Business Stand Up by Oskar Hartmann at Zabeel Theatre in Dubai

This is not a motivational show with applause breaks and catchphrases like “You can do anything.” It’s an honest, unfiltered, and at times provocative conversation with those who live at full speed — building, failing, growing, and building again. Companies. Relationships. Themselves.

On stage: Oskar Hartmann — entrepreneur, investor, ranked among the world’s Top-18 business angels, father of four, a man who has built dozens of major businesses, endured equally public failures, and learned to keep his sense of humor through both.

This stand-up has no polished diagrams, no pitch decks, no slides packed with KPIs. Instead, it offers reflections on how not to burn out when you’re truly on fire for what you do. How to stay balanced when everything spins out of control — and it happens to fall on your one day off in five years. And how to make the right business decisions when you were raised by a German grandmother.

First, you laugh. Then you reflect. And finally, you walk out with ideas that can genuinely change your life.