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20 years turning impossible ideas into products, companies, and ecosystems — across four countries, three continents, and one relentless question: does it actually work?
Two kids, one wife I'm still crazy about. This comes first. Always will.
12 consumer products at Vulpine Creations — designed, prototyped, and shipped worldwide. 4.9-star average rating. Zero returns. Plus industrial automation systems and innovation consulting ventures across 20+ years of product development.
Scaled an international innovation ecosystem across four locations including San Francisco. Led engineering teams delivering significant recurring revenue. Designed and delivered hundreds of automation systems across my career.
Co-founded Austria's youngest startup accelerator. 30+ portfolio startups. €10.7M in total portfolio capitalisation. Put an entire region on the startup map.
Every talk is built like a product: tested, refined, stripped to the essential. No theory without proof. No slide without a story behind it.
30+ startups mentored at Startup Burgenland. University lecturer. World Bank consultant. The kind of advisor who has built what he teaches.
It started with an electrical engineering degree and a question that wouldn't leave him alone: why do most innovations die before anyone experiences them? He designed industrial automations that generated hundreds of millions in revenue. He spearheaded engineering projects worth 20+ in revenue. He opened a tattoo studio. He earned a Master's in Innovation Management. He crossed four countries and three continents looking for the answer.
He found part of it at 360 Innovation Lab, which he scaled to offices in Graz, Warsaw, and San Francisco — a makerspace, a code lab, and an accelerator that attracted three thousand applications. He spearheaded ventures with significant commercial traction within 24 months. Then the pandemic hit, and everything stopped. Except him.
In 2021, he co-founded StartUp Burgenland — building a startup ecosystem from zero in Austria's most underserved region. Over four years: 30+ portfolio startups, €10.7M in total portfolio capitalisation, a 48% founder relocation rate. In the last three years, more startups were founded in Burgenland than in the entire decade before. He didn't just run a programme — he put an entire region on the map.
Somewhere along the way — a hotel room, 2 a.m., a deck of cards — he stumbled into a 5,000-year-old discipline built on a single, ruthless principle: the only thing that matters is the audience's experience. Not the method. Not the cleverness. Not the ego. Just one question: did it work?
That obsession became a company. During a global pandemic — while the rest of the world paused — he and his partner Adam Wilber built Vulpine Creations into a globally recognised consumer product company. 12 original products, each tested thousands of times before release. A 4.9-star rating. Zero returns. Tens of thousands of units shipped worldwide. The world's foremost collector in their niche called one of their products "the most versatile set ever experienced." They sold the company in 2024.
That discipline — question everything, build what works, subtract until only the essential remains — became the throughline of his entire career. It's how he builds products, companies, accelerators, and keynotes. Strip away everything that doesn't serve the experience. What's left is what matters.
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What I Believe
The audience's experience is the only thing that matters.
The right method is the one that works.
Every "impossible" is a constraint you haven't designed around yet.
The perfect system is one where you can take everything away.
People don't choose the best option. They choose the one they know — and that should terrify you.
Experience is the thing you get after you need it.
There's no such thing as passive income.
Give the knowledge for free. Sell the implementation.
I build my reputation on results, not promises.
"Most people choose between building things and understanding people. Felix figured out they're the same skill."
What's Next
If you're building something that matters and need someone who's done it before — not someone who's read about it — let's talk.