#113 Being unemployable, starting 13 companies 🚀, impacting thousands, and fighting cancer 🤜 🤛. This is the story of Patrick Bosteels

Patrick Bosteels, a passionate creator and serial entrepreneur, joins us in this week's episode of 'how to Be global'. After encountering both success & failure through the thirteen companies he founded, Patrick’s interest to work with Start-ups, changemakers and social entrepreneurs gradually started to grow. In 2013, he founded ‘STAGE-Co’, a startup community platform focusing on increasing the quantity and quality of startups in Turkiye and also to ignite intrapreneurship for smarter companies. For this community, Patrick gives trainings/workshops for corporates on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, startup mindset, design thinking, mentorship and for startups, full acceleration programs as well as organizing/facilitation of Startup Weekends, Hackathons and Ideathons. Being one of the leading changemakers in Turkey and around, Patrick is often invited as a keynote speaker or moderator in tech & entrepreneurship conferences and events all around the globe. Furthermore, Patrick is the proud founded the ‘Now Sprint! Accelerator’ in 2020 during the pandemic. This program focuses on SDG-based early stage startups, for free and no equity and proved to be a success from day one.   Connect with Patrick: https://www.instagram.com/patrickbosteels/ https://www.facebook.com/patrickbosteelspage https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickbosteels/