After the Cell Door Opens: Volker Hirsch on Survival, Reinvention and Seeing What Others Miss
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After the Cell Door Opens: Volker Hirsch on Survival, Reinvention and Seeing What Others Miss
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Part Two of the Volker Hirsch story begins where most careers would have ended.
Fresh from being arrested and held in a Maltese jail in the collapse of a dot-com era mobile incubator, Volker Hirsch had a choice. Retreat to safety or build again. He chose the harder path.
In this episode of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE follows Volker through the aftermath. How he rebuilt his career, moved to the UK, helped shape the early mobile games industry, co-founded multiple companies, and went on to invest in some of the UK’s most successful education and technology startups.
Volker reflects on what failure really teaches you, why being early is often indistinguishable from being wrong, and how pattern recognition, not prediction, defines the best founders and investors. He talks candidly about venture capital, the difference between UK and US attitudes to risk, and why ecosystems like the North of England need confidence as much as capital.
This is a conversation about perspective earned the hard way. About learning when to walk away, when to double down, and how to see around corners after you have been burned.
If Part One was about the rise and fall of technology giants, Part Two is about what it takes to survive them.