Robbert van Geldrop

Robbert is an entrepreneur and software developer, who wrote his first lines of codes on an Atari ST when he was 8 years old. He founded his first company at the age of 19. Today Robbert is an investor and board member of several SaaS startups in the Netherlands. He’s the Director of Product at Builders, a startup studio from Rotterdam.

Robbert also founded the first Lean Startup Circle meetup group in continental Europe in an effort to create closer ties with other entrepreneurs facing the tough challenges of building a business. As such he became one of the first mentors and advisors at several well-known Dutch incubation and acceleration programs such as Rockstart, YES!Delft, Antler and Utrecht Inc. He coached hundreds of other founders of tech startups in the past decade and has developed entrepreneurship workshops from scratch which many of these programs across Europe still use today.

Robbert believes that entrepreneurship is not a talent one is born with, but a craft which you can learn by knowing all the available tools and skills which are available. You can master the craft by doing and trying it with the right mindset. Robbert’s workshops are highly actionable as he prefers ‘learning by doing’ methods in his workshops and courses. This is one of his traits as a software developer and engineer.