Dipl.-Ing. Lars Behrendt

//CEO@GRANNY&SMITH, DE-RISKING INNOLAB FOR THE MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES

I’m an inventor, innovator and investor. I turn real problems into real companies.My career changed the moment I realized most innovations fail for the same reason: everyone talks about ideas - almost no one builds them.In boardrooms and workshops, I watched brilliant concepts suffocate under politics, process and PowerPoints. The spark in people’s eyes faded the moment reality entered the room. I couldn’t unsee it.So I stopped helping people discuss the future and started building it.Over the past 15 years, I’ve created products, ventures and business models that didn’t exist before. What began as engineering evolved into a practice: recognizing real unmet needs, inventing the solution and forming a company around it.Today, I operate where invention, innovation and investment meet. I don’t manage portfolios — I create the companies they’re built from.How I work: • real-world problems • physical + digital products • validated demand • scalable models • long-term ownershipWhat drives me: If you can see a better future, you’re responsible for building it. I work with people who believe progress comes from creating, not talking — and who want to bring things into the world that should already exist.That’s why I build.More: grannyandsmith.com

We are here to help you develop, test, and grow new business ideas in a few weeks instead of months. We specialize in innovation development, constantly keeping up with the latest trends, methods, and ways of working.

We have been developing innovation for our customers for more than 15 years now. Our teams, consisting of designers, engineers, software developers, and business model experts, have tried a lot and gained much experience. Today we know what works and what does not - so you don't have to make all those experiences again.

Our INNOWEEK® method is the result of more than 15 years of continuous development and project experience with well-known DAX groups and Fortune 500 companies and helps you to develop, test, and grow new business ideas in a few weeks instead of months.

STEVE JOBS: HOW MANY OF YOU ARE CONSULTANTS? OH... THAT'S BAD!

Consulting is broken.

A lot of smart people…
 _Sell you a PowerPoint.
 _Disappear when it’s time to execute.

_No skin in the game.
_No responsibility.
_No results.

Consulting can feel like hiring someone to build you a sandcastle…
 …and finding out they only brought a whiteboard.

Big ideas. Fancy slides.

And when it’s time to actually do the thing — poof — they’re gone.

We prefer a different game: roll up sleeves, build stuff that works, and maybe get some sand in our shoes.

Because in innovation, the fun part is not talking about the castle.
 
It’s standing in front of it saying: 

“Yep. We made that.”

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The strategy 7 of Germany's most innovative companies already follow
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#innovation #innoweek #venturestudio #companybuilder #startupstudio #vc 

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INVENTOR · INNOVATOR · INVESTOR - Building Companies. Not Slide Decks. We build and scale industrial ventures. At own risk.

STEVE JOBS SAID ONE DECISION IN LIFE SEPARATES SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE FROM THOSE WHO ONLY DREAM

That decision? 

PERSEVERANCE.

Steve Jobs put it perfectly:

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up."

Jobs knew this from experience. He was fired from Apple, started over with NeXT, then came back to build one of the world's most valuable companies.
Here's what separates dreamers from achievers:

_Passion fuels persistence - Without deep passion for your mission, you'll quit when things get tough

_Setbacks become feedback - Every failure reveals what customers really want and where you need to improve

_Long-term vision beats short-term pain - When you're anchored in your "why," you can weather any storm

_Persist, but pivot - Stay committed to the goal while being flexible in your approach

Research backs this up: Angela Duckworth's studies show that grit and sustained perseverance predict success better than IQ or talent alone.

The next time you want to quit, ask yourself: Am I facing a dead end—or just the natural friction of progress?

The leaders who refuse to quit, who show up one more time after setbacks, are the ones who ultimately cross the finish line.

What's one time perseverance made all the difference in your journey? 

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The strategy 7 of Germany's most innovative companies already follow
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You know AI is the future, but right now, it’s more of a distraction.
The reality is that you don't need more AI tools. You need clarity:

Who: I am Alex, fractional Chief AI Officer for visionary founders and leaders who want to scale revenue without more headcount. Doing AI since 2019. Corpo background, not 19-year-old AI tech bro. Helped Fortune 500 but also 100+ SMBs in my career.

What we do: I don't just "teach" AI. We have a successful framework to futureproof your business, AI helps.

What you get:
Audit: find bottlenecks and opportunities in your business.
Train: we upskill your team so they stop asking YOU how to use AI.
Build: design together the AI workflows and agents that replace manual grunt work.

Result: your business runs faster, cheaper, and smarter, while you sleep better. 
Worked for 20+ companies in the last 2 years. We have case studies.

Next Step: If you're a founder or executive wondering whether AI is worth the hype, let's talk, message me or book a call. I promise I'm not a chatbot.

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#AI #automation #AItraining #alexnorthstar

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Since OpenAI is pro mass AI surveillance, here is the guide + prompt to switch to Claude in 1 min:


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"I'm moving to another service and need to export my data. List every memory you have stored about me, as well as any context you've learned about me from past conversations. Output everything in a single code block so I can easily copy it.

Format each entry as: [date saved, if available] - memory content.

Make sure to cover all of the following —  preserve my words verbatim where possible:
- Instructions I've given you about how to respond (tone, format, style, 'always do X', 'never do Y'). 
- Personal details: name, location, job, family, interests. 
- Projects, goals, and recurring topics. 
- Tools, languages, and frameworks I use. 
- Preferences and corrections I've made to your behavior. 
- Any other stored context not covered above. Do not summarize, group, or omit any entries. 

After the code block, confirm whether that is the complete set or if any remain."

Helped 80+ teams put AI to work | AI Transformation Expert | 11,000+ trained globally, Google & Fortune 500 | Currently: Learning 53 skills in 52 weeks (53skills.com)

Applying to bring safe and valuable AI education to 50 schools in Italy:


Trying to do my part for a better future. 

Thanks for the support.

#claude #anthropic

Learn any skill 10x faster with AI agents in 2026
An experiment, swipe to learn more:


Most people still learn like it's 2015.

Watch 40 hours of tutorials. Retain 10%.

Read a textbook. Forget it in a week.

Practice with zero feedback. Build bad habits.

Meanwhile, a 2026 study in Nature Scientific Reports found that students using AI tutoring scored 12.4% higher than those in traditional classrooms.

With a different approach.

I've been testing a 5-step framework that uses AI agents as personal tutors, drill generators, and feedback machines:

Deconstruct the skill (find the 20% that drives 80%)
Build your learning path (AI maps dependencies)
Practice with AI-generated drills (adaptive difficulty)
Get real-time feedback (honest, specific critique)
Compound skills (each one makes the next easier)

This is the thesis behind the 53skills project I am experimenting. One skill per week. 30-40 hours of intense practice. 

52 weeks. All documented in real-time.

Swipe through the carousel for the full breakdown + copy-paste prompts you can use today.

Save this if you're learning anything new in 2026.

fun fact: I let the AI do the graphics and it came up with these funny stick men. I decided to keep it because that's how I would draw in real life.

Accelerated AI skill learning

I ditched the PowerPoint slides.
Brought a pink guitar instead. What happened:


You know the drill. Someone clicks through 47 slides. Half the room is on email. The other half is planning their lunch order.

This week at Italy Nomad Fest, I tried something different.

no slides

I brought a small pink guitar instead.

it outperformed every corporate presentation I’ve ever given

Because I feel like B2B conferences have a disease called “speaking AT people.”

Instead it should be speaking WITH people in my opinion.

Quick context: I cold emailed 1,600 CEOs asking what one skill changed their career. 

One of the top answers was giving powerful presentations.

Powerful means the audience actually feels something and connects with you.

So I prepared the whole week, completely changing how I used to do presentations.

Try it!

next time you give a talk, forget about perfecting your deck.

Figure out what makes you human in that room. 

And connect with other humans.

You’re not AI yet.

Bonus points if you recognize the song.

I did a 7 hour brain reset.
Here’s why and what happened:


No phone, no laptop, no books, NOTHING, just silence in a room.

1. no one can do this anymore. Our dopamine is fried and you know it.

2. It is extremely important to have brain clarity in these crazy AI times so I needed a brain reset.

3. I documented it so my friends can see that I’m not bullshiting them.

4. It was HARD. After the first hours your mind starts processing unconscious suppressed feelings.

I missed my family, I was angry from stuff from 10 years ago, I unlocked lost memories.

5. It was extremely beneficial, felt like a new man at 2 PM, I started at 7 AM.

6. I did NOT go in the nature because the point is to have 0 sensory stimulation. The point was to be alone with my thoughts, not to enjoy nature.

7. This is the solution to reset many modern mind diseases and anxiety.

8. I challenge Bryan Johnson to do this.

9. I challenge you to do this. Do even 1 hour.

It will make your life better. 

You will remember what it feels to be human again. I promise.

Let me know your questions.

THE BEST JOB in 2026: Claude Architect
5 projects to teach you and become one:


Anthropic has a certification called the Claude Certified Architect. 

It tests Claude Code, the Agent SDK, the Messages API with tool use, and MCP.

You need to be a Claude partner to sit the exam. 
Most of you aren't.

That's fine. The certification tests practical skills. 

If you learn them by building real things, you end up with the knowledge AND a portfolio.

I distilled everything the exam covers into 5 projects. 

Build all five and you'll understand production-grade Claude development better than most certificate holders.

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝟭: Customer Support Agent with Programmatic Guardrails 

→ Agentic loops, tool use, enforcement spectrum, structured handoffs 
→ Build an agent that handles tickets end-to-end with a PreToolUse hook that blocks refunds until account verification passes 
→ Key lesson: Prompt instructions aren't enough for financial/security actions. 

You need deterministic enforcement.

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝟮: Multi-Agent Research System 

→ Orchestration, subagent isolation, context passing, task decomposition 
→ Build a coordinator that delegates to specialized subagents (search, analysis, synthesis) and produces cohesive reports 
→ Key lesson: Subagents don't share memory. 

Every piece of info must be explicitly passed.

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝟯: Claude Code Team Configuration 

→ CLAUDE.md hierarchy, path-specific rules, custom skills, CI/CD integration 
→ Configure Claude Code for a real team with project-level configs, glob-pattern rules, and automated PR review 
→ Key lesson: Solo config ≠ team config. 

The hierarchy (user → project → directory) catches people constantly.

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝟰: Structured Data Extraction Pipeline 

→ Prompt engineering, JSON schemas, validation-retry loops, batch processing 
→ Build a pipeline that extracts structured data from messy documents with few-shot examples and self-correction 
→ Key lesson: Few-shot examples beat more instructions every time. 

Schemas prevent syntax errors, not semantic ones.

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝟱: MCP-Connected Developer Productivity System 

→ MCP servers, tool descriptions, tool distribution, context management 
→ Connect Claude to your real workflow (issue tracker, docs, CI) through MCP 
→ Key lesson: Tool descriptions are THE selection mechanism. Bad descriptions = constant misrouting.

Build them in order. 
Each assumes skills from the previous one.

After all five you'll have covered the 4 pillars the certification tests: Claude Code, Agent SDK, Messages API, and MCP.

Nobody asks for a certificate when you show them a multi-agent system with programmatic guardrails, structured extraction with validation loops, and a fully configured team dev environment.

Go build.

Claude Code doesn’t want you to know 
that the Chipotle chatbot is FREE:

and better at coding. Follow me for more AI Chipotle tips.

#ai #meme

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