Interviewed by
Julia Schriever
Jan Rabe, 39, studied physics in Munich. “You study physics if you want to understand the world,” he says. But he didn’t just want to understand them, he also wanted to change them a bit. After some time in the financial sector, he worked in energy trading at an international energy company in Switzerland. He did a master’s degree in sustainable development at the University of Madrid and then founded a company with Maximilian Both to promote the energy transition. They buy and sell electricity, developed a complicated algorithm for this, and came up with strategies. And of course a good start-up needs a good name. “There were two uncreative physicists who couldn’t agree on a name,” says Jan Rabe. In the end, they simply put their Rabe and Both surnames together, resulting in: Rabot.Charge.