Henrik Werdelin gets coffee, or rides elevators in this case, with people who are doing something uniquely entrepreneurial. You are invited to be a fly-on-the-wall for a conversation recorded in the streets of New York. In this episode, Alex Godin and Henrik discuss how to apply entrepreneurship to philanthropy – and how Alex is taking his experience building startups and applying it to launch a non-profit meal kit service called Lemontree for low-income households. Alex Godin is an entrepreneur, writer, ice cream maker, habitual dinner party host and the founder of Lemontree, a new kind of non-profit. http://twitter.com/alex_godin and http://lemontreefoods.org Produced by: Henrik Werdelin Henrik: http://twitter.com/werdelin and http://hellohenrik.com Prehype: prehype.com

This is a new format where Henrik Werdelin gets coffee with people who are doing something uniquely entrepreneurial. You are invited to be a fly-on-the-wall for a conversation recorded in the streets of New York. In this first episode, it's a chat with Scott Belsky about selling your company and the pros and cons of running your own startup versus being part of a large company like Adobe. Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, investor, author, and Chief Product Officer at Adobe. twitter.com/scottbelsky New Book: The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture - http://a.co/d/iKX43VI Produced by: Henrik Werdelin Henrik: twitter.com/werdelin and hellohenrik.com Prehype: prehype.com

In this episode, we discuss focusing on one startup versus trying to build several at once. Star entrepreneurs like Elon Musk seem to be able to manage building a range of companies at the same time - but what are the pros and cons and what are some of the learnings from people who have tried to do it. Around the mic in this episode are serial entrepreneurs Henrik (Joost, Hotpotato, Prehype, BarkBox), Saman (ManagedByQ, Caspian) and Nicholas (Basno, StandupGiraffe, Rad.Rapport). Participants: Nicholas Thorne - twitter.com/thorneny Saman Rahmanian - twitter.com/saman325 Produced by: Henrik Werdelin Henrik: twitter.com/werdelin and hellohenrik.com Prehype: prehype.com

In this episode, prehype's managing partner Henrik Werdelin discuss the question that most innovation teams fail to answer, namely; What business are we actually in. He is joined by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg who is the co-author of Innovation as Usual, a Harvard Business Review Press book on the art of driving innovation in regular organizations. Thomas has worked with managers in nearly all parts of the globe. His research has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, BBC Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek and the Financial Times. As a keynote speaker, he has addressed organizations such as Time Warner Group, Cisco, T-Mobile, Johnson & Johnson, UBS, Deloitte, and The United Nations. Participants: Thomas - https://wedellsblog.com/ Thomas book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2n7p8sy Produced by: Henrik Werdelin Henrik: twitter.com/werdelin and hellohenrik.com Prehype: prehype.com

Increasingly larger companies are looking to the startup space to fast track access to talent, markeds, technology or data. Often this is done by setting up a corporate venture unit. In todays podcast, prehype partners Stacey Seltzer, Stuart Willson and Henrik Werdelin discuss some of the best practices of corporate VC based on their experience managing programs for various fortune 500s. For more on coke's program listen to 'How Coca-Cola is pioneering the use of venture investments to push innovation internally (Ep 5)' Participants: Stuart Willson - https://twitter.com/stuartawillson Stacey Seltzer - https://twitter.com/staceyjseltzer Produced by: Henrik Werdelin Henrik: twitter.com/werdelin and hellohenrik.com Prehype: prehype.com

The first 200 days of a startup is where you create the DNA of the company for many years to come. Culture, initial tech decision, first hires, and early customers’ feedback are the elements that either make or break a company. In this episode, we look back at the last 200 days of building the startup Umi.Kitchen. The podcast is a 'best of' a podcast series that Henrik Werdelin did for Forbes that looked at the key startup lessons gained over 10 dinners with the founders of the New York startup. Participants: Umi Founders: Derek Gottfrid -https://twitter.com/derekg Khalil Tawil - https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaliltawil Hallie Meyer - https://www.instagram.com/umi.kitchen/ Listen to all 10 episodes here: http://www.forbes.com/podcasts/first-200-days/ Produced by: Henrik Werdelin Henrik: twitter.com/werdelin and hellohenrik.com Prehype: prehype.com

"Desktop is the new newspaper." A year ago Dow Jones / The Wall Street Journal asked their Chief Innovation Officer Edward Roussel to set up a new innovation unit. In this podcast he explains what he has learned over the past year - and gives key lessons on what he is glad he did - and what he would redo if he could. Produced by: Henrik Werdelin More info on Edward: twitter.com/edwardroussel and http://www.dowjones.com/team/edward-roussel/ Prehype: prehype.com Henrik: twitter.com/werdelin and hellohenrik.com

In grad school, Jeff Raider started a little eyeglasses company called Warby Parker. Less than three years later, he found himself at the helm of a men's shaving startup - and a razor blade manufacturing plant in Germany. In this episode, get in Jeff's mind as he talks about vertical integration in the startup world, what it's like to run two (insanely successful)companies with your best friends and why you might find Jeff standing in a bathroom studying what you do... Hosted by: Henrik Werdelin Produced by: Whitney Donaldson More from Jeff on https://twitter.com/jeffreyraider More about prehype on http://prehype.com Henrik is on twitter.com/werdelin and writes a blog on http://hellohenrik.com

Things get philosophical this week as we explore the nuances of the "hidden" mobile interface with Aaron Harris - all around good guy, founder of Tutorspree, partner at Y Combinator, and champion of the digital sabbath. Listen to Aaron's thoughts on chat as the native mobile interface, the obsolescence of beautiful design, and how the bar for speed and convenience keeps getting higher. Produced by: Henrik Werdelin More info on Aaron: https://twitter.com/harris and http://www.aaronkharris.com Prehype: prehype.com Henrik: http://twitter.com/werdelin and http://hellohenrik.com

Michael specializes in relationship design for founders, authors, and speakers interested in playing a bigger game. He works with people to leverage their existing networks for the purpose of getting higher paid engagements, speaking opportunities, and interviews. We sat down to talk about why networking is considered a bad word and what are tools you can use to become a connector rather than a networker. Produced by: Henrik Werdelin. More info on: Michael: www.smallpondenterprises.com Prehype: prehype.com Henrik: twitter.com/werdelin and hellohenrik.com Books mentioned in this podcast: Switch (http://goo.gl/8xplL)