Entrepreneurial Realities

In this episode, Antoine interviews Bruce Linton, Legendary Canadian CEO and Co-Founder of Canopy Growth, the world largest Cannabis company. We discuss a wide range of topics that go beyond Canopy Growth, how to grow companies, spot huge disruptions and the coming revolution on psychedelics for mental health treatment. 

In this week's episode, Antoine talks to Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Co-Founder, and Director of the federal agency SPRIND.  SPRIND is a German civil version of the US agency DARPA which focuses on helping local founders to achieve ambitious disrupting innovations.

In anticipation of the MUC.XYZ, we interview Annette Doms, founder of MUC/labs, and one of the world best authority on NFT and Web 3 opportunities.

The next MUC.XYC conference will be held November 9th at the Munich Urban Colab in partnership with the TUM Venture Lab.  This is a special episode where we interview the organisers of this conference: Daniel Kliche, Anton Hiller,  Dirk Stauder and Christoph Langewisch. And we hope you can all join us on November 9th.

In this episode, Jan Goetz, CEO and Co-Founder of IQM Quantum Computers is interviewed by Antoine to discuss the huge opportunities opended by Quantum Computing, IQM's latest raise and the challenges and opportunities of having such a Venture in Europe. 

In this week's episode, Jan Mittendorf meets Zied Bahrouni, the CEO and Co-Founder of Motius. Zied and Jan talk about the challenges many deep tech founders face and how Zied came from working at BMW and founding a company to starting his own venture fund Spacewalk.

Welcome back to Season 2 of Entreprneurial Realities! In this week's episode, Antoine meets Flora Geske, the CEO and Co-Founder of SUMM, and Miloš Zlatković, CEO and Founder of Mily Technologies. Flora and Miloš talk about their journey from their first idea to successfully aquire first paying customers.

In this week's episode, Antoine meets Fabian Warmdt, the CEO and Co-Founder of Glocally (YC W22). Fabian and Antoine talk about Glocally and Fabian's personal and professional experiences of his time in the Y-Combinator.

For the first time since many years we are in an economic downturn. This could be due to many reasons: Interest rates are rising, uncertainties in Supply Chain, the war in Ukraine, ... but whatever, this is likely to be the first time that young entrepreneurs will face such a situation.  This will impact both existing funded startups which will need to plan for uncertainty and not growth at all costs and non-funded ones will find it more difficult to raise.  To make sense of this situation, Antoine Leboyer Leboyer interviews Andreas Goeldi, Partner at Btov Partners, who wrote in Medium: The 10 mistakes most founders make in a downturn to help our listeners step back and make the right decisions in the current situation.

In this week's episode, Antoine meets Jochen Engert, Co-Founder and CEO at FlixMobility. Antoine and Jochen are talking about the story of Flixmobility to becoming a dominant player in Germany before going abroad to evolve into a global leader.