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Lars Hinrichs

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Lars Hinrichs (born 18 December 1976, Hamburg, Germany) is a German entrepreneur and investor. Hinrichs is best known as the founder of XING, a Germany focused, but worldwide available, social networkingwebsite dedicated mostly to cultivating business contacts.

Career

One of his first ventures, politik-digital.de, was an award-winning [1] platform for politics and new media, which he launched at the age of 22. The company has since evolved into a consultancy for politics, with headquarters in Berlin.

In 2003 Hinrichs founded the Open Business Club GmbH, today XING AG, where both business people and students or job seekers manage their contacts. He took XING public in December 2006 and led the company to a profitable business with annual sales of €35 million and an EBITDA margin of 35%.[2] On 15 January 2009 he resigned from his function as CEO and joined the board of directors. Later in November 2009 Lars Hinrichs sold his stake in XING to Hubert Burda Media.[3] Accordingly, he gave up his board membership at XING in January 2010.[4]

In 2010 he founded HackFwd, a pre-seed investment company that supported European "geeks" investing in prototypes or demos for a fixed timeframe of 12 months. The company was shut down December 2013 due to its inability to sell any single share of the 16 companies they invested in.

Lars supports entrepreneurship and Internet policy on a local, national and European level, and has for example held several meetings with the German chancellor Angela Merkel [5] and with Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission.[6] He is serving on the supervisory board of Deutsche Telekom AG.

The Apartimentum, a housing project in Hamburg-Rotherbaum, is Hinrichs latest project. It deals with living in the future while focusing on the special needs of expats.[7]

Hinrichs is an active member of the Young Global Leaders (YGL) of the World Economic Forum and the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).

Personal life

Hinrichs lives in Hamburg, Germany, and has two children, aged 13 and 11.

Awards

En 2007, Lars Hinrichs recibió el premio LeadAward de los medios de comunicación [ 8 ] y el premio alemán de Internet de 2004 [ 9 ] del Ministerio Federal de Economía. En agosto de 2008, fue elegido el emprendedor web más importante de Alemania por la Startups Initiative. [ 10 ]

Referencias

  1. ↑ Premios Politik-Digital.de Archivado el 9 de diciembre de 2018 en Wayback Machine Recuperado el 14 de febrero de 2014
  2. ↑ "Erfolgreicher mit XING" (PDF) . xing.com . Consultado el 17 de agosto de 2012 .
  3. ↑ Comunicado de prensa de XING AG (18/11/2009) Archivado el 21/02/2014 en Wayback Machine. Consultado el 14/02/2014.
  4. ↑ Comunicado de prensa de XING AG (22/01/2010) Archivado el 21/02/2014 en Wayback Machine. Consultado el 14/02/2014.
  5. ↑ Internet y startups en Alemania (07/03/2013) TechCrunch. Consultado el 14/02/2014.
  6. ↑ Manifiesto de Start-Up Europe. Consultado el 14 de febrero de 2014.
  7. ^ "Smart Home: Wie wir in Zukunft leben werden | HuffPost Deutschland" Archivado el 17 de enero de 2019 en Wayback Machine. Consultado el 7 de junio de 2021, "Smart Home Haussteuerung und Homedesign - Gastbeitrag von Lars Hinrichs - Smart Home, Entertainment, Wearables - mydls.de" Archivado el 10 de agosto de 2016 en la Wayback Machine Consultado el 7 de junio de 2021.
  8. ↑ "Premio Lead" . Leadacademy.de . Consultado el 26 de julio de 2012 .
  9. ↑ Comunicado de prensa del Open Business Club (12/11/2004) Archivado el 21/02/2014 en Wayback Machine. Consultado el 14/02/2014.
  10. ↑ Deutsche Startups (04/08/2008) Consultado el 14/02/2014
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