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regularly publishes articles and gives interviews on venture capital and economical topics. In this capacity, he and two other members authored a position paper to support IPOs in
Germany in July 2021 calling for the "disciplining of the press" to give a fair and balanced opinion, which led to fierce criticism. Due to the accusations of having the intention to restrict the freedom of the press, Gerlinger resigned from the advisory board of the 'Young Digital Economy'. In the wake of the incident, the German weekly business news magazine
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should intervene to prevent what it termed “IPO and new-economy bashing” by the media. The proposal was met with widespread criticism, including from the German
Journalists Association and Economics Minister Peter Altmaier, who ordered the paper’s removal from the ministry’s website. Gerlinger, one of the authors of the report, pitched it as a story to the German newspaper, Handelsblatt.
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Infogrames Deutschland GmbH (2002). In early 2005, Gerlinger founded the MMO Games Publisher Frogster Interactive Pictures AG in Berlin. He was Frogster's long standing CEO and worked with the team during its critical growth phases. He left Frogster at the end of 2011 after
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Gerlinger was appointed external expert of the network 'Digitalization' and a member of the digital commission by the federal board of the CDU. The
Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy has appointed Christoph as an advisory board member of 'Young Digital Economy' in 2020. Gerlinger
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