Valentin · Stammheim, CH My Red Thread. Five questions I keep asking. They say more about how I work than any CV. Mechanic by training ~20 years in automotive COO, 6 → 60 people Now: AI, systems, and what's worth making
How does it work, and can I do it too? Curiosity started early. [One line on the photo: curiosity started early] [Age, place, the computer]
How does it work, and can I do it too? Four exhausts. At four I asked my mum why that car had four exhaust pipes. She didn't know. I've been finding out ever since. Watch the film · 1:44 The car: a Ferrari [model?] Formula One on TV since I was 6
How does it work, and can I do it too? Hands inside the machine Knowing how it works was never enough. I wanted to do it myself, so I trained as a mechanic and took my own cars apart. Certified Automobilmechatroniker · [year] Tuned, broke and fixed my own cars [cars owned]
How do the pieces fit together? Systems thinking A car is thousands of parts that only work together. So is a company. I look for how tools, processes and technology fit, and make them work as one. Piggy connects people and brands. I connect tools, processes and tech.
How do the pieces fit together? Inside the car company Audi, Tesla and [others]: I saw how a car gets from idea to road, and where it gets stuck on the way. Mercedes · Opel · Audi · Tesla · [others?] Audi · [role] · [years] Tesla · [role] · [years]
How do the pieces fit together? Building the machine: 6 → 60 As COO of gowago I built the company's operating system while it grew tenfold. gowago · COO · [year]–Feb 2026 6 → 60 people [what you built]
What is actually worth making? Anyone can make anything now. AI has made creating cheap and fast. That makes the real question harder: what is worth making, and what do I say no to? Malojapass, 1 am. Camera on top, shutter open for about 20 minutes. Ran to the car, drove the pass up and down as often as I could, ran back up to look. The lights are me. The third time was the charm. Once committed: a bit crazy.
What is actually worth making? UNHOMOLOGATED Cars that were properly designed and never built. AI makes the images; knowledge and taste decide which ones survive. AI-generated, hand-curated archive Instagram · TikTok [link]
What is actually worth making? Worth a Shot Club Visual stories that stay coherent across every frame, not just one lucky image. Instagram carousels [link]
Who do I make it with? 1 + 1 > 2 Good things come from people who think differently, working together. That only works with honesty: saying what's true, early. Covey, habit 6: synergise [a collaboration you're proud of]
One life. Am I living it? One life. [Why the Holstee Manifesto matters to you, in one line] The Holstee Manifesto · holstee.com [your own line]
One life. Am I living it? Where the tarmac ends Off grid, outdoors, building things with my own hands. [What it gives you, in one line] Jeep Gladiator · overlanding Jeep XJ, restoring it myself e-MTB · offset smoker
What's next? What would we make together? [A general invitation, in one line] [email] [LinkedIn] Stammheim, Switzerland