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Casper Henningsen (Part 1): Becoming a pro football player, Falling into addiction, Losing it all and starting from scratch

Jonathan Sanders - Raising $43m to build an AI native ERP, Why Oracle ERP was used to build the pyramids, His experience as Head of Payments and scaling the team from 20 to 800 at Pleo

Aleksander Larsen - The asymmetric war with drones, Building a defense-tech company from Norway, Learnings from $620M North-Korea Hack

Sebastian Mallaby - How did the AGI war start and who will win?

Chaz Englander - 3x founder looking to build $1T company, FT Partners leading the $75m round, learnings and mistakes that others should learn from

Diyala D'Aveni - Meeting John (Agneli Dynasty behind Fiat, Ferrari, Juventus), Investing in Italian Founders with an Idea, Organizing Wave 2026 with speakers like Dario Amodei and Jony Ive

Thomas Cuvelier - The Samwer's Brothers, Investing at early-stage, The art of learning, What every VC wants to see, Why mediocrity is dead

Paul Murphy - Platform VS Application Layer, Learnings from Microsoft, How to Print Money with AI, The gift for Europe

Bryan Kim - Davos, Investing in ElevenLabs, Importance of Storytelling, Bryan's Personal Mission

Technological Adolescence - Dario Amodei

Sara Rywe - Investing the first check in Lovable, The importance of EQ as a Venture Capitalist, The work behind becoming a Tier 1 fund, Assessing talent and investing before there is proof

Jan Goetz - From quantum physicist to deep-tech founder, Raising $600M, First application around the corner, From academia to startup

Max Kufner - Bioreactors that capture harmful CO2, Moving from VC to the co-founder role, Why attitude is sometimes more important than skill

Mati Staniszewski - Building ElevenLabs into a $6.6B Voice AI Powerhouse, The Importance of small teams, The Future of Human-AI Conversations, Real-Time Dubbing & Emotional Speech

Tom Wilson - Learnings from a decade investing at seed-stage, The importance of Universities in innovation, Fixing Spin-offs, The common traits of successful founders

Dan Ariely - Why We’re Predictably Irrational, The Hidden Psychology Behind Everyday Choices and Decision-Making, How to think about Pricing, The decoy effect, How to reframe a decision

Des Traynor - The AI wake up call, From pricing per seats to pricing per outcome, Difference between European and American entrepreneurs

In this episode of the Venture Europe podcast, Calin Fabri interviews Des Traynor, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Intercom, about Intercom's journey, focusing on the impact of AI on their business. They discuss Intercom's early days, the decision to go all-in on their software product, and the challenges of s...

Maxime Barbier - From 300M+ monthly video views to founding an anti social media startup, The loneliness epidemic, Connecting 25,000+ people every week across 320+ cities in 65 countries

In this episode of the Venture Europe podcast, host Calin Fabri interviews Maxime Barbier, the co-founder and CEO of Timeleft, a company that organizes dinners for strangers. Maxime discusses the inspiration behind Timeleft, which stemmed from his personal challenge of having coffee with 100 strangers and his desire to...

Deep Dive - Have I been Pwned?, The recent password leaks, Protecting Yourself from Mass Password Leaks

Supercharging Portfolio Value-Add - Platform 2.0, Creating engaging communities, The importance of playbooks, Business Development , Talent, Branding