Why we're building sprintd

The line that stuck with me

At one of our hackathons, someone came up to me and said: at this event, I met my co-founder. Then someone else told me they had closed funding. Another had co-founded a company. A few said the weekend changed how they think entirely.

I didn't go looking for any of it. People just came up and told me. And that is only the feedback that surfaced. Most of it I will never hear about.

Why I keep doing this

That is the reason I am building sprintd. It is honestly not the most profitable thing I could be doing. But it is the most aligned with what I care about: enabling people. There is something really good about building your own thing and watching it open doors for everyone around you.

I wrote one line down once and it stuck: create opportunities for people who will go on to create opportunities for others.

The loop

That is the whole loop. People build, people connect, people give back, and it compounds. We even made it our slogan: we enable people to drive innovation.

Across five hackathons I have organized, I have worked with roughly a thousand builders. The stories above are not rare. They are what happens when you put driven people in a room with a real problem and the tools to solve it.

What's next

sprintd is how I am turning that from a series of one-off weekends into something that runs on purpose. The next chapter starts in Zurich this October. If you want to be part of it, join the waitlist.