Dipl.-Ing. Lars Behrendt

//CEO@GRANNY&SMITH, DE-RISKING INNOLAB FOR THE MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES

I’m an inventor, innovator and investor. I turn real problems into real companies.My career changed the moment I realized most innovations fail for the same reason: everyone talks about ideas - almost no one builds them.In boardrooms and workshops, I watched brilliant concepts suffocate under politics, process and PowerPoints. The spark in people’s eyes faded the moment reality entered the room. I couldn’t unsee it.So I stopped helping people discuss the future and started building it.Over the past 15 years, I’ve created products, ventures and business models that didn’t exist before. What began as engineering evolved into a practice: recognizing real unmet needs, inventing the solution and forming a company around it.Today, I operate where invention, innovation and investment meet. I don’t manage portfolios — I create the companies they’re built from.How I work: • real-world problems • physical + digital products • validated demand • scalable models • long-term ownershipWhat drives me: If you can see a better future, you’re responsible for building it. I work with people who believe progress comes from creating, not talking — and who want to bring things into the world that should already exist.That’s why I build.More: grannyandsmith.com

We are here to help you develop, test, and grow new business ideas in a few weeks instead of months. We specialize in innovation development, constantly keeping up with the latest trends, methods, and ways of working.

We have been developing innovation for our customers for more than 15 years now. Our teams, consisting of designers, engineers, software developers, and business model experts, have tried a lot and gained much experience. Today we know what works and what does not - so you don't have to make all those experiences again.

Our INNOWEEK® method is the result of more than 15 years of continuous development and project experience with well-known DAX groups and Fortune 500 companies and helps you to develop, test, and grow new business ideas in a few weeks instead of months.

HERE IS MY APPROACH TO INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT

The difference between bringing your product to market in theory?

VS

Bringing your product to market in practice?

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In "the theoretical" way, you tried to be perfectly prepared and get hit by the market, and it´s over.

In "the practice way", you are learning step by step. (Like small hits that won't knock you out)

In "the practice way", you get feedback from the market and learn to iterate.

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After +15 years in the innovation business, I will never go "the theoretical way" anymore. 

It just hurts too much ;-)

You get that one hi,t and it's over.

It´s your choice.

#innovation

Dipl Ing Lars Behrendt 

INVENTOR · INNOVATOR · INVESTOR - Building Companies. Not Slide Decks. We build and scale industrial ventures. At own risk.

YOU FEEL TIRED?

If you are feeling tired in your life...

...then you should take a good look at this video*!

Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. 

_You got a dream? 
_You gotta protect it. 
_You want something, go get it

P.S.
*Actually, this movie is based on a true story by Chris Gardner
He is also here on Linkedin

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This is how we bring your ideas to market in 2025:
https://lnkd.in/dexsVrw8

#innovation

THE FOUNDER OF NETFLIX LITERALLY DROPPED HIS BEST BUSINESS ADVICE IN UNDER A MINUTE 🔥

The most valuable business advice I've heard in years 💡

Netflix's founder just dropped this truth bomb that every entrepreneur needs to hear:

"Nobody knows anything when it comes to new ideas. I've started seven companies, including Netflix, and I promise you - I could never have predicted which would succeed and which would fail on day one."

His solution? Stop overthinking and START DOING.
→ Take the risk → Build something
→ Test something → Try something

Because here's the reality: 
You learn more in one hour of action than in three months of planning.

This hits different when you realize Netflix was just one of his seven attempts. 

Imagine if he'd stopped at attempt #6 because he was afraid of failure.

The companies that win aren't the ones with perfect plans - they're the ones brave enough to test their imperfect ideas in the real world.

What's one idea you've been overthinking that you could test this week?

P.S.
This is exactly the approach we are taking with our startup studio and family office. Reach out if you're interested in collaborating to build startups systematically.  

#innovation #vc #familyoffice

Product & Business Leader | Scaling Growth & Digital Transformation | Ex-Pro Athlete Applying Sports Principles to Drive Business Excellence | Leadership & Peak Performance Advocate

Product Manager with 8+ years building AI/ML, digital and SaaS products from 0→1, and scaling product and teams from 1→10, with proven ability to scale operations 1000%+ while maintaining lean teams. Track record includes $600K ARR recovery in 30 days, scaling from 0 to $7MM revenue with 3-person ops team, and driving $30MM+ enterprise impact.

Specializing in product-led growth, operational excellence, and AI-powered solutions for health tech, B2B SaaS, and Utilities Industry.

Known for systems thinking, collaborative leadership, and high-velocity execution. I bring customer obsession to every product decision, with proven platform thinking that scales from startup to enterprise.

Currently: Building AI-powered health and longevity products to gain hands on experience with Agentic products.

Let's connect - I specialize in making the impossible look inevitable.

Robin Ayme

OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Health.

I'm building a voice AI health companion in the longevity space.

My first reaction? A pit in my stomach.

Then I read the announcement. And I'm now genuinely excited.

This is exactly what power users have been doing for 2 years. Connect WHOOP. Upload labs. Ask questions.

OpenAI just productized it for 230 million weekly health queries.

What ChatGPT Health is today:
→ Connect Apple Health, wearables, medical records
→ Ask questions, get personalized answers
→ Encrypted and isolated from other chats

What it's not (yet):
→ Proactive
→ Behavior change focused
→ Designed to ask YOU the right questions

Most people don't know what to ask about their health.

They don't think "my HRV dropped 15%, what should I change?"

They just feel tired. Or off. Or stuck.

Right now, ChatGPT Health is a brilliant encyclopedia you query.

But here's where I think this is heading:

Pulse.

OpenAI's daily briefing feature is the unlock. Imagine waking up to:

"Your sleep dropped 20% this week. You have a high-stakes meeting Thursday. Here's a wind-down protocol for tonight and a gym session to optimize your HRV before then."

That's not Q&A. That's proactive health coaching.

The shift from "ask me anything" to "here's what you need to know today" changes everything.

And the ChatGPT App layer is about to explode.

Remember when Apple Health launched and thousands of apps got built on top? Same opportunity here.

ChatGPT Health becomes infrastructure.
Vertical apps get built for longevity protocols, metabolic coaching, post-surgery recovery, sport-specific performance.

The real unlock? When this connects outward. Not just insights but actions - gym classes booked, clinic appointments scheduled based on your DEXA trends.

Who this validates:
Function Health (literally a launch partner), the $10B+ longevity market, niche B2B plays, behavior change platforms.

Who should be nervous:
Generic symptom checkers. "Upload labs, get interpretation" apps. Superpower and InsideTracker will need to double down on what makes them different. The commodity layer just got commoditized.

The honest risks:
AI hallucinations in health advice are real. Privacy concerns aren't going away - even if a strong effort has been done here in terms of separation of concerns. 
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD highlighted it nicely. 

But the upside for underserved users who can't afford concierge medicine? Massive.

What this changes for me:
Not much, honestly. or at least I don't know yet. 
I think it’s hard to compete against OpenAI. There is still a spot for niches (think HYBRD or Noom)

Data plus AI was always just foundation. The hard part is the last mile - getting someone to actually change.

OpenAI just built the infrastructure. And that's exciting

https://lnkd.in/dtkQ22J2

Building AI Health & Longevity Products | Cross-functional Leader | 0→1 + Scale Expert | Ex-Pro-Athlete

The PM/engineer line is blurring

Every day a new AI coding tool or update drops. PMs are shipping features themselves. Engineers are making product calls in the prompt.

Everyone becomes 10x more efficient - that's exciting. 

The walls are coming down.

But here's what's actually happening: the skills are merging, not disappearing. PMs who understand architecture and design patterns make better decisions. Engineers who think in user problems and added value write better code.

The tools just accelerated what was always true: the best builders do both.
Hum hum (Entrepreneurs). 

What you can't skip: the fundamentals. Database structure. System constraints. The scars from real production systems and 100s of customer interviews. These aren't technical trivia. They're judgment.

Using Claude Code is the same skill as leading a dev team. You need to know when the output is wrong. You need context. You need taste.

You can't replace customer interviews by asking chatGPT what to build. 

I've spent the last two years getting back to technical roots while keeping the product eye. Building something at the intersection of what I know and what I care about. Best decision I made to stay updated (even if every 2 weeks I feel behind). 

The future isn't PMs replacing engineers or engineers ignoring product. It's both roles converging into something new.

The question isn't which side you're on. It's whether you're building the full stack of skills.

Your body is a prediction machine that's stuck in the past.

We don't diagnose disease until symptoms show up.

By then, the damage is already done.

The human brain can't process 50,000 research papers. Your doctor can't hold years of biomarkers in memory and spot the pattern. So we wait. We react. We lose.

But what if we didn't have to?

ChatGPT and Claude just added health connections. OpenAI acquired health data infrastructure. Everyone's moving in at once.

Here's what's actually happening.

We're building a continuous observer for your body.

Feed an AI system your DNA, your biomarkers over time, wearables data, sensors. Let it run. It doesn't get tired. Doesn't forget. Doesn't need to read thousands of papers.

It sees the pattern before the disease does.

It surfaces signals that come months or maybe years before you feel sick. It catches the drift before it becomes irreversible.

You stop treating disease.

You start treating probability.

This is why the labs are moving so fast.

This isn't about optimization. It's about flipping medicine on its head. From reactive to predictive. From treating what's broken to catching what's breaking.

The future of health isn't in the hospital. It's in the constant flow of data through a system that actually understands what's shifting.

The question isn't whether AI will transform healthcare.

The question is: what happens to the old system when it does?

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