# Alexander Trieb

> Alexander Trieb (Alexander Christian Trieb, handle "dertrieb") is a founder, operator and advisor with more than twenty years in digital products and platforms. He co-founded tripwolf (acquired by Langenscheidt) and founded travelaudience (acquired by Amadeus), worked at Palantir Technologies, and now builds AI-native products from Asunción, Paraguay, including Vakia. Official website: https://www.dertrieb.com

Roles: leader, innovator, advisor, operator, builder.
Location: Asunción, Paraguay. Languages: German (native), English (fluent), Spanish (working proficiency).
Contact: via the form at https://www.dertrieb.com/#contact, email dertrieb@gmail.com, or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dertrieb

## Career

- 2025 – today: Founder, Product & Technology Lead, Vakia (Asunción, Paraguay). Offline-first SaaS platform for cattle management on Mercosur estancias: double-entry livestock ledger, herd traceability, offline sync and GIS mapping, built with AI-assisted engineering on Supabase, Vercel, Expo and n8n. Piloted on a 22,000-hectare estancia in the Chaco with 5,000+ cattle.
- 2023 – 2024: Sabbatical, building out a 200-hectare finca in Guairá, Paraguay (housing, internet, hybrid solar grid, market garden).
- 2022 – 2023: Founder & Managing Director, Duffle (Berlin). Travel-retail marketplace with quick-commerce delivery; pilots at Copenhagen and Berlin airports; 7-figure strategic financing.
- 2020 – 2021: General Partner, ennea capital partners (Berlin). Interim CMO at a Berlin growth company (key KPIs up 3–4x year over year within six months); advised founders from Seed to Series D.
- 2019 – 2020: Business Development Executive, Palantir Technologies (Berlin / Munich). Scoped customer problems in media, transportation, energy and advertising into data-integration work on Palantir Foundry.
- 2011 – 2018: Founder & Managing Director, travelaudience (Cologne / Berlin), acquired by Amadeus. Programmatic advertising platform for the travel industry: 120+ people, 4B+ requests a day, 550M+ unique devices, 36+ markets.
- 2008 – 2011: Co-Founder & COO, tripwolf (Vienna), acquired by Langenscheidt. Social travel guide; #1 mobile travel app in 2010 in several markets.
- 2005 – 2008: Senior Consultant, Capgemini Consulting (Vienna).
- 2002 – 2004: Co-Founder & Project Lead, IndustryLogic IT (Vienna). ERP platform for SMEs.
- 2000 – 2001: Software Engineer & Product Manager, Transactive Solutions (Boston), acquired by Bertelsmann.

## Education

- MSc Economics & Computer Science (with distinction), TU Wien & University of Vienna
- BSc Business Administration (Finance & MIS), Boston University
- Executive Leadership Development Program, IE Business School, Madrid (2016)

## Links

- [Website](https://www.dertrieb.com/): profile and contact
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dertrieb)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/dertrieb)