Hi, I'm Jakob!

I'm on quest to explore the opportunities and challenges of permissionless entrepreneurship.

• I'm building humble, profit-focused online businesses like Enrich My List and Newsletter Spy.
• I'm sending imaginary investor reports. (The investors are imaginary, the reports are not.)
• I'm teaching to learn and experiment with different micro course formats.
• I'm building in public on Twitter.
• I spend 10+ hours every week researching how the smartest founders succeed and write about all the patterns and winning strategies I uncover in the Founder Flywheel newsletter.

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