Sebastian De Brewer
8 Apr 2026TBPN Acquired, New Yorker Vs. Sam Altman, Author of The Infinity Machine, Citrini Field Trip
Genie Founder on Selling His ERP Startup to Dos
Belgian founder Sebastian — who built tech companies in the UK before moving to SF after selling Genie — recounts running scooter supply chains in China, raising from NEA and GFC to build a lightweight ERP for e-commerce merchants, the inbound Mr Beast signup they assumed was fake, and the fork in the road (becoming a financing company) that pushed them to sell. He describes joining Dos after watching its team rebuild one of his old Genie customers' setups in 25 minutes with AI-native primitives. The conversation covers why ERP is finally hot (SAP dating to 1972, rock-bottom NPS, forced S/4HANA migrations), human-operated vs agent-operated "type 2" systems, and an implementation market roughly five times the size of software (~$1.86 trillion).