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Robert Lenzhofer: From Burnout to Unstoppable Entrepreneurship: Lessons in Leadership and forging your own path with Robert Lenzhofer

From Burnout to Unstoppable Entrepreneurship: Lessons in Leadership and forging your own path with Robert Lenzhofer In this episode of iGaming Leader, Leo sits down with Robert Lenzhofer, Co-Founder & CEO of Hölle Games, to discuss his 20-year journey in the gaming industry, from his early days at B

Robert Lenzhofer
Co-Founder & CEO, Hölle Games
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02 · The guest

Robert Lenzhofer

Co-Founder & CEO, Hölle Games

Robert has been involved in free-to-play and real-money gaming for 20 years. Starting with bwin in Vienna in 2001, Robert was instrumental in the early stages of product development of the sports betting and casino products, specifically being responsible for the launch of bwin Casino and bwin Poker. Robert moved to Berlin in 2010 and headed the Product Development of Crowdpark, an Earlybird and Target-Partners funded venture in the area of social betting. Later, Robert co-founded Crowdbet, taking prediction market technology into the real-money sports betting market. In 2015, Robert co-founded Glück Games, a real-money lottery game supplier for private and state lottery companies. In 2018, Glück Games merged with Gamevy, a London-based supplier of Instant Win games. Today, the company is called g.games and has multi-year contracts with the state lotteries of Italy, Norway, Turkey, Latvia, Denmark, Morocco, etc. Today, Robert is the Co-Founder & CEO Hölle Games, an ISO 27001 certified 'Made in Germany' video slots company that also has a Remote Gaming Server (RGS) business-vertical called hinterzimmer.io.

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03 · Inside this episode

Moments worth queuing up

00:00 Robert transition into the gaming industry.
04:20 Questions about the industry's impact.
07:00 The Tanker vs. Speedboat Metaphor
10:00 The Impact of Burnout
15:38 Lessons from Large Organizations
19:45 Applying Lean Thinking in iGaming
24:00 The Power of Asynchronous Work
29:30 Advice for Aspiring Leaders

In his own words

01 / 03

“The organization should be like a brain, retaining knowledge and learning from its experiences.”

02 / 03

“Burnout isn't about working too many hours—it's about feeling out of control.”

03 / 03

“You learn the most when you lose. Winning hardly teaches you anything.”

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