Entrepreneurial Philosophy

Why we want our design partners to share in the company

We are convinced that the real economy – the backbone of the world economy – should play a far stronger role in the development of new technologies. Companies that adopt a new technology early and contribute substantially to its economic success should also share in that success, instead of leaving the resulting company value mainly to powerful financial investors.

That is why we are not building UberGPT on venture capital, but on the solid foundation of real companies.

To make it concrete: we will give 100 design partners 0.1 % of UberGPT each, without them having to invest any capital. Their economic contribution consists instead in adopting and using our technology early, applying it in their day-to-day business and helping to bring it successfully to market. And there are further benefits for our partners, which we will be glad to explain in a personal conversation.

This creates a genuine win-win situation: our design partners contribute to the economic success of UberGPT and, in return, have the opportunity to share in that success over the long term.

This decision also reflects our founder's entrepreneurial background. He grew up in a family rooted in Germany's tradition of independent, family-owned mid-sized companies – the Mittelstand – and knows the perspective of family businesses in which long-term responsibility, economic common sense and solving concrete problems come first.

This attitude shapes our approach to UberGPT: we want to invest our resources as far as possible in developing the product and bringing it successfully to market, rather than concentrating on classic venture capital fundraising. At the same time, we believe that Big Tech should not be reserved for major investors and for founders selected by big capital from their elite networks alone – because that drives the technology sector ever further away from the real economy. Together, we and our 100 design partners can and will prove to the world that there is another way.

A step towards democratizing the technology sector

Shares in promising technology companies are often held mainly by financial investors. UberGPT wants established companies from around the world to be able to own a part of it as well – businesses that know real processes, customers and markets. UberGPT is planned to be incorporated in the United States; its international character concerns who owns it.

0.1 % may look small at first. What it can be worth depends on whether, together, we succeed in developing UberGPT into an exceptionally successful technology company over the long term. We promise no returns, valuations or increases in value.

An American technology company with an international ownership structure

The leading Western technology companies come mostly from the United States. UberGPT, too, is to be built as an American technology company.

What we want to do differently is the ownership structure: instead of giving significant shares mainly to venture capital funds and other financial investors, we want to share part of our company deliberately with established companies from the real economy – in the United States and around the world.

We do not want to change where the great technology companies are based. We want to change who gets the chance to own a part of them.

This page describes the partnership model; the participation is set out in an individual agreement. It is not an offer to sell or subscribe for shares or other securities.

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