Building and Exiting a Multi-Million Dollar Business - My Lessons Learned | Bruno Lowagie | Entrepreneurship [006] (EN)

Many people dream of starting their own business. Not that many people do it. And few people... manage to build a multi-million dollar business.Bruno Lowagie (55) is one of the few who achieved this. As the original developer of iText, an open-source PDF library, he built a multi-million dollar business alongside his wife, growing it from a startup to a successful exit.Bruno is also co-founder of the Wintercircus in Ghent and an author of both fiction and non-fiction books. This 6th episode in English marks the start of a new theme we will explore in several episodes: Entrepreneurship.🔎 What will you discover in this rollercoaster episode?✅ Bruno's top entrepreneurial lessons ✅ What he would change if he were running Belgium  ✅ His "superpower"✅ His ambitions for the future*Books and Hub Referenced:- Lowagie, B. (2025). Onvoltooid toekomstige tijd.- Lowagie, B. (2024). Entreprenerd. Building a Multi-Million-Dollar Business with Open Source Software. - Thoreau, H.D. (originally published in 1854). Walden: or, Life in the Woods.- Wasserman, N. (2013). The Founder's Dilemmas.- Wintercircus: https://www.wintercircus.be/en*Support the podcast:- If you enjoy Choose Work, you can support it with a small voluntarycontribution (even the price of a coffee) via Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/choosework*Contact Bruno Lowagie:- Website: https://lowagie.com/- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blowagie/ *Contact Heidi - Leadership Coach • Expert inGiftedness • Mindfulness Teacher:- Book your free discovery call here (EN/NL/FR): www.heididelanghe.com/contact- Instagram: www.instagram.com/heididelanghe/- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/heididelanghe