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Nov 14, 2022 · At the start, Blinkist stirred up little investor interest. The app was repeatedly refused funding, nobody believed in the idea, and back in 2012, apps weren’t as popular as they are today. Although they had little money, the small team of four quit their full-time jobs and worked tirelessly on their app. After months and months of burning ...
Total assets. US$35 million (2018) [1] Website. www.blinkist.com. Blinkist is a book-summarizing subscription service based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 2012 by Holger Seim, Niklas Jansen, Sebastian Klein, and Tobias Balling and has 23 million downloads as of 2023. [2]
Jan 7, 2022 · – Holger Seim, Blinkist co-founder The idea was sparked when Sebastian Klein, one of Blinkist’s founders, noticed that full-time work left no time for reading. He and three friends thought of ways this could be fixed—they knew they couldn’t speed themselves up, but they thought about ways they could speed up the reading process itself.
May 13, 2022 · Founded in 2012, the Blinkist app was created by Holger Seim, Sebastian Klein, Niklas Jansen, and Tobi Balling out of their love for reading. Since then, it has been named by both Apple and Google as one of the best apps in the world, made countless headlines in The New York Times, The Guardian, and TechCrunch, and praised by the likes of Tim Cook (Apple’s CEO) for its noble mission.
Jun 20, 2018 · Blinkist has raised $35 million to date. Holger Seim, the company’s co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch that the funding will be used to continue to expand the product. That will include ...
Learn how Holger Seim grew his knowledge product through growth hacking whilst building an innovative work culture through Holacracy. Find the first part of ...
Oct 28, 2019 · Insight's Growth Gurus series showcases inspiring leaders from our portfolio of growth-stage software and internet companies. In this interview, Onsite talks to Holger Seim, Founder and CEO of Blinkist, a mobile app that distills the key insights of 2,000+ bestselling nonfiction books into powerful 15-minute snippets to read or listen to on a mobile device.
