Raoul Felix Maier grounds his investing in the philosophy of Epictetus, Plato, and Aristotle's idea of eudaimonia, tracing those values back to growing up on his grandmother's small farm in rural Austria, and he applies a specific post-seed lens with thresholds like around $1M ARR for SaaS, 20,000 daily active users for consumer apps, and $5M GMV for marketplaces. Before returning to venture, he founded an award-winning Austrian PropTech startup that raised capital and exited successfully, spent years at Kearney leading digital transformation work, and later became a leadership coach and author, giving him a path through the dot-com crash and Great Recession that few investors share.