Lars Holdgaard

Building boring B2B SaaS. Quietly compounding. ex-Likvido (acquired by Visma). Lisbon 🇵🇹. Dad. 82/197 countries. DMs open 👋

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@miguelgbandeira Try two weeks in Denmark and you’d love it here in Portugal again. We have rough half prices here :)

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@kristianleth Lyder helt korrekt. Har slettet min IDE for 3 mdr siden og 100% af kode her er AI :-)

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@miguelgbandeira Tried but ended up making our 2nd floor an office instead. Coworking sucks. Much more efficient having your own setup designed how you want it + no worries when you have meetings.

I think social Cowork days a few times a month is better ROI for happiness

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@SimonHoiberg How do you guys handle school with the kids in two locations? We’re considering a similar setup!

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@SimonHoiberg @hispanicnomad @SartorialShootr So true. Explaining/experiencing how things like health care or general services work here (Denmark / Portugal) to my wife from Asia whom I met in Dubai… not easy 😂

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@fullstackmiguel Sir it had been raining basically every day this year 😂 we also loved yesterday but damn - rough start of 2026 here

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@TheJerzWay But I’d bet some EU countries will start implementing the citizenship based model - unfortunately - failing states do desperate things 😅

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@nikitabier @danielrakh @bengold That's extremely impressive, and yet so obvious.
I wonder whats Docusigns ~6800 employees are doing

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@danielrakh @bengold Engineers, 2 designers, 1.5 product managers and me

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@levelsio Wait, what - is that for real?

How did that get approved?
Like, I'm honestly curious.

How will most things even function with that tax (i guess no startups can actually stay?)

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

Hate or love Dubai, this is not happening.

Left in 2022 and was back in January. It’s growing FAST.

It’s only getting started.

[Rattan Dhillon @ShivrattanDhil1]

Mark my words give it a few years and Dubai will feel like an empty desert filled with buildings.

The charm of Atlantis The Palm is fading fast. Visitor numbers are reportedly down by nearly 40%, and the place often feels almost empty now.

It’s become a classic case of “been there, done that.” Dubai has turned into a one-time visit destination overpriced, not very family-friendly, and heavily dependent on luxury appeal.

Once people check it off their list, they rarely feel the urge to return. Over the years, the excitement has worn off.

Today, travelers value money more than ever, choosing simplicity over excess and thinking twice before spending big on luxury.

@ATLANTIS @visitdubai @VisitDubai_IN

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@zain_hoda But is the “power”/moat of a system of record the data or the extreme amount of dependencies that is built around it across hundred or thousands of employees?

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@jacobrodri_ @nic_amadio Giga risky strategy. Generally don’t ever include your home/citizen country in that tax strategy 😅 they will always attempt claiming (and honestly extremely fair).

Combine it as a EU tourist and stay much less in your citizenship country, could maybe work ..

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@jchatelaine Are there any real people left on Linkedin? :D
judging the feeds it's 100% ai posts haha

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@ItsKieranDrew Most ppl leave for 3+ months during summer + when you connect with the right crowd the status goes away :) dubai can be great (our family miss it).

nowhere is perfect

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

This is really THE question.

Right now a million features are not being built because devs are giga busy and roadmaps are full of stuff.

Will AI just mean we get to raise the floor of products OR industry is fucked ?

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

The cost of building software dropped dramatically from 1998 to 2006. AWS (vs self-hosting), MySQL (viable ~ 2005), high-level languages all massively reduced cost to build, and led to a Cambrian explosion of software businesses. But this did not make software cos less valuable!

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

When asking developers if they use AI:

On X: “I’ve 8 terminals running independently in worktrees in a Ralph loops 24/7!”

Normies: “he he GitHub copilot once made one unit test for me”

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@corbtt What’s insane is this is not the main topic in news. The change in all workplaces, change of biggest companies 😅

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@MOOOOrion @corbin_braun that's the point - you need the distribution/network effect moats *now*

[Lars Holdgaard @LarsHoldgaard]

@IterIntellectus Large amounts of unemployed single men used to be a nations biggest fear. It would create uprisings and war.

The experiment we run with now with women is equally scary. So much pain and deeply unfulfilled lifes :( also unsure where this ends