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Visionaries Unplugged

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Feb 27, 2024 • 22min

A global state of tech

Global Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital, Doug Leone, and Visionaries Club Founding Partner Robert Lacher discuss entrepreneurship traits like hunger and adaptability, Europe's tech strengths, and global fintech founder insights. They delve into innovation, resilience, and the evolving tech market landscape, highlighting opportunities in Europe, China, Southeast Asia, and India.
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Feb 13, 2024 • 26min

The Athlete Investor

Join us for a captivating conversation featuring Formula One Champion and Investor Nico Rosberg in dialogue with Visionaries Founding Partner Robert Lacher. Together, they delve into the parallels between athletes and founders. Uncover valuable insights such as the paramount importance of focus, the critical role of balance, and the indispensable nature of courage. Tune in now to discover more.
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Jan 30, 2024 • 19min

Lessons on Mastery from a World Champion

Soccer World Champion and Investor Mario Götze discusses his journey in sports and his second career as a startup investor. They explore athletes' interest in business and investments, making quick judgments in soccer, favorite startups, money managing skills, learning methods, investment strategies, and leveraging reputation for investment decisions.
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Jan 16, 2024 • 15min

Entrepreneurship Unbound: the story of building India's largest telecom and finding the next generational businesses

In this episode, Shravin Bharti Mittal, the Founder of Unbound and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, and Visionaries Club Founding Partner Sebastian Pollok will take you on an exploration of Bharti Global's origins, one of the world’s largest telecom companies with 450+ million customers, and Shravin's mission with Unbound - a globally oriented, long-term technology investment firm dedicated to nurturing and championing the next generation of "100-year companies" while genuinely creating substantial value - REAL value.
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Jan 2, 2024 • 23min

US vs. Europe and insights from starting PayPal and LinkedIn

In this episode, Harry Stebbings, Founder of 20VC will chat with Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock, about his learnings from the early days of Paypal, starting LinkedIn and being one of the very early backers and believers in our European Tech ecosystem with his support of programs such as Entrepreneur First! But what can we do better? How can governments support to accelerate our ecosystem? Tune in to find out.
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Dec 19, 2023 • 28min

In the eye of the storm: The role of AI in a changing world order

Torsten Reil, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Helsing, and Caroline Daniel discuss leading the charge in AI, challenges in the defense industry, ethics in battlefield situations, AI regulation, human oversight in AI systems, and the current landscape of AI investments.
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Dec 5, 2023 • 15min

Skin in the game

Charmaine Chow, founder of GetHarley and former employee at Goldman Sachs, talks about her inspiring entrepreneurial journey and the impact of personal image on self-perception and success. She shares insights on transitioning from finance to operating a business, the importance of a people-first approach and sales playbooks, and balancing data and intuition in business.
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Nov 21, 2023 • 23min

Rising with Resilience and Vision: The story behind Supercell

Ilkka Paananen is the Co-Founder & CEO of Supercell, the Finnish games company behind hit games such as Clash of Clans, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Founded in 2010, Supercell’s games have been featuring in the global top 10 for years and are played by more than 250 million people every month. Prepare to be inspired as Ilkka will go through a few of his very personal moments and experiences of his entrepreneurial journey building and shaping Supercell into such an enduring company as well as looking a bit "behind the scenes of Europe's angel mafia" and a new generation of founders syndicating to develop the European ecosystem to the next level togehter with the Founder of 20VC, Harry Stebbings.
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Nov 7, 2023 • 16min

Hyperscaling SaaS & family

The journey of hyperscaling is synonymous with the remarkable success story of Pigment. Eléonore Crespo, the Co-Founder of Pigment, has achieved a staggering 600% revenue growth in 2022 compared to 2021, and the company has raised an impressive $250M in just three years. Notably, some of the industry's giants such as Klarna, Miro, Airtable, Figma, Webhelp, Poshmark, Eventbrite, and Mozilla have harnessed the power of Pigment's platform. Intrigued by the art of hyperscaling while fostering family values simultaneously? Tune in to this insightful session moderated by Miriam Partington during Unplugged 2023 to gain valuable insights into this unique journey.
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Oct 24, 2023 • 20min

UiPath & Miro Unplugged: Pioneering AI in automation and visual collaboration

When two pioneers in SaaS meet, we will certainly listen to one of the most impressive fireside chats. Andrey Khusid, Co-Founder and CEO of Miro, and Daniel Dines, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of UiPath, share a few of their very personal moments and experiences of their entrepreneurial journeys building and shaping two decacorns - UiPath and Miro - into such enduring companies as well as the role of AI in unleashing new horizons of the product scope.

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