Investor Brandis raves
Marvel Fusion is “incredibly fascinating”
December 6, 2023, 8:58 a.m
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As an investor, Hendrik Brandis sits on many startup boards. As an engineer, he is particularly excited by new technologies such as nuclear fusion, he says in the new episode of “So techt Deutschland”.
As an investor, Hendrik Brandis sits on many startup boards. He assesses the recent turbulence at OpenAI surrounding the expulsion of founder and CEO Sam Altman almost diplomatically: “If the board kicked out the figurehead, the founder and visionary of the company without consulting the 49 percent shareholder, I would call it courageous.”
Hendrik Brandis has been investing in startups for a quarter of a century.
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Words that show how difficult it is sometimes to maintain balance in startups. Especially when it comes to critical decisions that can affect the fate of the company. Brandis has been an active investor with his company Earlybird for 26 years and has invested in startups at an early stage. As an engineer, he is particularly enthusiastic about new technologies.
Brandis becomes particularly passionate when it comes to startups like Marvel Fusion that are working on nuclear fusion. “When I first looked at a concept from Marvel Fusion, where incredible physicists with a European Nobel Prize winner on board wanted to turn nuclear fusion on its head, I found it incredibly fascinating,” says Brandis on the ntv podcast “So techt Germany”.
Brandis sees such projects as his professional challenge and personal fulfillment. There is also a trend emerging in Germany that goes beyond pure business model innovations and “shifts into actually deep technology innovations,” explains Brandis. Hendrik Brandis explains in the new episode of “So techt Deutschland” why the range of new technologies available today is “on a different planet” compared to when it started 26 years ago.
In “So techt Deutschland” the ntv presenters Frauke Holzmeier and Andreas Laukat ask founders, investors, politicians and entrepreneurs about the state of Germany as a technology location.
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