About Me

Hi, I'm Dominik 🤝

I'm a career generalist: doing too many things for my own good.

I spend my days hanging out at my desk, in the gym, on the Lacrosse field, or at the bar. Cities vary, mostly Berlin.

A snapshot of my life:

Founder of Generalyst, a recruitment platform for generalists looking to work in early-stage tech startups in Germany.
International Expansion consultant for startups, where I help Series A tech companies expand in Europe
Lacrosse player in Germany's first division, the Czech national league, and at times for the German Men's National team
Previously, Co-Founder of a small bootstrapped impact company called Linguedo
Writer of a pretty cool newsletter and future book author (coming soon!)
Airport & Train nerd
Connoisseur of freshly poured draft beers, particularly Czech pilsners from the tank

Companies I've worked with or for:

This is my story:

[1] The Past

For the first 7 years of my career, 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, 7 markets opened, a few companies acquired).

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 national team 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 helping other generalist find the right career path for themselves
By writing about my experiences online and sharing them with the world

Today:

More than 1,500 world-class humans read my newsletter
25,000 schools now use state-of-the-art digital tools
~50 more ICU beds were available during the COVID pandemic in Germany
more than 400 nurses have a career in Germany that previously lived with their parents, wasting their talents away
more than 200k glasses have been sold to people in Rwanda & Brazil who previously couldn’t have afforded any

My mission is to build companies that empower humans to unlock their potential.

Just like my personal trainer did for me.

[2] The Present & Future

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

I quit when the fit stopped existing: I was asked to specialize in one thing. Which kind of rubbed me the wrong way.

Like many generalists, I like variety. A lot of it. So much, in fact, that it's really difficult to get that in just one job (except for when they encompass a lot of disciplines, like running international expansion).

I had found a new calling: making a career as generalist in a specialized economy. So I took a sabbatical, created an online course, started writing a book, and eventually, founded Generalyst in November 2024.

This company is the first step in building a portfolio of cashflow-positive, impact-driven businesses – all while still pursing athletic excellence, writing daily, and living a generally good life.

Doing all this isn't easy. It requires precise time management, relentless execution, and strong discipline. As well as figuring out your calling, and finding ways to make it work financially.

This is what I write about on my newsletter, broken down into five categories:

Identifying the right career for yourself: whether that's finding a single job, building a portfolio career, or a complete pivot.
Tactical advice on finding jobs: not having a job is an absolute hair-on-fire problem. I deal with it daily, and share the best practices around it.
Time & Productivity Management: time is the most valuable asset we have. Let’s use it to the most.
Entrepreneurship: inside stories from my work at Generalyst, bootstrapping a company to >1M in revenue.
Systems: consistency is key to achieving any goal. Systems help to maintain that consistency.

Occasionally, I'll sprinkle in some stories from my life as an athlete.

I wish that some of the best portfolio company owners turned creators turned athletes had documented their journey from day 1, and not retrospectively.

So that’s what I’m doing.

I write for ambitious amateurs and jacks-of-all-trades like myself, who want to make a living in a specialized economy without specializing themselves.

You can do more than one thing in your life.

Let’s design that life together.

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