Jan Francirek

Startups & Tech

About me

Jan Francirek

I am trying to use my remaining youth to learn as much as possible and maybe even build something that works? 

Founded few startups in Prague and Silicon Valley.

Now CEO of GitGut.ai


My work experience

Co-founder and CEO of GitGut.ai (Sage.gg)

Developing AI in-game voice assistant that helps gamers to win more. Focusing on League of legends.

From 2020 to present

Founder and CEO of Mealbox.cz

Food delivery startup based in Prague, focusing on corporate delivery. (corporate restaurant in cloud). Worked beautifully for almost 3 years then all of a sudden died because of coronavirus. Food delivery startups prospered due to the crisis but not us since we focus on offices and people went home office. We were unable to change to this new situation because creating B2C delivery network from B2B is simply crazy and imo impossible without resources.

From 2018 to 2020

CEO of Selected

Dating app in Prague. Alternative to Tinder. Dating instead of swiping. Left since I failed to find a product market fit with product and kinda even dev. (I was working with offsource dev and I did not have experience to manage it)

From 2018 to 2019

Head of growth of ihateironing.com

Based in London. Scaling the company. Several months of helping to find out sustainable marketing channels and growth strategy in general.

From 2017 to 2018

CEO of Ordr.cz *ACQUIRED*

CEO of food delivery startup based in Prague, focusing on extremely fast on-demand delivery under 10 minutes. From loss to profit in 4 months then acquired.

From 2017 to 2017

Founder and CEO of Posli.com

P2P knowledge sharing platform where co-workers turn into friends through spending time together on different activities. We had founding investor, but no additional investments - we found out that companies are facing multi-platforming therefore we had no match. Same startup as Posli was obviously inspired by us and was accepted one batch later into YC https://zestful.com/. (Identical product)

From 2016 to 2016

Founder and CEO of DameZkousku.cz

Tutoring startup focused on helping students to finish their universities effectively. First month, we made $4k of revenue with only one teacher. After 3 months we had $20k revenue with 40% of profit. After 5 months, 45 people in our team and status of the biggest tutoring company in Czech Republic. Two offers to be fully acquired. I decided to pass this company to my co-founder since I had offer to go to SV to build just another "a billion dollar worth idea" and that failed miserably.

From 2015 to 2016

Founder and CEO of Bealspace technologies

Team focused on creating websites and apps. Team of 5 friends. Our team was hired to two best development studios in Czech Republic.

From 2014 to 2015

Founder and CEO of Wise Option

Startup focused on helping students to decide what to do after high school. Successfully helped 5 students on Uni's or with some small startup. No business potential - first project experience.

From 2013 to 2014

Bartender

Making cool drinks.

From 2012 to 2013

My education

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Studying for fun long-distance studies "Forestry specialized in Forest Ecosystems Protection and Silviculture". I love forests and I decided to find out more about them. I am about to pause studies whenever I cannot handle it with GitGut which is a total priority.

From 2020 to present

Self-studying (currently astrophysics)

Lecturer in mimoskolu.cz, MOOC courses, self-studying astrophysics with some great professors in Czech republic.

From 2017 to present

Draper University

Entrepreneurial "uni" in Silicon Valley, focusing on personal grow of people. Definitely recommended to people who are thinking about starting a business. Not too effective for people already in business development in my opinion but great connections for everyone though.

From 2017 to 2017

Newton College - International Business

Same like at University of Economics I passed only one semester before I decided to go to US so I had to stop the studies. I was able to test on this school my first bigger project DameZkousku.cz. Gained a lot of feedback from students and teachers. Although not such a huge income of academic knowledge - a lot of experience gained.

From 2015 to 2016

University of Economics in Prague

I passed one semester but after that realized that this kind of deep economic studies is not what I want to be focused on. I met few great people that I am working with today.

From 2014 to 2015

Business College in Satalice

Thanks to self-studying and help of my parents I skipped one year & passed A-levels with 100%

From 2013 to 2014

Grammar School GULZ

From 2011 to 2013

Grammar School TGSC

From 2007 to 2011

My foreign visits

2017

London

Lived in London scaled ihateironing.com (several months)

2016

USA - SF Bay area

Almost an year. Creating cool stuff!

2015

The United Kingdom

Northern England experience, 24/7 rainy (a month)

2015

Germany

Boosting German on B2 level (a month)

2015

Russian Federation

Discovering a new country (a month in St, Petersburg and Moscow) , cool experience and learnt russian to A2 level.

2014

Germany

Work praxis in Forchheim (a month)

2014

Germany

Language course in Munich (2 weeks)

2014

Germany

Language course in Lindau (2 months)

2013

The United States

Language course in Los Angeles, San Francisco and a trip to Las Vegas!

2010

The United Kingdom

Language course in Edinburgh

2010

The United Kingdom

Language course in London

My softskills

My hardskills

Czech language

Native

English language

Non-problem communication

German language

Advanced communication

Russian language

Able to communicate

Spanish language

Hablas español?

Microsoft office

Advanced using

iOS - SWIFT

Basics/Advanced using

HTML

Basics/Advanced using

CSS

Basics/Advanced using

Java

Basics

PHP

Basics

Driving

License B, B1, AM, A1, A2 (Vin Diesel style)

Boxing

Rocky 7 confirmed?

My educational courses and certificates

2015

E-courses

Seduo.cz, coursera.com, Stanford E-courses

2015

Certificate of Rhetoric course

Rhetor Institut Prague

2015

Course of presentation skills I. II. III. IV.

SelfRepGuru

2014

Certificate of Lindau language school

Dialoge Inst.

2014

Certificate of passing A-Levels

A+ grades average

2013

Certificate of LA EF language school

2012

Bartender Certificate

2010

Certificate of Edinburgh language school

My hobbies

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