Building and Exiting a Multi-Million Dollar Business - My Lessons Learned | Bruno Lowagie

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Choose Work

Heidi De Langhe

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4 days ago

I’m Heidi, evidence-based Coach & Trainer. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights - empowering you to make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace. In each episode, I explore a work-related topic together with a national or international expert, or someone with firsthand experience. Sometimes there is a deep-dive into a theme across several episodes, other times it’s a stand-alone interview with an expert or practitioner. Episodes are primarily in English.

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

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1 hour 10 minutes 11 seconds

6 months ago

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

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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

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Contact Bruno Lowagie:

- Website: https://lowagie.com/

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blowagie/

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