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A dedicated post to introduce your brand to my audience.
Xaver Lehmann
CEO & Founder @ The Honest Founder Media Company
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Companies pay Xaver to write a post about their product on LinkedIn.
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€1,813per post, fixed price
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About Xaver Lehmann
2x AI Founder | $60M Exit | Now helping founders scale without burning out
Hi, I’m Xaver 👋 Over the last decade, I built and scaled AI startups from student projects into international companies with more than 130 employees and 5 European offices. Along the way, I raised millions from top-tier investors, spoke at the UN, made Forbes 30 Under 30, and sold one of my companies for $60 million to a NASDAQ company from the US. From the outside, it looked like success. Inside, I was struggling. Years of pressure, responsibility, and always chasing the next milestone eventually led to burnout. Around the same time, I lost my mother. It was a painful reminder that life is finite, and it forced me to step back and question everything I thought success was supposed to look like. Eventually, I booked a one-way ticket to South Africa. Surfed almost every day, worked on social projects, spent time with people who couldn’t care less about startup valuations, and slowly began figuring out what I wanted the next chapter of my life to look like. When I returned, I started writing about burnout, pressure, loneliness, identity and what happens after the exit. What began as a small newsletter has since grown into a community of 10,000+ newsletter subscribers and 35,000+ followers across Linkedin and Substack. Today, my mission is simple: to help ambitious founders build exceptional companies without losing themselves in the process: 🧠 Newsletter: Every Tuesday morning I share an unfiltered story about my journey. Subscribe here: https://xaverlehmann.substack.com/welcome 🎙️ Founder Community A community of 60+ founders and CEOs who have raised more than $200M and built over $50M ARR. Honest conversations, meaningful relationships, and monthly live founder sessions. Apply here: https://xaverlehmann.com/communityfounders 🎯 1:1 Coaching: I help founders scale without sacrificing their health, clarity, and long-term well-being through coaching. Learn more here: https://xaverlehmann.com/coaching 📣 Sponsorships: You can use my reach and promote your brand to all my 40k followers and subscribers. Average post reach: 30,000+ impressions and up to 500 website leads: https://passionfroot.me/xaver-lehmann I also invest in early-stage startups and venture & PE funds. Investments include Fonio.AI (€100M valuation), Peec.AI (€100M valuation), 1komma5° (€1B valuation), MMI (€1B valuation). Beyond business, I support causes close to my heart. Wildlife conservation in South Africa through AMES, and early childhood education in a Cape Town community through handsandfeet. More here: www.xaverlehmann.com.
Growth / GTMAgencies / ConsultingMedia / Content
My LinkedIn audience
- Followers
- 39,536
- Est. median reach
- 3.2K
- Reactions per post
- 35
- Median of recent posts
My most engaged audience
81% Founder / C-level · 16% Marketing
From 684 people who reacted to or commented on my posts
Public LinkedIn data · Sep 17, 2026
Recent posts
All posts on LinkedInXaver Lehmann
If your company needs you for every important decision, it feels like leadership. ⠀ It’s not. ⠀ It means you failed to build a company that can operate without you. ⠀ I learned this way too late. ⠀ At e-bot7, we grew to 130+ people and eventually sold the company for $60m. ⠀ And for a long time, I was involved in almost everything. ⠀ Important customer? I wanted to know. ⠀ Big hire? I wanted to meet them. ⠀ Problem? I wanted to help solve it. ⠀ Decision? I wanted to be part of it. ⠀ I told myself this was because I cared. ⠀ And partly, it was. ⠀ But I had also made myself the bottleneck. ⠀ The more decisions I made, the more people waited for me to make decisions. The more problems I solved, the more problems came back to me. The more involved I became, the harder it became for the company to operate without me. ⠀ That’s the strange part about being a founder: ⠀ The things that make you successful in the beginning can become exactly the things holding the company back later. ⠀ Being everywhere works at 10 people. At 50, it becomes a problem. At 100+, it can become a disaster. ⠀ I used to think leadership meant having the answers. ⠀ Today I think it’s much more about building a company that doesn’t constantly need yours. ⠀ What’s one thing you’re still doing as a founder that someone else should probably own by now? I write about lessons like this every week in The Honest Founder: the things I wish someone had told me while I was building my first company: https://lnkd.in/dmEYTw6B
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I became an entrepreneur because I wanted freedom. ⠀ Then I spent years building a life with less freedom than most employees. ⠀ No weekends. No switching off. No holidays without checking Slack. No evening where my brain wasn’t still somewhere at work. ⠀ And the strange thing is: I thought I was free. ⠀ But when 100+ people, investors, customers and millions in revenue depend on you, you don’t need a boss anymore. ⠀ You’ve built your own prison. ⠀ I realized something I probably should have understood much earlier: ⠀ Freedom isn’t having enough money to never work again. It’s being able to decide what you want to do on a random Tuesday. ⠀ - Going for a walk without feeling guilty. - Leaving your phone at home. - Taking a week off without everything falling apart. - Having dinner without thinking about work. - Being somewhere without wanting to be somewhere else. ⠀ Those things sound small. ⠀ But today, I think they are the whole point. ⠀ Don’t spend 10 years sacrificing your freedom in the hope that one day you’ll finally earn it. ⠀ Build some of it into your life now. ⠀ What does freedom actually mean to you? ⠀ I write about lessons like this every week in The Honest Founder, mostly things I wish I had understood earlier. You can join here: https://lnkd.in/dmEYTw6B
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Companies rarely become complicated overnight. It happens one tool at a time. (Advertisement) One for banking. Another for invoices. Another for expenses. Then DATEV. It gets messy pretty quickly. I’ve been using Qonto for a while now, and what I like most is simply having more of this in one place. I can see what’s happening with the company’s money, send invoices, manage cards and keep expenses connected to the right receipts. All from the same app. None of these things sounds revolutionary on its own. But not having to constantly switch between platforms, move information around or figure out where something lives makes a real difference. That’s ultimately what I want from a business account: a clear overview and fewer small tasks slowing me down. Qonto also connects with more than 2,000 tools (including DATEV and Lexware Office), so you can keep the parts of your existing setup that already work. If you’re starting a company, or your current financial setup has become more complicated than it needs to be, it’s worth taking a look. The account can be opened online in just 10 minutes, and with the code HonestFounder6M you can now test it 6 months for free (only for new customers). Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eNXs7Nrm How many different tools are you currently using to run your company’s finances? #Qonto #businessaccount #founders #finance
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Based on 684 people who reacted to or commented on my posts. Percentages use the profiles that could be classified.
Based on 684 people who reacted to or commented on my posts. Percentages use the profiles that could be classified.
Based on 684 people who reacted to or commented on my posts. Percentages use the profiles that could be classified.
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Xaver Lehmann is a B2B LinkedIn creator based in Germany with 39,536 followers, posting about Growth / GTM, Agencies / Consulting, and Media / Content. On Naano, one sponsored LinkedIn post by Xaver Lehmann costs €1,813, a fixed price per post.
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