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Meet Michael, Founder & Managing Director at Builders
Michael van Lier is a MD and founded Builders in 2015. His specialities include fundraising, venture building and product strategy.
Michael is an entrepreneur, innovator, and tech evangelist dedicated to empowering the next wave of tech entrepreneurship. He has been founding tech companies for two decades. Michael started his first online company in 2000, at 16 years old. Later, he founded and exited multiple software and cloud-oriented companies which he grew by acquisition and organic growth. Michael spent his career at the intersection of cloud hosting, tech startups, software consulting, and early-stage investing.
THoughts
February 20, 2025
The Math and Beyond: Building a Stellar Startup Studio 📐 🚀
If you’ve been following along, you know we’ve been peeling back the layers of what it really takes to build a sustainable startup studio.
January 7, 2025
Builders Recap #6 - Building the platform
We spent 2024 redefining the future of work through cutting-edge technology, empowering startups with innovative strategies, fostering CTO residencies, and launching impactful companies focused on intelligent, agent-driven solutions.
August 30, 2024
Will the real CTO please stand up!
As code automation grows, some question the need for hands-on engineers, but I’m all in on the idea that we need strong engineering minds more than ever to tackle the big, hard problems.