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Christian, Dad and Entrepreneur.
Phoenix, AZ and Warsaw, Poland
Joined May 2009
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I’m an American entrepreneur who’s called Poland home since 2022. My wife is Polish, and over 14 years of visiting, I’ve been amazed and inspired by this country’s growth and transformation.
Poland is now where I feel safest—and where I’m proud to raise my young daughter. I’ve already begun investing in assets here and look forward to sharing my experiences, lessons, and observations along the way.
Ex-triathlete in recovery -- training is addictive!
Congrats and very inspiring, Patrick. You’re clearly are a man of conviction. You’re an inspiration. Godspeed.
Przyjechałem do Polski z Wielkiej Brytanii 16 lat temu.
Wtedy wszyscy, nawet Polacy, dziwili się, że wierzyłem w Polskę i chciałem tu mieszkać na stałe.
Nie mogłem tego logicznie wytłumaczyć. Czułem w sercu, że Polska jest moim miejscem na tej ziemi.
Z czasem poznałem moją cudowną żonę i założyliśmy naszą piękną rodzinę razem.
Zostanie polskim obywatelem było moim marzeniem, które udało mi się zrealizować w kwietniu 2020 roku, kiedy Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej nadał mi polskie obywatelstwo, między innymi za moje filmy o polskich bohaterach z czasów II wojny światowej.
Ale miałem jeszcze jedno marzenie. Chciałem iść śladami bohatera z II wojny światowej, Rona Jeffreysa, który służył w Armii Krajowej i, tak jak ja, nauczył się polskiego, i zostać polskim żołnierzem.
W sobotę, 19 września, to marzenie stało się rzeczywistością. Po intensywnym szkoleniu podstawowym złożyłem przysięgę i zostałem żołnierzem 18. Stołecznej Brygady Obrony Terytorialnej @terytorialsi #18SBOT
Kiedy wypowiadałem Rotę przysięgi, miałem ciarki na całym ciele, wiedząc, że to jest obietnica na całe życie.
To była kulminacja 20 lat miłości do Polski.
Chcę podziękować wszystkim moim kolegom i koleżankom ze szkolenia. Wiecie, kim jesteście.
Chcę podziękować wszystkim Polakom za sposób, w jaki mnie przyjęliście i jak mi pomagaliście stać się jednym z NAS.
Przyszłość należy do Polski. 🇵🇱
Meanwhile in Poland.
A man with purpose and conviction. Great respect.
Yes, I am training for war.
Although I pray I never have to fight.
Becoming a Polish citizen was my greatest ever honour.
When I got the message the Polish president had signed the decree, I actually felt heavy.
I realised in that moment that Article 85 of the Polish Constituion applied to me too.
The obligation to defend the fatherland was no longer a theory.
I feel determined to prove I am worthy of being given the signal honour to become a Polish citizen.
I know Polish history and I know that our freedom isn’t free. It was built on the backs of brave Polish men and women.
I feel disgusted by those who get Polish citizenship merely for bureaucracy reasons.
To all new Poles…
We don’t have to fight
But we do have to serve.
Earn your right to become a Pole…
This post was written by me without AI, from the heart…
Plate carrier by Polish company Targets Creators photo by Okiem Obiektywu - Fotograf Eventowy
Incredible. The success continues for Poland.
This is a moment that, in my opinion, Poland should be incredibly proud of. Two friends. An $11 billion valuation. Four years of hard work. Today, they’ve built one of Europe’s top two AI giants. And this June, they’re coming home to share their story with all of you.
Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski. Best friends since their days at Copernicus High School in Warsaw. Four years ago, they started building something very few people believed in. To be honest, I didn't believe in it either. Today, ElevenLabs is valued at $11 billion and is recognized as the global leader in AI voice agents. Their technology reaches over a billion people worldwide. A billion. I’m writing that out because the scale is just mind-blowing.
The world's top VC funds are backing them, along with NVIDIA, the most valuable company on the planet. Their client list includes heavy hitters like Meta, Cisco, and Revolut. They were the first in the world to break the realism barrier in AI-generated voice, doing so in 70 languages and consistently beating out giants like Google and OpenAI. They’ve graced the cover of Forbes and were named to Time’s list of the most influential people in AI.
What’s even more impressive? The core of their R&D happens right here in Warsaw. Poles hold pivotal roles at ElevenLabs—shoutout to Maciej Mylik, Anna Chrzanowska-Kovacs, Mateusz Kopeć, and Marcin Jeleński.
Beyond the tech, these guys are fully invested in the Polish ecosystem. They are the lead partners for the AI Master’s program at the University of Warsaw and sponsors of the National Olympiads in Informatics and AI. They are actively lifting brilliant Polish talent onto the global stage.
On June 1st, Warsaw will become a major European tech hub. The Teatr Wielki will host the biggest event in ElevenLabs' history—following their massive shows in San Francisco and London. We’re talking nearly 2,000 people: the biggest names in tech, business, and government. The future of voice starts here.
I’ll be doing everything I can to be there, and I highly encourage you to do the same. Link to apply is below in comment. Seats are extremely limited, and the event is primarily geared toward the business community.
@matiii @dabkowski_piotr —pure class. Nothing but pride.
BREAKING: Flynn Family statement about today’s DOJ settlement regarding my case.
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Today, after ten years of fighting, I have reached a settlement agreement with the United States Government in my case regarding the Russian Hoax FBI lawfare against me.
Nothing can fully compensate for the hell that my family and I have endured over these many years—the relentless attacks, the destruction of reputations, the financial ruin, and the profound personal toll inflicted upon us all. No amount of money or formal resolution can erase the pain caused by a prosecution that should never have been brought.
This ordeal stemmed from partisan government officials in a coordinated effort to pursue an innocent man as part of a broader campaign to undermine @realDonaldTrump and his administration. It was a relentless, partisan pursuit that weaponized federal law enforcement in an audacious and unjust manner.
Yet this settlement goes far in demonstrating that the current Department of Justice, under the leadership of President Trump, Attorney General Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Blanche, and other dedicated departmental leaders, is committed to bringing accountability for the bad acts of those partisan actors. It marks a meaningful step toward righting a profound wrong.
There should never again be such a brazen attempt to weaponize federal law enforcement against political opponents or innocent citizens. It is essential that we remain guardians of the rule of law. A huge part of that guardianship is accountability, holding those who abuse power to answer for their actions.
It is not this Department of Justice that created this crisis of politicized justice, but they are doing right by truly pursuing justice now—ensuring that the facts prevail and that such abuses are not repeated. This resolution, while imperfect, brings to an end this chapter of injustice. This small measure of accountability should help the nation heal regarding the abuses of the past. It allows my family and me to move forward.
My family and I remain grateful for the support of so many who stood by us. It was their support and our faith in God Almighty that sustained us and gave us the strength to endure. I will continue to advocate for the restoration of integrity in all our institutions.
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Inspirational.
This is incredible.
This machine is capable of cleaning up 100 million kg of plastic ocean waste, and as of 2025, it has already collected about 500,000 kg of plastic.
It aims to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.
Well said. Rich continues to inspire me. God speed.
On May 8, 2025 I underwent spinal fusion surgery, a 6 hour procedure in which I was filleted from front to back.
First, my abdomen was opened up so that the surgeon could scrape out the disc between L5 and S1, replacing it with a perforated cage containing bone grafting material that was screwed into my vertebra.
Then I was flipped over and opened up on my back so that my surgeon could screw vertical rods into L5 and S1 to secure my spine position to ensure the fusion sets properly.
The procedure was successful, correcting 15 years of lower back debilitation due to severe Spondylolisthesis. However, the recovery process demanded I endure far more than I bargained for, debilitating me in ways I thought might handicap me permanently.
For the first 3 months I could barely move. For the first six months my activity was limited to walking only. Pain was constant.
At nine months I was still in so much discomfort, still so limited in my range of motion, still too unstable to do anything to elevate my heart rate.
My weight ballooned. My muscles atrophied. My mood plummeted. And I was becoming resigned to the idea that my athletic identity (let alone performing extreme feats of ultra-endurance) was a thing of the past, a memory well behind me.
But very slowly after that I began to turn a corner. At ten months, I finally felt stable enough to resume a very modest non-spine compressing return to fitness exercise regimen. Zone 1 indoor cycling, gentle core work, extremely low weight / high rep resistance training.
Proceeding on a ‘less is more’ mandate in late November (which demands discipline for someone like myself prone to taking everything to the extreme, I just showed up every single morning to do what I could, and stop well before doing more than I should.
Today I am down 35 pounds from November (207 to 171) including a body fat reduction from 20% to 11%. More importantly, I am beginning to feel like myself again. Grateful and hopeful.
I still have a long way to go—it takes 12-18 months for the fusion to fully set. My surgeon was not optimistic that I will be able to run again. Time will tell of course, but I’m confident that provided I continue to proceed patiently that I have a future in which running can become part of my new reality.
Towards that end I have a goal—which is to celebrate my 60th birthday this Fall by participating in the NYC Marathon.
But here’s the thing. I’m not trying to return to who I once was. I’ve leaned into the stillness this experience has demanded of me to become someone new and better.
I am posting this story not for external validation but rather to say that change is always possible. And the way to do it is the same way I have navigated every one of my many life transformations, from alcoholism to sobriety, from sedentary to middle aged ultra endurance athlete, and from a corporate lawyer career to becoming an author and podcaster: getting sober and staying sober: by taking contrary action consistently and religiously—one day at a time.
As Chris Paul said on my podcast, “keep stacking days.”
And remember, every obstacle life presents you is simply an opportunity custom-designed for your growth and evolution.
Based. Simply being an actor in Hollywood is an embarrassment. Crazy how fast reality can change.
Winning an Oscar has become an embarrassment
Very true. It’s a mindset first and experience input second. Eventually it will pickup speed. The good and the bad effects will unfold somewhat similar to the process in the USA.
This is the biggest waste of capital I see in Polish mid-market. And how people like me can help.
I talk to business owners running 10-20m EUR revenue companies every week. Profitable. Growing. Sitting on 5-10m EUR in cash.
And that cash? It's "reinvested back into the company." Meaning it sits on a 5% savings account. Maybe they buy a condohotel in Kołobrzeg.
Meanwhile their market is fragmented. Their competitors are subscale. There are adjacent service companies they could bolt on tomorrow to cross-sell. Higher margin businesses they could acquire to upgrade the portfolio.
The opportunity to consolidate is right there.
But it doesn't happen. And there are real reasons why.
First - the owner is buried in operations. They're running the day-to-day so the business doesn't collapse. Inorganic growth isn't even on the radar when you're firefighting payroll, clients, and delivery every week.
Second - they have zero M&A know-how. Nobody taught them how to run a process, structure a deal, do diligence. It feels like a different world.
Third - and this is the one nobody talks about - they hate their competitors. Personally. They've been fighting them for 15 years. The idea of sitting down at a table with someone they see as an enemy feels wrong.
That's where an ex-PE M&A professional changes everything.
When you put someone like me in the room - someone both sides see as a neutral authority - suddenly the conversation becomes possible. The owner with 10m EUR cash, the acquisition target, and an advisor who knows how to structure and close deals.
I've talked to owners who had acquisition targets in mind for years but never made a move. The deal logic was obvious. What was missing was someone to sit them at the same table.
Polish mid-market has massive consolidation potential. The capital is there. The targets are there. What's missing is the bridge.
Shaping the way for Brussels narratives, unfortunately.
Amazon has announced plans to invest more than €5 billion in Poland between 2026 and 2028, including opening a new logistics centre and creating more local content for the Amazon Prime streaming service https://t.co/17c6XkEII7
Corporate America already understands this labor arbitrage and continues to expand into Poland, for example. It’s been driving this train for years and will continue.
The key point. The country’s not pegged to the EUR benefit and the quickest way to remove labor growth is to convert to the EUR.
Eastern Europe is the most exploitable talent arbitrage on the planet right now and almost nobody in the Western business world is paying attention because they're too busy overpaying for mid work from the Philippines and India…
Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Croatia. Average salaries $500-1,000/month. But the talent coming out of these countries isn't $500/month talent. It's $5,000-8,000/month talent priced at a tenth of what you'd pay in the US because the local economy hasn't caught up to the skill level yet
That gap is the exploit
Every other "hire cheap overseas" conversation defaults to Southeast Asia or South Asia. And sure, the prices are low. But anyone who's actually tried to scale operations in those regions knows the pattern. Language barriers. Cultural disconnect. Equipment issues. Endless training loops. You spend more time managing output than you save in cost. The $4/hour rate sounds nice until you're on revision 14 and the work still isn't usable
Eastern Europe skips all of that
These countries have legitimate university systems. Strong STEM education. English fluency across the entire 18-30 demographic, sometimes better than native speakers in the US (not even joking). They grew up on the same internet, same memes, same cultural references. Zero cultural gap when working with Western businesses. You don't need to explain context. You don't need to translate intent. They just get it
And they have real infrastructure. Laptops. Fast wifi. Proper software. Modern tools. You're not onboarding someone who needs you to walk them through basic setup. You're hiring someone who's already operating at a professional level but happens to live in a country where $1,000/month is a great salary
The applications go way beyond content. Developers in Bucharest building full-stack apps for $1,500/month that would cost you $8-12k from a US agency. Designers in Belgrade producing brand assets at agency quality for $800/month. Sales closers in Sofia running calls in perfect English for $1,000/month plus commission. Media buyers in Warsaw managing $50k+/month ad accounts for $1,200/month. Copywriters, project managers, data analysts, customer support, operations managers. Every single role in your business can be filled from Eastern Europe at 80-90% cost reduction with zero quality drop
The training speed is the real cheat code though. Hand someone in Bucharest a brief on Monday and you get back usable output by Wednesday. Not "needs 6 rounds of feedback" output. Actually usable, deploy-immediately output. The baseline competency is just different when the talent pool is educated, tech-native, and hungry
It's common now for operators running lean businesses to have their entire team in Eastern Europe except themselves. 4-8 people. Total payroll $5-8k/month. Output equivalent to a $40-60k/month US team. The business runs 24/7 because the time zone overlap with the US is actually perfect for async work
(btw it doesn't hurt that Eastern Europe has the baddest bitches on the planet. If you need on-camera talent for any kind of brand content targeting Western audiences, a girl in Sofia or Bucharest is visually indistinguishable from a girl in LA but costs a fraction. The talent pool for that specific use case is bottomless and nobody's tapped it properly yet)
The freelance platforms are the worst place to find these people. The best ones are in local Facebook groups, Telegram channels, and Eastern European Twitter. You DM 50 people, 40 respond within hours because an $800/month retainer is life-changing money and they actually take pride in the work. The talent density is absurd once you know where to look
Today the film I made with @StefanTompson about the Polish anti-communist resistance after World War 2 is being shown at the @ipngovpl_eng Congress for the Memory of the Cursed Soldiers at the Muzeum Żołnierzy Wyklętych i Więźniów Politycznych PRL in Warsaw.
This is the first ever English language documentary on the brave Poles who fought first nazism and then communism and never surrendered!
If you can’t make it today help us show it at a cinema or venue near you.
Thank you very much @ArkadyRzegocki it was a pleasure to talk in depth about promoting Polish heroes.
The film I made with my dear friend @StefanTompson is now being shown at festivals and viewings around the world.
Czas działać!
My father was 65 when I was born. Today he would be 112.
Here’s what having an “old” father actually gave me.
A man who had already lived.
Oxford Rhodes Scholar. Captain of his several sports teams. Squadron Leader in the RAF at 26. An OB/GYN who built a 60-bed hospital in Kingston, Jamaica (his home) and delivered thousands of babies.
But none of that is what shaped me most.
He sang me Old Man River while I fell asleep in his arms every night. Got me up at sunrise to swim Seven Mile Beach where I grew up. Chopped coconuts open for me at breakfast. Taught me to dive, to spear fish, to hold my breath longer than fear.
He didn’t do political correctness. He did conviction, honor and discipline.
When I disappointed him, he didn’t explode. He spoke sternly and I straightened up. Not out of fear. Out of respect.
He was older than most dads. But I never felt shortchanged, I barely noticed. I felt proud to have an older father. I felt protected. Chosen. I felt the gravity of a prolific legacy I still haven’t stopped trying to uphold.
He died when I was 24.
Long enough to imprint me. Not long enough to thank him properly.
If you’re an older man wondering whether it’s too late to build something that lasts… it’s not. A father’s presence echoes far beyond his lifespan.
112 years since he entered the world, 22 since he left, and I still measure myself against his voice.
Happy Birthday, Daddy 💛
This sentence is going on my white board. Love it, as I’ve been contemplating, research this idea of human competition. Where we direct our actions and drive means everything and with old age I’ve concluded the drive to continuously improve, a measure against yourself is everything. It’s focused within but it’s ok to view others and be inspired.
“Every sunrise is another chance to do better!”
This is the way. Think Star Wars and Luke’s healing process in the solution, ultrasound and energy processing. The future.
We are about 1 week out from the first 40hz Ultrasound device being ready
Literally the US-2000 Pro running the precise 40hz "Plaque Clearing" frequency everybody is raving about
You have no idea what's coming - I'm so excited to be building Ultrasound tech
Wow. Very proud to be an American! Congrats guys.
@bennyjohnson Merica!!!!!
Together with my very good friend @StefanTompson we made the first ever English-language documentary about the Polish fight against communist evil after 1945.
A war the world has never heard of.
Appearing at festivals in 2026.
The Battle of Vienna in 1683! Saved Christianity.
The Tomb of Jan Sobieski
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