that some of the best portfolio company owners turned creators had documented their journey from day 1, and not retrospectively.
So that’s what I’m doing.

I write for, what I call, aspiring “Venture Athletes”: mid-20s/early 30s, work in startups, want to live an exceptional life, by applying logic from sports & business to life.

Unlocking your potential on your own is hard.
Let’s do it together.

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