Jan-Philipp Martini 🇩🇪
- 2025
- Mar 22
- 5 min read
Updated: Jun 10
''My business is my life, And my life is my business''
Jan-Philipp is the Founder of Sapiens - Shaping The Industry Of High Performing Jobs While Transitioning Into A Place Where Health And Performance Go Hand In Hand. He has taken the challenge to answer our 20 Truth Questions, For us to gain some insight, And learn the Truth about the person behind the venture.
My TRUTH Story:
1. INTRODUCE YOURSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON TO A CROWD OF 10,000+ PEOPLE?
Jan-Philipp is the founder & CEO of a stress diagnostics and human performance company called Sapiens.
He worked with 7000 high achievers and executives from top-tier consultancies, investment banks and fast growing startups to support them in reducing stress and enhancing their performance.
Sapiens is a team of neuroscientists, medical doctors and performance scientists offering cutting-edge stress diagnostics using hair steroid/cortisol analysis, saliva cortisol profiles, ECG monitoring and blood tests to identify what's anchoring peoples health and performance.
Before founding Sapiens he worked in leadership development at Boston Consulting Group, with a background in engineering and now studies functional medicine.
2. WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF A TRUTH FOUNDER?
A truth Founder is someone who turns their own story into a company.
Sapiens was built based on my own experience with a chronic disease after a stressful period working as a consultant.
I built the company to support what I had wished i had known earlier.
3. WHAT EVENT OR EVENTS HAPPENED TO YOU THAT INSPIRED YOU TO BECOME A FOUNDER?
Being diagnosed with A type 1 diabetes after a really stressful period in my life.
4. WHAT IS YOUR MORNING ROUTINE & RITUAL? Meditation + Exercise + Going outside for a walk.
5. WHAT MANTRA,QUOTE,LINE OR PHRASE DO YOU SAY OFTEN TO INSPIRE AND MOTIVATE YOURSELF? Don't settle until you have found your path.
6. WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE SHOULD CARE ABOUT YOUR VENTURE? Stress is involved in 60-80% of doctor visits.
In our target group (people in high performing jobs), it is potentially the number one issue that drives shortened healthspans.
Stress is upstream of many suboptimal health routines.
7. WHY DO YOU THINK YOU ARE THE ONE TO MAKE YOUR VENTURE A SUCCESS?
Sapiens is an expression of my own story, and my personal history in long-term meditation retreats. I have worked in the shoes of my target audience as a consultant at BCG, And have a personal disease history that i battle every day which has inspired me to start studying medicine.
8. WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE FOR YOUR VENTURE? ( START WITH: IMAGINE A WORLD... WHAT IF... WE WILL BE... )
Currently, in intense jobs health is still traded for short-term work performance.
We shape the industry of high performing jobs and help make the transition to a place where health and performance go hand in hand.
9. ANSWER THESE AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIKE - I BELIEVE... I DON'T BELIEVE... I believe health and performance go hand in hand. You cannot have the one without the other. People need data, human support and understanding and continuous repition to build healthy habits.
10. WHAT'S ONE DECISION YOU MADE AS A FOUNDER THAT COMPLETELY CHANGED THE COURSE OF YOUR JOURNEY? No longer waiting for the perfect opportunity to found a company. I started the venture when I had little money in my bank accont and when our son was born.
But emotionally I was totally ready.
11. WHAT DO YOU REGARD AS YOUR GREATEST SUCCESS PERSONALLY & AS A FOUNDER? To have started a company. Usually I was hesitating too long, yet i overcame my hesitation eventually which I am proud about today.
12. WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOURSELF AND WHY? My pragmatism and a drive to take action.
Also, that my business is my life and my life is my business.
13. WHAT'S ONE THING YOU CAN IMPROVE ABOUT YOURSELF, AND WHY DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE NOT DONE IT BY NOW?
Reducing my impulsivity and taking a brief longer moment to think before taking action.
I haven't acted on this yet because it is the other side of the coin of my strength.
14. WHAT'S THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE YOU'VE EVER RECEIVED OR GIVEN, OR BOTH?
The man who thinks he can and the man you thinks he can not are both usually right.
15. ON A SCALE FROM 1 TO 10 - 10 BEING THE BEST. HOW WELL DO YOU THINK YOU AND YOUR TRUTH STORY IS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD BY YOUR COMMUNITY? ( WHY NOT 10? ) 10
16. WHO DO YOU MOST ADMIRE AND WHY?
My partner Luka. She built her company completely out of passion and just expresses who she is with it.
17. DESCRIBE YOUR VENTURE - ELEVATOR PITCH STYLE?
Sapiens supports people with intense jobs to enhance performance and reduce stress (e.g., chronic stress by -22% after 6 months as measured by hair cortisol analysis with a group of consultants).
We offer stress & health diagnostics, team workshops on energy management, 1:1 coaching and expert support on 5 areas: Recovery/Sleep, Self-Regulation, Calendar Management, Nutrition and Exercise.
While we are a performance company, we aren’t pushing relentless self-optimization. Instead, we have experienced that there is a road to sustainable human performance which leads through body literacy and synchronizing with ones biology (vs. working against it).
18. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT MISSION STATEMENT OR MESSAGE + MARKET FIT FOR YOUR VENTURE?
Perform Better With Less Stress.
19. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO TO UNWIND AFTER A LONG WORK DAY?
Mediate. Run, And spend time outdoors with Family.
20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU TREATED YOURSELF TO AND WHAT DID YOU CELEBRATE? I took 3 weeks off for a retreat last summer in the forest. Alone with no input. After that my creativity soared.
BONUS QUESTION: WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPORTING YOU ON YOUR AMBITIOUS JOURNEY?Â
Thank you for supporting me and accepting my narrow focus in this time of venture building.
Become Our Next Truth Founder Today: - FREE To Submit & Be Published
Audience and Reach:
Reach: 17,000+ Subscribers & growing.
Co-Found Events: 250 - 300 People.
Audience: Entrepreneurs, Creators, Early Adopters.
Job Titles: Founder, CEO, and Business Owner.
Average e-mail open rate: 55%
GREAT NEWS: You Don't Have To Do It Alone. - This Is Your invitation for us to answer your Truth Questions Together.
Request Your Invitation: HERE
Get The Latest Founder Interviews Direct To Your Inbox!
Join Over 17,000+ Subscribers To Our Truth Founders Newsletter, Where we send you Founder interviews Direct To Your Inbox; For you to get insight, And learn the Truth about the person behind the venture from 20 Truth Questions Founders answer, For the chance to have their profiles and stories published on our site & newsletter.
Â
MY CONTENT:
