Ibo Atli
I love to build interesting and non-obvious products, code, and have fun at it (curiosity and fun are my superpowers)
A little bit about me- Grew up in Southern Germany and got my first computer at age 10 (best day ever)
- Went to a school nobody will ever know and studied something that only exists in Germany
- Started my career at the biggest German retail conglomerate and my life went zig-zag from there
- Worked and lived in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and now I live in the greatest city on the planet, NYC
- Currently: Manager building a very small and nimble AI Product Building team at the forefront of Capgemini Invent
- Sold $1.5B as a Manager on the Strategic Deals team
- Junior Consultant (in-house) at Lidl / Schwarz
- Built nimbic, PERM Insights, instamp, job thriller, and the world's first linkedin widget for iOS
- Nothing is impossible, everything is solvable with technology
- Range and depth across multiple disciplines matter; blending them makes you stand out
- It's the greatest time ever to build something meaningful (and it's only getting better); have the agency to just do it
- The best things that ever happened to me happened because I just did them, despite all odds stacked against me
- My best ideas have been non-obvious, sounded crazy and unrealistic to people; I still jumped on them and will continue to do so
- Moving fast and shipping quickly, you can reverse most decisions; velocity > perfectionism
- Most problems that prevent you from shipping are made up and if they become problems you did something right
- Persistence pays off
- Very small and nimble teams; you don't need a lot of people to get awesome things done; often less is more
- The Boosted Board is the greatest way to commute in NYC