Sebastiaan Hooft

Sebastiaan Hooft is one of the Netherlands' best-known entrepreneurs, having founded twenty companies in fifteen years and earned a place among the country's one hundred most successful self-made entrepreneurs, as listed by the Dutch business magazine Quote. At the height of his success he nearly lost everything to a complete physical, mental, and emotional breakdown. After nine months of recovery, he made it his mission to help fellow entrepreneurs avoid the same fate. He also founded Redesign Records and lectures at business schools including Nyenrode Business University. His book Redesign, which draws on in-depth interviews with more than five hundred entrepreneurs from fifteen countries, became one of the top ten bestselling entrepreneurship books in the Netherlands.