Engineer · Investor · Endurance athlete

Find comfort in discomfort.

I build and fund hard tech: AI research at OpenAI, quantum computing at Rigetti, software at Palantir, CTO of nyonic, ML research at Merantix, and now investing at SPRIND and as an angel. Long-distance endurance sport takes up the rest of my week. Both teach the same lesson: the real risk sits where it gets uncomfortable. That's where I work with founders and investors.

Johannes Otterbach at the highest point of the Jánošík run leg on top of Veľký Rozsutec
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