After
Elias' Colombian mother immigrated into a village in the Austrian alps,
Elias started his first e-commerce business at the age of 14 from a Facebook
group and built his first online-shop. Soon after he dropped out of high
school at the age of 17 to fully pursue his venture at the time, Nessential
AG with his Co-Founder. Within 2 years, Nessential became the second-largest
online multi-brand retailer for supplements in Switzerland
(mid-seven-figures revenue) by pioneering progressive Social Media- and
Influencer Marketing, before the term was born.
Nessential’s
marketings approach paved the way in the DACH region for many similarly
marketed companies afterward and had the youngest average age in DACH across
it’s board members with an average age of 20 years.
Elias quickly
gained a lot of visibility in the German speaking E-Commerce industry due to
coverage of his work by industry experts, well-known E-Commerce analysts and
several highly-relevant podcasts within the German startup
ecosystem.
While working on different brands and ideas
simultaneously, Elias started to work as Founding Team Consultant and was
part of several highly successful D2C cases in DACH spearheading marketing
efforts and executing category-leading strategies on
Social.
Built on the back of this operational experience,
MOONBASE is trusted by category-leading firms such as Amazon, Mercedes AMG,
Gymshark and others with multi-million euro budgets.
In its flagship
HQ above the shops of Apple & Tesla in Berlin, Elias oversees a team
of 25+ algorithm-whisperers at the core of Social Disruption. After only 3
years, MOONBASE is one of the few leading Social-Media specialized marketing
agencies in DACH and a marketing partner of Facebook and
TikTok.
Since 2019, Elias has started reinvesting the profits
from his earlier ventures and time as a founding-team consultant back into
the startup-ecosystem. His investment vehicle Vides Holding GmbH (vides-holding.com) invests
€50k tickets as angel investment in companies that are at the forefront of
innovation in Social, E-Commerce and SaaS.
Elias also serves as
an Entrepreneur Partner at the Digital Consultancy E-Tribes, which now
already counts a team of over 100 digital experts. Elias is also a verified
member of Leaders For Climate Action and a member of the Forbes Agency
Council since 2020.
Elias has been interviewed by the “Who is
Who” of the DACH E-Commerce scene, has appeared as a keynote speaker at
leading EMEA marketing fairs such as DMEXCO, Internet World, Digital
Commerce Day and others, appears in Podcasts, acts as Angel Investor,
Advisor, Beirat & Sparring Partner.
Read about Elias’ story.
elias videsfounder at moonbaseinstagram.com/elias | @elias
berlin, germany
KNOWN FROM
PODCASTS & TALKS
Internet World (2019)
Alexander Graf & Elias Vides: Mobile first vs. Instagram: Wo und wie verkauft man heute?
#POL: Let’s talk about the Future (2019)
Keynote: How progressive players win in Social Commerce
Kassenzone (2019)
Alexander Graf & Elias Vides: #K212 Wie konnte Gymshark so groß werden und warum kann die Deutsche Post kein Instagram?
Internet World (2019)
Alexander Graf & Elias Vides: Mobile first vs. Instagram: Wo und wie verkauft man heute?
#POL: Let’s talk about the Future (2019)
Keynote: How progressive players win in Social Commerce
Kassenzone (2019)
Alexander Graf & Elias Vides: #K212 Wie konnte Gymshark so groß werden und warum kann die Deutsche Post kein Instagram?
PRESS
Die Welt am Sonntag (2020)
COVID Discussion with Rita Süssmuth, ex-Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health as well as President of the German Bundestag for nearly 10 years
Business Insider (2020)
Vom Bastler zum Millionär: Dieser Gründer hatte bereits drei Unternehmen, ging insolvent und arbeitet heute für Amazon Daimler und Depot, dabei ist er erst 23
Styla Experience Keynote (2019)
Alexander Graf & Elias Vides: Coming of Age - Get ready for Gen Z!
Kassenzone (2019)
Wie konnte Gymshark so groß werden und warum kann die deutsche Post kein Instagram?
Die Welt am Sonntag (2020)
COVID Discussion with Rita Süssmuth, ex-Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health as well as President of the German Bundestag for nearly 10 years
Business Insider (2020)
Vom Bastler zum Millionär: Dieser Gründer hatte bereits drei Unternehmen, ging insolvent und arbeitet heute für Amazon Daimler und Depot, dabei ist er erst 23
Styla Experience Keynote (2019)
Alexander Graf & Elias Vides: Coming of Age - Get ready for Gen Z!
Kassenzone (2019)
Wie konnte Gymshark so groß werden und warum kann die deutsche Post kein Instagram?
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