Entrepreneurial Realities

Please meet Pablo Palafox. He is the CEO and Co-founder of HappyRobot, one of the most successful TUM Software and AI Venture Lab Alumni. Discover his experience of going to the US, doing a major Pivot and reaping the benefits of focusing with intensity on a very specific problem for the freight industry in the US.

Join me In this episode where we discuss with Matthias Röder, CEO of the Karajan Institute. In this fascinating interview, we discuss his work, how artists can embrace technology and particularly AI to enhance their creativity, classical music and entrepreneurship.

We are joined this week by Julien Weissenberg. Julien is Zurich based and the founder of Deep Tech Experts. He is also playing an active role with leading organisations such as the World Economic Forum and Inno-Suisse. More importantly, he is working with many Swiss leading VCs and Innovation Agencies as the expert they call to assess the quality of the technology of AI startups they want to invest in. ... So he is really someone you want to be asked to meet.

Do join me in my fascinating conversation with Niclas Molinder. I met Niclas at the 2024 DLD Munich Conference where he gave a remarquable presentation of creation of music using AI tools. In addition to his activities as a musician (he has worked with Abba, Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga ..), Niclas is also a founder of SessionStudio and has launched CLIP to help creators manage their Intellectual Property. Together, we discuss on his career but also on how AI is impacting the music industry.

Please join us in our discussion with Bernhard Neumann. Bernhard is a dear friend and a brand strategist whose recent work focuses on the concept of personal branding. We discuss why this really matters and particularly for younger entrepreneurs and is part of their journey.

For this end of year 2023, Antoine Leboyer receives Leon Merkel, Founder and CEO of Bumpee. Leon is one of the rare entrepreneurs who have already sold their startups. This is a rare experience. Do hear our discussion on the lessons of this great adventure.

Please join us for our end of year podcast, a conversation with Valentin Schelhaas, CEO of Zentor on ... Happiness. Valentin and I were guests at the first conference on Mental Health and Entrepreneurship where he gave a revealing presentation. I reached out to him so that we could discuss it in the context of Entrepreneurship to understand if and how entrepreneurs can also be as good on their ventures as to their happiness.

Do join my colleague Nic Knapp in our interview with Bernhard Horst, head of the BMW Startup Garage, as we discuss on multiple topics, where innovation in the automotive industry will come from, Startups around the world and how to engage with his organisation. Please note that we had a few seconds where we were disconnected (around 8:30 ...) but all the rest of the conversation is perfectly audible.

Welcome to a very Special Episode: Harvard Business School Professor Andy Wu⁠ and Antoine Leboyer step back from the events of the last days with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman being fired and joining, along with a likely high number of OpenAI employees and discuss on a big variety of topics: Non profit and for profit board, what this means for the industry, what this means for Microsoft, ...

Andy Wu is Harvard Business School Professor of Strategy with a focus on new technologies. He also is the holder of multiple patents so in other words, he really has a grasp of strategy and technology. Join us as we discuss the implications of AI for Businesses, new business models, who are going to be the winners in the new world and what AI startups should take into account ...