About
Robbe HeylenAntwerp, Belgium
I am Robbe, 25, born and raised in Antwerp. I am an extrovert in the most useful sense of the word: I get my energy from rooms full of people I have not met yet. Cold calling never scared me, because a cold call is just a conversation that has not warmed up yet.
That instinct turned into a career. I started a graphic design studio at fifteen, built a name on delivering consistently, and never really stopped. What I actually do, across every company I have founded, is find the right people, earn their trust, and keep it. The industry changes. That part never does.
Outside of work there is a fiancée and a daughter who reset my priorities in the best possible way. Antwerp is home. Dutch and English are the languages I work in, and my network runs well past the Belgian border.
Details
- Based in
- Antwerp, Belgium
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Family
- Fiancée and daughter
- Age
- 25
A cold call is just a conversation that has not warmed up yet.
Operating principles
Four things that have not changed since I was fifteen.
01
Entrepreneurial by default
Fifteen years old with a logo studio. The reflex never went away: see the gap, build the thing, sell the thing, then do it better.
02
Built for the room
Networking is not a task on my calendar, it is how I think. I would rather have twenty real conversations than two hundred cold emails.
03
Professional, not corporate
Straight talk, delivered on time. Clients stayed with me for years because the work landed and the communication never went quiet.
04
People first, always
Caring is not soft. Remembering what actually matters to someone is most of the job, in business and outside of it.
Ten years, four companies, one exit. In order.
Track record