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The “Know What You See” podcast delves into the ways our fundamental need to connect with others profoundly shapes our experience of life. On each episode, through conversations with experts and people just trying to make sense of it all, Brian Lowery takes a journey of exploration—answering and raising questions to deepen our understanding of and appreciation for the often surprising, sometimes perplexing, and now and then transcendent lives we create together.
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Sisällön tarjoaa Calin Fabri | Entrepreneur | Founder Coach. Calin Fabri | Entrepreneur | Founder Coach tai sen podcast-alustan kumppani lataa ja toimittaa kaiken podcast-sisällön, mukaan lukien jaksot, grafiikat ja podcast-kuvaukset. Jos uskot jonkun käyttävän tekijänoikeudella suojattua teostasi ilman lupaasi, voit seurata tässä https://fi.player.fm/legal kuvattua prosessia.
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1 Max Junestrand - Raising $35M in 6 months, Mapping pain points and using Aha! moments, Choosing Benchmark as a lead investor, Empowering Lawyers 31:08
Max Junestrand - CEO and co-founder of Legora . They recently raised $35M from investors including Benchmark and Redpoint to empower exceptional lawyers everywhere through collaborative AI. With a team of engineers and lawyers from Google, Microsoft, McKinsey, and top law firms, Legora curently serves several thousands users across 200 clients in 15 countries, including some of the world's largest and most prestigious law firms. The team has scaled from 10 to 60 in 9 months – and they have opened up new offices in London and NYC to complement the HQ in Stockholm. During this episode we discuss how they initially got rejected by YC and how they made their way back to get accepted, how they cleverly mapped the pain points and potential aha moments for specific roles of their customer segment and why they chose Benchmark as a lead investor. Enjoy!…
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1 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 24:45
Daniel Keiper-Knorr - one of the co-founders and Managing partners at SpeedInvest , a leading European early stage VC. Daniel role is capital formation, capital markets and investor relations. Starting in 2011 as an angel fund, today Speedinvest is a 1B euro European powerhouse investing in startups at the earliest phases. With 5 specialized investment teams with 40+ investment managers they offer founders a deep understanding of their space and a broad network in their target industries. Some of their flagship investments include wefox, schüttflix, goStudent, coachhub and primer. During this episode we discuss why every deck has a magic slide, why we don’t have more growth funds in Europe and the mechanics that prevent VCs from innovating. Enjoy!…
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1 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 26:27
Ralph Stayer, CEO of Johnsonville Sausage, recounts his journey of transforming the company by empowering employees and distributing decision-making. Initially, Stayer felt burdened by the need to control every aspect of the business, leading to disengaged employees and missed opportunities. He recognized the need to shift from an authoritarian style to one where employees embraced responsibility. Stayer describes the challenges of implementing changes to the systems and structure within the company so that teams took over the function of many management roles. This included handing over quality control, personnel, and even strategic decisions to teams of workers, resulting in improved performance and a more engaged workforce. Stayer's experience highlights the importance of fostering a culture of learning, shared responsibility, and continuous improvement, a culture that ultimately redefined his role within the company. Link to essay: https://hbr.org/1990/11/how-i-learned-to-let-my-workers-lead…
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1 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 39:55
Casper Henningsen - co-founder and CEO of GetWhy - The Agentic AI for Consumer Research. At GetWhy they obsess over finding the why and provide end-to-end consumer research for marketing and insights teams. They unlock empathy at scale to drive smarter, more precise decisions and transform insights from a bottleneck into an enterprise capability. They recently raised $34M dollars Series A, one of the biggest series A in the Nordics to unlock growth. During this episode we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the current hype in AI, how they almost ran out of money while figuring out what data set to focus on and why you should design your org chart by reverse engineering from customer problems. Enjoy!…
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1 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 33:25
James Regan, founder and CEO of Oriole Networks . Oriole Networks solves AI’s biggest challenges – speed, latency and sustainability. They use light, via advanced photonics technology, to create networks of AI chips and combine their processing power. With this novel approach, LLMs can be trained up to a 100x faster, whilst consuming a fraction of power, allowing algorithms to run with much lower latency. Oriole’s technology dramatically reduces the energy consumption of AI data centres which is putting a huge strain on energy grids and it is predicted to account for 15-25% of new electricity demand by 2030. They have recently raised a $22M Series A round led by Plural to accelerate growth, expanding the team and engaging with high-volume suppliers. During this episode we discuss about how photonics work, James background and the inefficiencies in the current AI data centers. Enjoy!…
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1 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 44:04
John Rush - Bootstrapper of more than 20 projects with 6 of them with $400k ARR and previously a co-founder and CTO of the VC-backed company Filmgrail. After following the investor advice to raise a Series A and expand the market, they almost ran out of cash and went bankrupt. They had to give up the unicorn dream and pivot into a regular midsize profitable business. After this learning John is a strong advocate of bootstrapping having currently more than 20 projects while enjoying more free time for his hobbies and family. You can check his projects at johnrush.me In this episode we discuss why not all ideas should raise venture capital, why he moved from Norway to Turkey and the 3 years tax free visa program and why Europe needs more bootstrappers. Enjoy!…
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1 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 40:53
Vay is one of Europe’s best funded startups in the mobility industry with almost $150M raised to date, from top tier investors like Atomico, Creandum and Kinnevik among others and Thomas the co-founder and CEO is here with us today, tuning in from Las Vegas to tell us more about his journey. Vay pursues a different approach to the likes of Waymo, which is “remote driving”. Remote driving is the most affordable door-to-door mobility service and you will learn why and how it works during the episode. Prior to founding Vay, Thomas spent six years in Silicon Valley, where he launched Zoox's first self-driving vehicle on public streets. Zoox was bought in 2020 by Amazon for $1.2B according to Dealroom. Thomas was also part of launching Amazon's first Echo in leading Technical Program Manager positions. During this episode we discuss the advantages of remote driving when it comes to safety, the market opportunities in the more than $1T driverless car industry, and why Elon Musk has announced to also focus on remote driving at Tesla pointing to the benefits of embodied learning. Enjoy!…
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1 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 29:20
Anton Osika - co-founder and CEO of Lovable . With Lovable you can go from an Idea to app in seconds. It functions like your superhuman full stack engineer. Anton has a remarkable story in the startup world. He was the a founding member of several multimillion dollar startups. One, Sana Labs that recently raised $55m lead by NEA bringing the total raise to ~$130m, he was also a founding engineer of Depict which raised ~$20m and now his latest venture - Lovable where they raised ~$7m pre-seed round in October this year. During this episode we discuss about why now we are in the most transformational years in human history where machine intelligence become more capable than human intelligence, how you can get motivated when someone argues against you and how to run a successful fundraise. Enjoy…
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1 Walter Ballheimer - Sending satellites into space, The CubeSats revolution, Different types of satellites, The space-tech market 32:27
Walter Ballheimer - founder and CEO of Reflex Aerospace . The first venture backed satellite manufacturer in Europe. They have raised ~15m Euros to design and build mass customised satellites to send into space. Prior to founding Reflex Space he founded Germany’s first CubeSat Start-Up – “German Orbital Systems”. To date, the company has built and launched more than eleven satellites. During this episode we discuss about the different types of satellites, the space tech market and and the split on value capture between upstream and downstream. Enjoy!…
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1 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 39:47
Christian Vollmann - founder and CEO of Carbon One . Founded in 2022 they have raised approximately $14M to date with the mission to lower the green premium on green methanol and thus reduce the world’s dependency on oil, gas and coal. Their aim is to establish circular carbon economies in three hard-to-abate industries: container shipping, aviation and chemical production. Prior to founding Carbon One, Christian has built, sold and IPO-ed multiple business. First one, called iLove for his mentor Oliver Samwer where he built the business from scratch, up to Eur 25M Revenue while forgetting to get some equity in the business, ouch The second one MyVideo, which was one of the leading video platforms back then in Germany and France that he sold to ProSieben The third one was eDarling. They built a matchmaking business running 15 brands in 20 countries having revenue in 12 different currencies. They listed that on the New York stock exchange. And the forth one nebenan.de the largest social network for neighbours in Germany with around 3m active users. Such a hustler! During this episode we discuss about his learnings in building multiple consumer businesses, the motivation to start Carbon One and the mental struggles that an entrepreneur is usually faced with and some suggestions on how to deal with it. Enjoy!…
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1 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 25:28
Colin Hanna - Partner at Balderton Capital . Balderton is multi-stage venture firm with over twenty years of expertise in aiding European founders from the initial seed stage through to IPO. According to Dealroom they have invested in over 30 companies valued at over a billion euros - among them Revolut, Sinch and Waye among many others. Recently they’ve raised $1.3 billion, divided into a $615 million early-stage fund and a $685 million growth fund for more mature companies. The capital will be used to support emerging technology companies across Europe. At Balderton, Colin invests in purpose-driven, product-focused founders spanning verticals including Cloud, Consumer, Crypto, and Fintech. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in New York where he focused on raising capital for Asian internet companies, including Tencent, Nexon, and Tarena among others. During this episode we discuss about his competitive swimming period from Princeton, the open-source movement and the crypto market. Enjoy!…
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1 George Henry - Most successful investor in unicorns at seed stage, Learning velocity, Having a compelling vision, Taking more risks 34:33
George Henry - General Partner at LocalGlobe - the seed fund which is according to Dealroom figures, EMEA’s most successful investor in unicorns at seed stage. LocalGlobe invests across Europe and some of its notable investments include Wise, Improbable, Motorway, Tide and Automata. George himself focuses on finding the next generation of industry-transforming businesses to serve two over-looked sectors: the creative economy and SMEs. His investments range across several sectors and include some of Europe’s fastest growing companies - Qogita, Rekki, Sorare, Taster and Travelperk. During this episode we discuss about learning velocity, the importance of having a compelling vision and taking risk. Enjoy!…
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1 Lukas Saari - AI copilot for healthcare practitioners, Raising $10M seed round in 8 months, The administrative burden and the future of Healthcare 35:09
Lukas Saari - CEO and Co-founder of Tandem Health . Tandem is building an AI co-pilot for healthcare practitioners. Their first product is an ambient scribe that listens during the patient-doctor consultation, transcribes the conversation and generates the draft of the medical note. They were founded only 1 year ago, and recently closed a ~$10M seed round, led by Northzone, to accelerate their expansion from Sweden to across Europe. Before Tandem, Lukas has worked at Spotify with machine learning and has been the leader of McKinsey's Healthcare Analytics practice in the Nordics. During this episode we discuss why AI is the internet moment of our generation and why founders should take advantage of it, we touch on the cost and the administrative burden in healthcare and how Tandem solves that and how to go about validating a pain point and raise money from investors. Enjoy!…
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1 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 28:41
Florian Brand co-founder and Co-CEO of ATAI Life Sciences . ATAI was founded in 2018 and is a global, listed, biopharma company with the vision to heal mental health disorders so that everyone, everywhere can live a more fulfilled life. They were one of the pioneers to use psilocybin in treating mental health and they have raised around $400M equity and debt from Petter Thiel and other investors to build a portfolio of compounds like MDMA, DMT and others, to go through clinical trials and bring them to market. During this episode we discuss about Florians' motivation to start Atai, how drug discovery works and why it takes around 10 years to bring to market, and a personal story of trying psychedelics to go through the loss of a loved one. Enjoy!…
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1 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 22:49
Michael Lazarenko, founder and CEO of Embedd . With Embedd they provide a unified framework so that all the components coming from tens of different manufacturers can communicate with each other on the circuit board. They raised $1.2M Eur pre-seed round led by Cocoa in May last year and now they are ready and gearing up to raise their seed round. During this episode we discuss how they took 350 meetings to raise the pressed, the importance of storytelling when of explaining something complex to investors and how the war in Ukraine has built more resilience in him and his team but also killed his previous startup. Brought to you by Wolt4Work , sign up and add Venture Europe and your Company Name in the company field to get a 100 Eur voucher…
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1 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 30:03
Alexandre Momeni - Partner at General Catalyst . Alex specialises in healthcare and AI and has been instrumental in bringing some of Europe’s biggest AI deals to General Catlayst’s door. For background General Catalyst, has $28bn assets under management and is one of the world’s best known VC firms. They backed some of greatest businesses that you probably are familiar with including Airbnb, Stripe, Discord and Snap and in Europe they have made more than 20 investments in companies like the AI superstar - Mistral, the defense company - Helsing and the new company co-founded by Daniel Ek - Neko health. During this episode we discuss about the opportunities in healthcare in Europe, what Alex looks for when meeting teams to invest in and the future of brain machine interface. Brought to you by Wolt4Work , sign up and add Venture Europe and your Company Name in the company field to get a 100 Eur voucher…
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1 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 34:15
Robert Jäkle is a Partner at Visionaries Club . Visionaries is a leading European early-stage VC fund with offices in London and Berlin. The fund is backed by over 30 unicorn founders - such as the founders of UiPath, Flixbus, Miro and Skype - as well as leading European family business entrepreneurs. Bobby joined the fund on day one and has helped build it over the past five years. He now co-leads the firm's seed fund and has made several investments in Fintech, Compliance, HR, and Automation in the past years in the likes of Apron Pay, Leapsome, Workflex, Adfin, Pledge and Accountable to name a few. During this episode we discuss about about why European founders and investors should take more risk, the rarity of a unicorn founder and how to find it and the importance to surround yourself with ambitious and driven people. Enjoy! Brought to you by Wolt4Work , sign up and add Venture Europe and your Company Name in the company field to get a 100 Eur voucher…
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1 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 32:55
Aleksander Larsen is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and COO of Sky Mavis , the company behind the popular crypto game Axie Infinity and the Ronin Network. SkyMavis is the breakout company at the intersection of gaming and blockchain, they’ve raised around 300 million dollars according to Dealroom and Crunchbase from top investors like a16z, Accel and Paradigm. During this episode we discuss about Aleksnaders’s move to Vietnam to pursue the opportunity at the intersection of gaming and blockchain, the North Korean hack, that compromised $600m of players and companies tokens and the vision of financial inclusion through gaming and crypto and competing longterm with Visa Enjoy! Brought to you by Wolt4Work , sign up and add Venture Europe and your Company Name in the company field to get a 100 Eur voucher…
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1 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 44:21
Annie Duke is a Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partner s, a seed stage venture fund. Annie is a prolific author in the decision making space having written "Thinking in Bets" - a national bestseller, "How to decide: Simple tools for making better choices” and the latest book “Quit - the power of knowing when to walk away”. As a former professional poker player, she has won more than 4 million dollars, won a World Series of Poker bracelet and is the only woman to have won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. During this episode we discuss about the difference between decision quality and outcome quality, some frameworks she advises entrepreneurs to use when making decisions and the power of mental time travel. Enjoy! Brought to you by uTopic - the topic based communication platform for entrepreneurs…
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1 Oliver Holle - From an angel fund to 1B AuM, Building specialized teams to support founders, Starting a company in the 90s VS today 28:55
Oliver Holle - co-founder, CEO and Managing Partner at SpeedInvest , a leading European early-stage VC. Starting in 2011 as an angel fund, today Speedinvest became a 1B Eur European powerhouse investing in startups at the earliest phases. With their sector focused teams across Deeptech, Fintech, Marketplace and Consumer among others and operational teams, they deeply support founders in their journey. During this episode we discuss about the similarities between the AI wave with the iPhone moment, how quitting sometimes is the best decision and the need to have a chip on the shoulder and intrinsically motivation to succeeded as a founder. Enjoy! Brought to you by uTopic - peers, not followers…
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1 Carmen Alfonso Rico - Investing in killers with a heart, The right to a secret, Co-founder relationships, Finding your superpower and win-win situations 51:48
Carmen Alfonso Rico - founder and GP of Cocoa VC . Cocoa is a VC fund investing between $250k-$500k angel checks at pre-seed/seed and how they like to say it “they don’t give a damn about ownership stake”. In less than 3 years she invested in some of the most talented founders from Arcane, Twirl and Plumery just to name a few, co-investing with some of the best investors in Europe and globally. During this episode we talk about why they can win competitive deals and be on the same side of the table with founders, her preferred questions to ask founders and the challenges that women face when focusing on career. Enjoy! Brought to you by uTopic - peers, not followers…
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1 Bernt Bornich - Androids for the worlds labor demands, Raising > Eur 100M from EQT and OpenAI fund, Building softness in robots, Embodied learning and AGI 40:24
Bernt Øivind Børnich - co-founder and CEO of 1X , an AI and robotics company producing androids to benefit society and meet the world’s labor demand. One of the most exciting companies in Europe that stands at the forefront of AI robotics. Their mission is to create androids that work among people and have a new approach to embodied learning for data collection. They recently raised over 100 million euros from EQT Ventures, Sam Altmans' Open AI fund and other notable global investors to bring to market its second generation android called, NEO. During this episode we discuss about the importance of building softness in order for androids to work and live among humans, the infinite demand curve for a useful droid and his advice for founders to go and build stuff that matters more specifically filling the gap for a future with energy abundance. Enjoy! Brought to you by uTopic - peers, not followers…
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1 Kaushik Subramanian - Learnings from building products at Meta and Stripe, Extreme focus on the user problem, User first mentality, Choosing your design partners 34:01
Our guest today is Kaushik Subramanian, partner at EQT Ventures , investing primarily in product-led technology businesses. From offices in Stockholm, London, Berlin, Paris and New York, EQT invests in and supports entrepreneurs building the next-generation of global winners from a 1.1B Euro fund. Prior to joining EQT, Kaushik was at Stripe and Meta where he built and scaled several products to global reach and generating billions. During this episode we discuss how to choose your design partners when building the early version of the product, why he decided to join EQT ventures and how he asses founders if they have a product first mindset. Brought to you by uTopic - peers, not followers…
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1 Julius Bachmann - Coaching entrepreneurs, The ups and downs of entrepreneurship and the importance of finding a support system 38:09
Julius is a certified coach and has coached over 150 entrepreneurs backed by Atomico, a16z and Creandum among others, has trained over 100 venture investors and just recently released his first single on Spotify. During this episode we discuss about the moment he decided to become a coach, the learnings along the coaching journey and what are the most common challenges founders and investors have, when they reach out to him. Wanna join a peer-support community for founders? Join us at uTopic . :)…
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1 Nicole Paulk - The evolution of modern medicine, 4h sleep cycle, Tackling cancer with gene therapy, Leaving academia and starting a business, Programming cells 37:24
Dr. Nicole Paulk is the CEO and founder of the viral gene therapy startup Siren Biotechnology . Prior to being a founder she was a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF in San Francisco, California where her lab worked at the forefront of developing and engineering enabling technologies to make viruses better medicines. During this episode we discuss the evolution of modern medicine from ingesting medicinal leaves to gene therapy, we also discuss how she plans to use viruses to treat cancer and therapies for sleeping only 4h are closer than you think. Enjoy!…
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1 Bharat Vasan - Consumer Tech, Ozempic - the miracle drug, Assessing founders for grit bias to action and the ability to tell a story 47:07
Bharat Vasan, Partner and COO at The Production Board . Bharat is overseeing the consumer technology portfolio and actively invests in, advises and serves on the boards of early-stage businesses. He is one of Silicon Valley’s most battle-tested and proven CEOs and operators, with multiple successful exits and over $500M dollars raised. During this episode we discuss about some trends in consumer tech around AI and food, how they asses founders when investing and how he struggled with weight loss and how Ozempic, the miracle drug made by Novo Nordisk changed his mind, body – and investment strategy. Enjoy!…
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1 Bjarne Kveim Lie - The status at growth stage, Eur 5B committed, 140 investments, Growth > FCF, Dr Alban and the asymmetric risk-reward ratio 33:54
Bjarne Kveim Lie - Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Verdane . Verdane invests in technology companies with equity tickets between 8 and 150m Euro, they have Eur 5B of committed capital and over 140 investments since 2003. They have a flexible mandate and can make both minority and majority investments. In addition to making individual investments they also act as a solution provider for GPs that seek liquidity and have completed over 50 so called ‘secondary directs’ over the years. They have been named Best European PE Growth Fund all the years between 2019 and 2023 and Best European mid-market PE fund in 2022. During this episode we discuss about the status of the growth stage as an asset class, the learnings from investing for over 20 years and the fun parallel between investing with an asymmetric risk reward ratio and Dr Alban. It’s my life!…
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1 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 32:30
James Currier - Founding Partner at NfX . James is a five-time Founder, an angel investor in DoorDash, Lyft, and Patreon, and a Founding Partner at the venture capital firm, NfX. Before becoming an investor, James was the co-founder and CEO of Tickle, one of the internet’s first successful user-generated-content companies. Tickle grew to the 18th largest website in the world with over 150 million registered users — before they were acquired in 2004 by Monster for $110 million. It was during this time that James realized the power of network effects as the core growth driver of both B2B and B2C successes across every vertical. James then co-founded three other successful companies – Wonderhill (online video games, merged with Kabam in 2010 which then sold for $800M), IronPearl (growth analytics SaaS, acquired by PayPal in 2013), and Jiff (enterprise healthcare software, raised $68M from Venrock, GE, J&J, merged with Castlight in 2017 — NASDAQ: CSLT). As a lifelong learner and developer of talent, James loves sharing wisdom among Founders. He speaks regularly at numerous industry conferences and has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, TechCrunch, and Silicon Valley Business Journal. During this episode we discuss about the importance of the founding team and learning velocity, we discuss about network effects and the white-hot center and touch upon some books recommendations across entrepreneurships, finding one self and marriage and relationships. Enjoy!…
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1 Zeynep Yavuz - From ideation to IPO, Thematic Investor, Assessing first time entrepreneurs, Fintech and Crypto 34:20
Zeynep Yavuz - Partner at General Catalyst . General Catalyst, has $28bn assets under management and is one of the world’s best known VC firms. They backed some of greatest businesses that you probably are very familiar with including Airbnb, Stripe, Discord and Snap among many many others others. Prior to joining GC, Zeynep worked as an operator focused on strategy and product at World Remit and invested at growth stages at TA Associates. At GC she focuses on fintech and crypto. During this episode we discuss about her career trajectory from working in investment banking to private equity to operator and now GC. We also discuss how she asses founders at early stage and we touch on the opportunities that lie at the intersection of fintech and crypto. Enjoy!…
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1 Chris Smith - The state of Pre-seed investing, Fundraising process, Intuition VS Investment Memo, The importance of hard work 36:25
Chris Smith - Managing Partner of Playfair. (brought to you by Seedrs ) Playfair is a generalist fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resources to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed more than 70 companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI among others. During this episode we discuss how they asses investment opportunities at such an early stage, the number one mistake founders do when fundraising and how they support their founders to raise a Series A. Enjoy!…
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