Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc
By Calin Fabri | Entrepreneur | Advisor
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personal conversations with the entrepreneurs and investors creating a future worth getting excited about
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Salar al Khafaji - Autonomous on-site construction robots, Construction ~10-15% of GDP but low productivity, How affordability affects fertility rates, Learnings from selling his startup to Palantir
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Construction Market - Deep-dive
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Mary Meeker - AI Trends
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Jan-Hendrick Boelens - Air-to-air counter-drone system, Defending Europe, Why Europe needs a single defense market, The constrains in the supply chain and dependencies on China
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May 29, 2025 |
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Europe's Defense Transformation: Spending, Policy, and Investment Opportunities
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May 28, 2025 |
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AI - History, Trends and Opportunities
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May 25, 2025 |
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Sebastian Hjärne - From prompt to hire, Recycling tennis balls, The search engine for talent, Raising funds from the Swedish Tech Mafia
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May 22, 2025 |
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A Deep Dive into the Global Recruitment Market, The $2 Trillion Projected Global Staffing & Recruitment Market Value by 2031, The Future of Talent Acquisition
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May 21, 2025 |
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Jakob Sons - Starting a Medical Cannabis startup, Quitting the lawyer career, Making Eur 35M in 2024, The hyper-personalisation trend and diversifying from flower
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May 15, 2025 |
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Deep-dive: European Medical Cannabis, Market Size, Trends, Regulation
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May 13, 2025 |
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Stress-free productivity, The Bible of personal organisation, Productivity is directly proportional with the ability to relax
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May 02, 2025 |
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Ioan Iacob - The meeting with Revolut that influenced the founding of FlowX, Raising Eur 30M led by Dawn Capital, Why the Ego is the enemy of the founder
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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2025 FinTech Trends: AI Agents, The $100T wealth transfer, Stablecoins and the resurgence of B2C FinTech
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Mastering the Inner Game for Peak Performance, Creating Harmony between Self 1 (Teller) and Self 2 (Doer)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Dirk Sahlmer - Bootstrapped founders VS VC backed founders, Maximising your wealth when starting or selling your business, 3 mistakes founders make when selling
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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State of European Tech - Stats about the last decade and Hans Rosling, Mario Draghi Report, ASML and EU inc proposal and the Vision about the future of the region
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Daria Saharova - Pairing the climate performance potential with the venture capital model, Raising Eur 300M the biggest first time fund in Germany, The importance of understanding the VC mechanics
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Christian Rebernik - First accredited edtech scale-up in Europe, Challenging the status quo in education, Creating 1M change-makers and the Importance of purpose
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Anna Brandt - Learnings from acquiring talent at Uber, Zalando, Mollie and N26, Linking business strategy with Headcount Plan and the Trade-off between speed, quality and cost when recruiting
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Winston Churchill - Fifty Years Hence
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Tatiana Shalalvand - The capabilities as a multi-stage fund, Impressing founders with knowledge, Investing in Aira and Travelperk
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Pär-Jörgen Pärson - Recognising Outliers, Good VCs VS Great VCs, Building Northzone, Changing the narrative for European tech, Giving back, Learning from heavy-metal to build customer and team love
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Vadim Fedotov - Hyper-personalised Supplements, Why Cristiano Ronaldo started using it in 2022 and then invested, Building a high-performing team, The future of personalised wellness
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Machines of Loving Grace - Essay review of Dario's Amodei, CEO of Anthropic
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Max Junestrand - Raising $35M in 6 months, Mapping pain points and using Aha! moments, Choosing Benchmark as a lead investor, Empowering Lawyers
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Daniel Keiper-Knorr - Speed and direction, Gap and the growth stages, Working with weird and exceptional people, The need for specialisation when scaling and the magic slide
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead - A review about how Ralph Stayer changed the way he lead to empower workers and improve efficiency
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Casper Heningsen - Agentic AI for consumer research, Snuggle with the customer to reach $10M ARR, The need for domain mastery, Focus on the inputs and the outcome will follow
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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James Regan - Raising $35M to build Networks of AI chips with Photonic Integrated Circuits, Training LLMs 100x faster while reducing AI energy consumption, AI electricity demands by 2030
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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John Rush - $400k ARR with 6 projects while bootstrapping, Going out of cash with a VC-backed startup and pivoting, Moving to a tax friendly country, The sovereign individual
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Thomas von der Ohe - Bridging the gap to full autonomy, Quitting a cushy job to start a startup, Embodied learning, The market opportunities in the more than $1T self-driving car industry
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Anton Osika - Idea to app in seconds, The last piece of software, The YC hype, How to have a successful fundraise, Machine intelligence becomes more capable than human intelligence
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Walter Ballheimer - Sending satellites into space, The CubeSats revolution, Different types of satellites, The space-tech market
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Christian Vollmann - Building the first of a kind green methanol plant, Learnings from building and selling multiple digital businesses and the importance of Mental Health for entrepreneurs
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Colin Hanna - Competing as a team, Being adaptable, Time at Soundcloud, Getting in to the zone, Meditation, Assessing founders and investments, The partnership between an investor and a founder
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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George Henry - Most successful investor in unicorns at seed stage, Learning velocity, Having a compelling vision, Taking more risks
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Lukas Saari - AI copilot for healthcare practitioners, Raising $10M seed round in 8 months, The administrative burden and the future of Healthcare
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Florian Brand - MDMA and DMT trials, Raising $400M from Peter Thiel and other investors, Difficulties of bringing a drug to market, The journey of increasing self-awareness
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Michael Lazarenko - 350 meetings to raise pre-seed round, The effects of the war in Ukraine, Gearing to raise Seed, The importance of Storytelling, The $140B electronics R&D market
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Alexandre Momeni - Investing in founders with a sense of urgency, The future of brain machine interface, Paris VS London, Product Market Fit as a spectrum, Opportunities in healthcare in Europe
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Robert Jäckle - Finding and investing in talent, The path to €600M AuM in 5 years, The correlation between risk and success, Surrounding yourself with driven and ambitious people
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Aleksander Larsen - $1.3B revenue, North Korean hack, From the hottest company in web3 to being called a scam, Building digital nations, Competing with Visa
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Annie Duke - Decision Science, Frameworks for entrepreneurs on how to decide, Mental time travel, The monkey on the pedestal, Decision quality VS Outcome quality, Thinking in Bets
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May 21, 2024 |
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Oliver Holle - From an angel fund to 1B AuM, Building specialized teams to support founders, Starting a company in the 90s VS today
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May 14, 2024 |
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Carmen Alfonso Rico - Investing in killers with a heart, The right to a secret, Co-founder relationships, Finding your superpower and win-win situations
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May 07, 2024 |
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Bernt Bornich - Androids for the worlds labor demands, Raising > Eur 100M from EQT and OpenAI fund, Building softness in robots, Embodied learning and AGI
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Kaushik Subramanian - Learnings from building products at Meta and Stripe, Extreme focus on the user problem, User first mentality, Choosing your design partners
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Julius Bachmann - Coaching entrepreneurs, The ups and downs of entrepreneurship and the importance of finding a support system
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Nicole Paulk - The evolution of modern medicine, 4h sleep cycle, Tackling cancer with gene therapy, Leaving academia and starting a business, Programming cells
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Bharat Vasan - Consumer Tech, Ozempic - the miracle drug, Assessing founders for grit bias to action and the ability to tell a story
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Bjarne Kveim Lie - The status at growth stage, Eur 5B committed, 140 investments, Growth > FCF, Dr Alban and the asymmetric risk-reward ratio
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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James Currier - Built and sold $10B worth of companies between NfX founders, Being a 5x Founder and 2 key elements for success, Designing for the white-hot center, Choosing a life partner
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Zeynep Yavuz - From ideation to IPO, Thematic Investor, Assessing first time entrepreneurs, Fintech and Crypto
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Chris Smith - The state of Pre-seed investing, Fundraising process, Intuition VS Investment Memo, The importance of hard work
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Rex Woodbury - Consumer behaviour and techtonic shifts, Social Media 3.0, Pre-seed investing and being true to yourself
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Kirsty Grant - £2.6B through Crowdfunding, The new equity market, End-to-end infrastructure to fundraise for investors and founders across stages
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Mark Kugel - Winning contracts with NASA, Creating biotech assets in space, The CDTM effect, Germany's PR problem
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Francesco Sciortino - Making fusion a reality, The promise of the Stellarator, The competitive advantage of Europe
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Mikkel Skarnager - ~50m Eur exit to Trulioo, Building the next company, Advice for first time entrepreneurs, Normalizing the ups and downs
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Fredrik Cassel - Creandum's culture, Investing in several iconic companies, The new mega trends, Finding user love
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Jevan Nagarajah - Precision fermentation, Dealing with co-founder break-up, Raising > 20m Eur for deep tech startup, Learning to take risks
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Mars Geuze - From building racing cars to winning SpaceX Hyperloop contest, The challenges in building infrastructure, The importance of enjoying the journey
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Antoine Moyroud - Commitment to Europe, The Eur 105M seed investment in Mistral AI, From failing Class Preparatoire to becoming a partner at Lightspeed
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Andre Retterath - Data-driven VC, Tracking 10M talents, From analyst to partner, Eagle-eye platform, Building sustainable defensibility
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Michel Elings - Selling the company to Apple, Moving to Cupertino, Building products used by millions, Cultural differences, Surround yourself with people that believe in you
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Jakob Sons - Cannabis startup in the highly regulated German market, Raising $15m round from Snoopp Dogg's Casa Verde Capital, Reaching 20m Euro run rate and Building a European category leader
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Andreas Helbig - Extreme product market fit, Investment criteria at Atomico, The journey from junior analyst to partner, The importance of culture and a healthy hustle
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Kajetan von Armansperg - Founding story of Leapsome, Tackling culture, Bootstrapping to 10M ARR then raising 60M Series A, Opening an office in the U.S., Money as a taboo topic
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Nathan Benaich - The State of AI, Transformer models across data sets, What does an AI startup look like, Obama's cloned voice, AI as the magic editing wand, The AI brain drain
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May 23, 2023 |
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Alex MacCaw - From 50M ARR B2B SaaS to 20k MRR B2C, Hacking the first sales, The beauty of mom-and-pop tech shops, Stepping down as a CEO, Relationship with money
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May 11, 2023 |
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David Friedberg - The founding story of The Climate Corporation and the exit to Monsanto for $1.1B, High bias to action, The Production Board and reimagining earth, The coming era of abundance
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May 01, 2023 |
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Lina Chong - Leaving U.S. for Europe, Berlin calling, Studying philosophy, Surrounding yourself with excellent people, Assessing startups, Overcoming challenging periods
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Koen Thijssen - Raising $16M Series A, Rocket Internet Mafia, Going from 0 to 1 in the insurance industry, Stick to the plan regardless of market volatility, Why you hardly overpay for the best people
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Stef van Grieken - Moonshots projects at Google, Assessing the risk of starting a start-up, Falling in love with biology, Why we need more definite optimists Europeans
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Eric Lagier - Founding byFounders and the Nordic pledge to pay it forward, The journey to San Francisco and the exit with Memolane, and Erics' tattoo - Muditā - the pleasure in seeing others succeed
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Filip Dames - Founding Cherry Ventures, Learnings from startup to IPO with Zalando, Making the first million and the importance of doing More of what you love
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Sabina Wizander - The journey from 20-1000 employees and from 0-150M EUR with the healthcare startup KRY, The pursuit of work life balance, and The excitement for the Energy market
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Julian Kley - From preparing to become a heart surgeon to COO, Learning to trust your intuition, The importance of continuous and instant feedback, Founding AVI Medical, The future of Healthcare
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Alfonso Peccatiello - The effect of high interest rates on the economy, The probability of a recession, Europe position in the changing world order, Strategies to protect capital
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Francesco Simoneschi - Raising $130m at the top of the market, The banking API revolution, The opportunity in payments, Founding TrueLayer, Learning to unplug
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Joel Nordström - Raising €5M Seed in a frozen market for Atlar, The journey with Tink from employee #12 to the sell to Visa for $2.2B, and hustling your way and get your dream job while at uni
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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David Heinemeier Hansson - Learnings from working remote for the last 20 years, Creating Ruby on Rails, Bootstrapping, Define success, Startups
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Kerry Murphy - The marketsize for digital fashion, how fashion is part of our identity and the future of the Metaverse despite market turmoil
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Sebastian Pollok - Why Europe needs to wake up, why it's all about the people and their fresh Eur 400m across 3 funds to support B2B SaaS early and growth and science-driven moonshots
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Julien Codorniou - The journey with FB (Meta) from 500m users to IPO, assessing teams and angel investing and the consumerization of IT
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Michel D. Traore - The clear case for NFTs in the $30B music streaming market
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Timmu Tõke - Raising from a16z, finding product market fit and building for the metaverse
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Daniel & Dorin - How to raise Eur 10M in 10 months
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Xavier Collins - You get what you measure
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Tony Jamous - How to hire a high performing team
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Judith Dada - Defining your mission. For Whom and For What?
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Anthony Danon - FinTech is eating the world
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Nina Achadjian - Vertical SaaS
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Ulric Musset - Liberation Capital
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Andrei Brasoveanu - Prepared mind
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May 31, 2022 |
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Hannah Seal - Future of Work
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May 08, 2022 |
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Henrik Landgren - How to implement a data-driven culture
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Eléonore Crespo - Doer till the IPO
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Sebastian Mallaby - The Power Law
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Ophelia Brown - High-conviction investing
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Roland Manger - Cohesion and autonomy
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Kyle Samani - Decentralised
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Mathias Ockenfels - Network effects
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Paul Murphy - Fuck it, ship it!
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Matt Miller - In pursuit of 'world-class'
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Karl Munthe-Kaas - Happy, but never satisfied
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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Johan Brand - Building Kahoot!
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Jacqueline van den Ende - It is not the critic who counts; but the "entrepreneur" who is actually in the arena
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May 24, 2021 |
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Patrick Meutzner - High-growth and mental health
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Saul Klein - The changes in the landscape since 1995 in the VC ecosystem in Europe and the requirement of practical science fiction when they invest in teams at seed stage
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Apr 01, 2021 |