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Founder Radio

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In-depth conversations with the globe’s most exciting company founders
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Antonia Marino, Co-Founder and COO of payments and credit platform Kontempo.io on Kickstarting the Business, 10x growth in Year 2, Focus and Endurance

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Antonia is COO and Co-founder of Kontempo. Kontempo is a leading payments and credit platform for Mexico’s industrial sector. Started in 2021, but with previous experience in the sector, they’ve executed with laser focus. In 2024 they 10x-ed their business are are now expandin...

Feb 06, 20251 hr 1 minEp. 17

Tinashe Ruzane of Flexclub on The Idea Maze, Their Growth and Restructuring Rollercoaster and Personal Growth

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Tinashe is CEO and Co-founder of Flexclub. Flexclub is piloting an Uber-like car-network for long term rentals, and for other brands to build on top of. Started in 2018, they’ve gone to multiple iterations of their product, while navigating radically changing circumstances for...

Dec 05, 20241 hr 17 minEp. 16

Yoram Wijngaarde of Dealroom.co on following your intuition, the courage to stand out, phases of growth, and how his company shaped him as a person

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Yoram is CEO and founder of Dealroom. Dealroom is a Bloomberg for early stage private companies: It provides data on the companies, their founders, their funding rounds and valuations, and many other aspects of the business. Dealroom’s data is used by investors, corporates and...

Sep 18, 20241 hr 14 minEp. 15

Karun Arya of GetVantage on the Early Days, How GetVantage Provides Business Loans in 7-10 days, India's New Digital Infrastructure and his Lessons on Entrepreneurship

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Karun is part of the founding team and Chief Growth Officer of GetVantage. GetVantage invests between $25k - $2.5m in emerging business in India across certain sectors, like eCommerce, SaaS, gaming, cleantech. Karun is also an investor and advisor in GajiGesa, who’s founder Vi...

Jul 06, 20241 hr 3 minEp. 14

Vidit Agrawal of GajiGesa on getting from zero to one and from one to 350k users in 4 years, on selecting a business opportunity, working in Indonesia and starting a company with your wife

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Vidit Agrawal is the founder of GajiGesa (Indonesia), which manages employee finances in South-East Asia, and has amassed 350k users in just under 4 years. With GajiGesa, employees have early access to their wages and no longer need predatory lending, and employers save thousa...

Jul 04, 202435 minEp. 13

Fred Jordan of FinalSpark on Building a Computer out of Human Stem Cells, Applying Fundamental Research and Math in Business, Success and Happiness

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Fred Jordan of FinalSpark (Switserland) and his team are building a revolutionary new kind of computer, out of human stem cells. The human brain is several orders of magnitude more energy efficient than silicon based computer, and Fred's team hopes to unlock those efficiencies...

Jun 16, 202448 minEp. 12

Pit Janssen of MedApp on Bootstrapping, Hidden Funding, How to Win in an Old Industry, Exiting to a Listed Company, and Parenting Tactics for Nurturing Killer Entrepreneurs

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Pit Janssen of MedApp has exited his prescription medicine adherence and delivery company to the biggest, stock exchange listed, EUR 2.0bn market cap online pharmacy company in Europe. MedApp launched as a medication adherence app, and rolled out an integrated pharmacy with a ...

May 21, 202452 minEp. 11

Joel of Trubrics on Closing Their First Round, What No One Knows about LLMs and his Journey from Entreprising Kid to Founder-CEO

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Joel co-founded London-based Trubrics, which helps product teams track what’s happening inside LLM models. He and his co-founder founded the company when they saw companies investing heavily in LLM models but remaining in the dark on what is going on inside. They’ve just close...

May 20, 202443 minEp. 10

Kees Aarts of Protix on Evolution, the Future of Intelligence, his Journey to Success and Insects Potential to Transform the Food Chain

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Meet one of Europe’s most driven impact entrepreneurs: Kees Aarts, founder of Protix. Protix is an insect protein company founded to radically reduce the environmental footprint of our food system and help stop the loss of biodiversity in our seas. Kees and his team started ou...

May 09, 20241 hr 5 minEp. 9

Kim Durand of Cheaf on moving from Europe to Asia to Latin America, Finding Product Market Fit, Stress, Self-Improvement and Next Steps

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Kim Durand hails from Paris and moved to Mexico City to start Cheaf, which reduces food waste by offering high quality food that is close to the expiry date at steep discounts. Started less than 4 years ago, the company now employs 30 FTE. Kim was born and raised in France and...

Apr 15, 202450 minEp. 8

Sophia Hummelman of ReCarbn on Reversing Climate Change and How to Start a Business

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Sophia Hummelman Co-Founded ReCarbn, which is working on reversing climate change, by direct air capture of CO2. Sophia was born and raised in the Netherlands and has working in finance at JPMorgan and iFund, in London, Paris and Amsterdam, before starting ReCarbn. Amongst man...

Feb 27, 202429 minEp. 7

Harpreet Singh of Peckish on Stress, Sikhism and working at Uber

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Listen to our talk with Harpreet Singh ! Harpreet Co-Founded Peckish , and is building a new backend operating system for restaurants to drastically reduce food waste and increase profitability for restaurants. Harpreet was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and now works an...

Jan 24, 202453 minEp. 6

Yorick Bruins of Wakuli on Impact, Coffee from Congo and Wakuli's business model change

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Tune in to our latest conversation with Yorick Bruins ! Yorick is Co-Founder and CEO of Wakuli , a Netherlands based Direct-to-Consumer subscription coffee brand, thats has also started opening coffee shops at a high pace. Wakuli is all about changing the system of coffee prod...

Jan 24, 20241 hr 9 minEp. 5

Mikael Rautanen of Inderes on Investing, Longevity and Standing Next to Others in Tough Times

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Mikael Rautanen is Co-Founder and CEO of Inderes, a Finland based equity research and investor relations company. Inderes is changing the investing industry, from a focus on the 1%, to a world where every retail investor has full access to company information and insights. Mik...

Dec 01, 202352 minEp. 4

Nikolaas van de Loock of Rite on Design, Boutique Sports and the Marathon des Sables

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! Niko is the founder of Rite Studios, a boutique sports chain from Belgium. He's started his career at Unilever and has held Strategy and General Manager roles at Uber in India, the Middle East and Europe. In this episode, we discuss The founding of Rite The development sports ...

Nov 03, 202349 minEp. 3

Mark Hulshof of Triggre on Nocode for SMEs and Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! This episode we have Mark Hulshof of Triggre. Mark has been building Triggre, a nocode automation platform for SMEs, for over 10 years. He's now experiencing a strong acceleration in his business, and is getting ready for expansion. Mark is very open about his ambitions, strug...

Sep 23, 202347 minEp. 2

Jacqueline van den Ende of Carbon Equity on Climate Change and Moral Leadership

Want to know how successful founders turn ideas into empires? Listen to Founder Radio for inside stories from innovative entrepreneurs from all over the globe. Hit follow on your podcast app or YouTube for instant updates! This episode we talk to Jacqueline van den Ende of Carbon Equity . Jacqueline and her co-founders started Carbon Equity 3 years ago in order to combat climate change. Carbon Equity enables consumers to invest in innovative technology companies, leading to direct climate impact...

Sep 23, 20231 hr 2 minEp. 1
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