I started my first company before I'd finished my first year of university. Not out of ambition exactly - more like I couldn't help it. No career path seemed to offer the same freedom to learn things the hard way - so I co-founded an event company, then a software house, figured out how business actually works, and eventually sold it.

I've always been drawn to everything. Not in a scattered way - more like a genuine anxiety that the world contains more interesting things than a single life can hold. New sports, new fields, new problems to understand from first principles. The fear isn't failure. It's running out of time before I get to all of it.

That curiosity is probably why I ended up in venture. It's one of the few jobs where being interested in everything is actually useful. The software house got acquired. I angel invested for a while, spent time at a Warsaw-based VC fund, and in 2009 co-founded Credo Ventures with Ondřej. It didn't feel like a grand plan at the time. It rarely does.

As an investor I'm a generalist by nature - I get genuinely curious about most verticals, which I think is an advantage when the world keeps changing what "tech" means. What I look for in founders is harder to define: authenticity, a real problem they need to solve, and the kind of relationship where we can be honest with each other even when things aren't going well.

Outside of work, I travel with my family whenever I can and do most sports. The thing I'm probably most serious about is aviation - I've been behind the controls of most types of flying vehicles and I'm slowly working through the remaining ones. Spaceships are still on the list.