Mirko Lindner

Raremind advises founders, executives and investors on product strategy, digital monetisation and commercial decision-making, with a focus on software-enabled hardware businesses and AI adoption. - Advise scale-ups on product strategy, pricing, go-to-market, organisation design and digital business models. - Support founders and executive teams in evaluating strategic options, product investments, market expansion and commercial trade-offs. - Conduct commercial and product due diligence for investors

Product, pricing and digital commercial ownership across Maxeon globally. Built SunPower One from zero to 80% gross margin with product P&L, pricing and commercial authority. Built Maxeon’s first D2C e-commerce business to $5M+ annual revenue and 20% YoY growth. Built and led a 50+ global product, design and engineering organisation. Launched SunPower One across Europe and Australia, including Samsung SmartThings and Star Charge integrations.

Pioneered the shift from hardware to software-first thinking. Built the software product management function from zero, introduced roadmap discipline, and led the R&D platform that unlocked >20% revenue growth.

Turnaround of a loss-making industry body with 50% member churn. Rebuilt into a self-sustaining organisation with $500K+ in restored revenue and 25+ cross-company engineering teams driving open broadband standards across 30+ member companies.

Web3-native device management platform for Taiwanese manufacturers. Blockchain-based authentication and monetisation across fragmented industrial supply chains. $250K secured, 50+ partners validated, ARPU increased 500%.

Technical product strategy across 17 global markets — fixed, mobile, and IoT. Responsible for a £100M+ architecture transformation. Evaluation of M&A targets (€50M+). Digital retail innovation project: 4x better performance than physical retail within 6 months of launch. Düsseldorf and London.

Part of product innovation and digital strategy team at Vodafone, launching new software capabilities and accelerating go-to-market across 12+ markets. Acted as technical product manager for fixed-net portfolio, drove retail digital innovation that outperformed stores 4:1, and delivered six high-impact products from concept to launch. Evaluated 20+ startups for product fit, including a €50M M&A prospect, and launched a mobile product on 1.5M devices.

Early-stage mobile agency. Built and led the engineering team, directed 20+ major app launches including for Vodafone, and grew the portfolio into a €220K quarterly profit engine — 95% of company revenue.

Open hardware startup. Zero to thousands of devices sold across three continents. Built the entire commercial stack from scratch: eCommerce, sales infrastructure, distribution partnerships across 3 continents.

Shipped a complete smartphone UI from zero in under 11 months with a distributed team in Taipei. Open source, no margin for error, real product on real hardware. One of the earliest fully open mobile stacks ever shipped commercially.