Robert Windesheim

Robert is on the investment team at Founders Fund. Previously, he conducted theoretical physics research at the University of Munich, ETH Zurich, and UC Berkeley. Robert holds both a BS and MS in Physics from the University of Munich.

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Missing founders: how to revive Europe’s entrepreneurial spirit

In Germany, physics curricula include almost no breadth requirements; students take only physics or closely related courses. In my cohort, entrepreneurship wasn’t presented as an option at all. Where university spin-outs do occur, they frequently address extremely narrow problems. These observations reflect a broader European issue: cultural and structural barriers discourage technical talent from founding companies and from working on actual problems that scale.