Best Saket Kumar Podcasts (2025)

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Moving Brands Beyond the Friend Zone: Doug Zarkin on Building Emotional Customer Connections 24:47

12d ago24:47

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In this episode of The Curiosity Current, hosts Stephanie Vance and Matt Mahan welcome Doug Zarkin, Chief Brand Officer at Modern Performance and Recovery Brands and author of "Moving Your Brand Out of the Friend Zone. Doug Zarkin is the Chief Brand Officer at Modern Performance and Recovery Brands, where he specializes in creating meaningful consu…

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Storytelling, Service & AI: Tanya Pinto's Journey 39:46

20d ago39:46

39:46

In this episode of The Curiosity Current, hosts Matt and Stephanie sit down with Tanya Pinto, Principal UX Researcher at Microsoft focused on Copilot AI, to explore the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and human insight. Through the lens of both her corporate work and humanitarian efforts as founder of Baal Dan Charities, Tanya…

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The Keys to the Future: AI and Data Analytics with Saket Kumar of Citi 45:04

1M ago45:04

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How do AI and data shape the world? And, how can you be the sculptor? In the latest episode of The Curiosity Current: A Market Research Podcast, hosts Stephanie Vance and Matt Mahan welcome Saket Kumar, Vice President of Consumer Analytics at Citi, to explore the true power of deep data analytics and AI in the enhancement of customer experience. Th…

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Mastering the Language of Data for Impact with Karen Kraft from Johnsonville 43:16

2M ago43:16

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Collecting data is one thing; creating impact with it is an art that needs to be mastered. In the latest episode of The Curiosity Current, hosts Stephanie Vance and Matt Mahan welcome Karen Kraft, Associate Director of Consumer Insights at Johnsonville, to share her secrets behind the art and science of turning data into impact. From mastering the …

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Inclusive Marketing and the Future of Research: A Conversation with Tina Tonielli of Haleon 39:31

2M ago39:31

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In this episode of The Curiosity Current: A Market Research Podcast, hosts Stephanie and Matt are joined by Tina Tonielli, North America Lead for Consumer and Business Insights at Haleon, a global leader in consumer health, specializing in innovative solutions that prioritize everyday well-being. Tina discusses her journey from brand management to …

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Redefining Market Research: Insights from Leonard Murphy on Innovation and AI 41:56

3M ago41:56

41:56

In this episode of The Curiosity Current: A Market Research Podcast, hosts Stephanie and Matt are joined by Lenny Murphy, a trailblazer in market research and a thought leader in leveraging technology for transformative business impact. Known for his work with GreenBook and Gen2 Advisors, Lenny discusses his unconventional entry into the industry, …

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The Curiosity Current: A Market Research Podcast 1:04

3M ago1:04

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The Curiosity Current: A Market Research Podcast is handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.soBy Jessica Glace

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147 - Jonas Rinde: Building a hardware-software company in the audio industry, how to evaluate career opportunities, designing products and career advice for young people 52:59

2+ y ago52:59

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Today, we are introducing Jonas Rinde. He is the co-founder and CEO of Nomono, a cloud-based audio collaboration, and processing company built specifically for podcasters, broadcast journalists, audio storytellers, and many more. Audio workflow of the future. He has a long history of working in different industries and started working in the automo…

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146 - Macro Situation for Startups and Founders, Useful Resources to read about it and Availability Cascades 43:28

3y ago43:28

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Everyone's talking about it. The economy has not been looking good. Max and Mike discuss the current macro situation and what it means for startups, employees, and society as a whole. Recommendations READ Andreesen Horowitz: https://future.a16z.com/framework-valuation-navigating-down-markets/ Y Combinator: https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/19/yc-advis…

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145 - Stephan Heller: A crazy 15-year startup journey incl. IPO and Scaling at Groupon, Building Watchmaster.com, Angel Investing and building a fund of fund vehicle now 50:19

3y ago50:19

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"There was so much pain that just went into this and so much blood, sweat, and tears, personal commitment, you know, working really for three, four years, not sleeping, not having a personal life in that sense. And suddenly this whole thing, that's to fall apart." It didn't take long for founder and entrepreneur Stephan Heller to move on and start …

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144 - Pascal Bieri, Founder of Planted: Building a Food-Tech company through plant-based protein with over 150 people across Europe 35:04

3y ago35:04

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As the population grows exponentially and the demand for meat grows, producing meat has become increasingly unsustainable. Hungry to change that, Planted Foods has been revolutionizing the food chain. Pascal Bieri, one of its founders, joins us today and inspires us to rethink what we eat as he shares with us the whys and hows of producing meat fro…

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143 - Saket Kumar, Founder of Vitt: Future of SaaS Financing, VC, Writing a novel 52:49

3y ago52:49

52:49

Is getting a novel published comparable to getting a startup funded? Saket Kumar answers this question in this week’s episode. He freely takes us on an unexpected journey, from creating a novel to founding his current company. We also find out why he went from being a venture capitalist to becoming a founder and why he intends to stay for the long …

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142 - Favorite Gadgets and Managing Focus and Energy 36:41

3y ago36:41

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“I can now focus on things that I'm more uniquely suited to and that I'm just way better at that bring me more joy.” That is one thing that effective energy management can do for you. This week, Max and Mike talk about energy management. They talk about what they do, including how they structure their day to be the most productive. In this episode,…

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141 - Morning Routines, Yearly Goal Settting, Differences NYC and San Francisco 38:48

3y ago38:48

38:48

Unfortunately one of our guests needed to cancel last minute, we decided to record a duo episode with Mike and Max about things we're passionate about! We share thoughts on our morning routines, yearly goal setting, differences between NYC and San Francisco and many more things! Follow us on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and wherever you would like…

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140 - Jay Rosenkrantz: One of world's-leading online poker player to now building a Web3 playground for writers, artists an collectors 48:53

3y ago48:53

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Jay Rosenkrantz is using the Web3 world to build a playground for writers, artists,s and collectors. With his company Heroic Story, Jay and his brother are creating a new game, where players build stories and fantasy worlds together. Before, Jay was one of the leading online poker players in the world, coached poker player all over the world, creat…

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139 - Vaitea Cowan, Co-Founder at Enapter, about their way of making green hydrogen accessible and affordable for everyone 50:39

3+ y ago50:39

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Our guest today tries to prevent the climate crisis using the power of Green Hydrogen. Vaitea is a co-founder of Enapter, an award-winning company that is productizing the usage of hydrogen. Enapter is hiring. If you want to help save the world and work with amazing people like Vaitea, apply here: https://www.enapter.com/careers Other things that w…

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138 - Albert Gajsak: Building an AI-powered Batmobile Hardware Product with Warner Bros, Educating Kids about Technology through Electronic Devices, Covid impact on Supply Chains 44:11

3+ y ago44:11

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We have Albert Gajsak as a guest on the podcast today. Albert is a young founder who combines hardware and software with a team of 20 to develop electronic devices. Essentially with the purpose of teaching kids more about technology. Since its launch in 2017, Circuitmess has sold over 50,000 products to over 30000 customers - all over the world. Cu…

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137 - Finding Language Market Fit and Web3 40:45

3+ y ago40:45

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Everyone knows finding product market fit. But what about the Language? There's a concept which was presented by OpenView about Language-Market Fit - we found it inspiring and shared it with you through this way here. Furthermore, we talk about first insights into Web3 and our viewpoint on it. Language Market Fit Model by OpenView Beginner Guide to…

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136 - Michael Bervell: Writing a book, Interviewing Jack Ma and leading entrepreneurs, African's Startup Ecosystem, Angel Investing and building a non-profit in his early days 53:55

3+ y ago53:55

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The nest guest is on board - Michael Bervell. MIchael is a Ghanaian-American angel-investor, entrepreneur, and author. He's the author of "Unlocking Unicorns", a book about the stories and habits of leading entrepreneurs in Asia, Africa and the Middle East (e.g. he personally interviewed Jack Ma for the book). In 2007, he co-founded the non-profit …

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135 - Mathias Klenk, Passbase Founder: The Role of identity verification in today's world, winning first investors, comparison US and German Universities 51:41

3+ y ago51:41

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We had the chance to interview another Founder again, namely the Founder and current CTO of Passbase, Mathias Klenk. Passbase's goal is to "empower the world with a digital identity system that puts you, the individual, first". Mathias and we talked about the role of a human identitity, the importance of it in today's world, winning the first inves…

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134 - Asynchronous Working, Hiring, Books 44:00

3+ y ago44:00

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In this episode, we talked about asynchronous working with our teams and which tools we use, learnings from hiring people and books that we've recently read. Feel free to connect via Linkedin (leave a message) Max Mike

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133 - Eli Bressert, CEO & Co-Founder Origin: Building a travel company during COVID, San Francisco vs. Europe, Evaluating Machine Learning Opportunities in Products, Importance of Data Science 46:12

3+ y ago46:12

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Welcome back to the Feed Your Brain Podcast. Max and his co-host Mike interviewed another guest this time. Eli Bressert, Co-Founder and CEO of Origin. Origin provides you with the most personalized luxury trips based on who you are and what you want to experience next. Eli was a mentor at Singularity University, Head of Siri Platform Science & Insi…

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132 - How to raise a Seed Round 46:30

4y ago46:30

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Hi friends! For this episode we have chosen a little different format. For one reason. Mike just raised a 6.3 million seed round with his startup Blair. Since we have a lot of founders as listeners, we thought it would be exciting to take a look behind the curtain and understand how Mike and his team made it happen. So Max took the chance to ask hi…

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131 - Finding Your Personal Mission Statement 25:36

4y ago25:36

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Hey listeners, Mike and I talk about the value of finding your personal mission statement and how it can help you with staying focused on the things that actually drive value and happiness for you personally - especially when building companies and products. We'd be glad to get your feedback and hear about strategies and methodologies of you findin…

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130 - Nikolaus Volk, CEO of Kyte: Uber for Rental Cars, Mobility, Machine Learning at Kyte, Studying at Stanford 56:15

4y ago56:15

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Nikolaus Volk is the Founder and CEO of Kyte, a San-Francisco based Startup that delivers rental cars to your home. They help everyone to access rental cars with the simplicity of Uber. A few facts about Nik: He studied at Stanford and TU Munich He worked at Uber for a few years Kyte raised 9m for their expansion Offices in Munich and San Francisco…

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129 - Hey friends, I'm back & What we can learn from AirBnB 43:48

4+ y ago43:48

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I haven't been here for while, however, I thought of publishing this episode to keep you up to date on what's happening. Startups, Sparks and Serendipity Podcast with Mike Mahlkow and myself Find me on Linkedin

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128 - ULTRALEARNING (focusing on entrepreneurs) with Scott Young 48:11

5+ y ago48:11

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128 - ULTRALEARNING (focusing on entrepreneurs) with Scott Young His new book Ultralearning

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127 - PR For Startups with Carl Kronika 43:15

5+ y ago43:15

43:15

Carl Kronika is the 19-year-old founder of Copus. Copus is a leading PR agency, specialized on startups, in the Nordics and in Europe. Copus has around 10 employees and helps startups from all over to build up their PR strategy. Carl and I talk about the upsides of PR when to start PR as a general topic in a company how and when you can approach jo…

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126 with Wall-Street Bestselling Author Nir Eyal 45:51

5+ y ago45:51

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Nir Eyal is a known face in the tech- and entrepreneurship scene. He is a Wallstreet-Bestselling Author of the book 'Hooked - How To Build Habit Performing Products', a long-time entrepreneur and an angel investor in different tech startups like Anchor, Eventbrite or ProductHunt. In addition to that, he has been teaching at Stanford Graduate School…

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124 with Long-Time Marketing Icon Ted Rubin 47:24

5+ y ago47:24

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Ted Rubin has been been in the marketing space for decades now. In 1997, he started out working for Seth Godin at Yoyodyne where his career in the online industry began. Besides learning a lot from Seth, he went through the whole process of Yoyodyne being acquired in 1998 by Yahoo as well. He served as the Social Media advisor to Big Fuel Communica…

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123 - A World Of Digital Assistants - My Thoughts 20:17

5+ y ago20:17

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New Podcast EP: My Thoughts on A Future World Of Digital Assistants Digital Assistants such as Amazon Alexa or the Google Assistant have become a big role in the daily life’s of millions of people. Every 5th person in the US has access to a smart speaker nowadays. But - how will a future of digital assistants look like? And what do they have to wit…

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122 mit Jan Halberstadt von TIER Mobility: Wie baut man eine E-Scooter Firma operativ in den Städten auf? 43:40

5+ y ago43:40

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Was muss operativ beim Roll-Out einer E-Scooter Marke in den Städten beachtet werden? E-Scooter und die Mobilitätslösung für die letzte Meile sind nun allen bekannt. Um operativ in die Prozesse der letzten Wochen und Monate tiefer einblicken zu können, habe ich Jan Halberstadt von TIER Mobility angefragt.Nach seiner Zeit als Head of Sales Germany b…

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121 with Taylor Ryan: Marketing in 2019, Connecting Corporates and Startups, Learnings from building different startups 41:00

6y ago41:00

41:00

121 with Taylor Ryan: Marketing in 2019, Connecting Corporates and Startups, Learnings from building different startupsBy Max Elster

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120 with Philipp Skogstad: President and CEO at Mercedes Benz Research & Development North America 53:56

6y ago53:56

53:56

Philipp leads all the endeavours related to future and innovation topics at Mercedes-Benz in North America and has a big outlook on everything related to change management and innovation processes.By Max Elster

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119 mit Sven Oliver Pink als Gründer von Fond Of: Wie baut man mit 200 Mitarbeitern eine gesunde und potenzialentfaltende Kultur auf? 51:31

6y ago51:31

51:31

Sven-Oliver Pink gründete im Jahr 2010 die Firma Fond Of. Mit mittlerweile über 200 Mitarbeitern und führenden Produkten hat er es im Gründerteam geschafft, eine weiterhin großartige und potenzialentfaltende Kultur aufzubauen. Wie er das geschafft hat...By Max Elster

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118 mit Robin Moser von Eyecandylab: 2.5 Jahre Review als First Time Founder und Zukunft von AR 45:28

6y ago45:28

45:28

Episode 118, Ladies and Gentlemen. Robin Moser ist als Gründer von Eyecandylab zu Gast. Eyecandylab hat seinen Hauptsitz in San Francisco und entwickelt eine AR-Linse für Videos, welches jedem Content Creator die Möglichkeit liefert, ein AR-Linse über jedes Video zu legen. Über die 2.5 Jahre als Gründer hat Robin es geschafft, Partner wie Nickolode…

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117 mit Dr. Aaron Brückner: Model, Autor und Berater in einer Person 50:06

6y ago50:06

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Aaron Brückner modelte mit den bekanntesten Fotografen, schreibt mit den Top-Verlagen seine Bücher und hilft mittelständischen und großen Unternehmen als Berater.Aaron ist promovierter Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, internationales Fotomodell und Autor mehrere Bücher mit Top-Verlagen. Sein Ziel als Berater ist es heute, Unternehmen und Persönlichkeite…

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116 mit Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner: Top 30 Ökonom in Deutschland (FAZ) und Head of Frankfurt School Blockchain Center über den Status Quo und die Zukunft der Blockchain 52:42

6y ago52:42

52:42

Prof. Dr Philipp Sandner gehört mit seinen 39 Jahren zu den absoluten Vordenkern der Finanzindustrie. Philipp leitet das anerkannte Frankfurt School Blockchain Center an der Frankfurt School of Finance, wurde von der FAZ zu den Top 30 Ökonomen in Deutschland und von der Capital zu den "40 unter 40" ausgezeichnet. Darüber hinaus ist er Mitglied des …

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115 with Christoph Windheuser: Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at ThoughtWorks about 30 years of working in the AI field 54:20

6y ago54:20

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Christoph Windheuser is a long-term face of the discipline of Artificial Intelligence. In the late 80s and early 90s, he studied Neural Networks in Bonn and at the Carnegie Mellon University in the States. Besides also taking courses about neural networks in Tokyo, he finished his Phd in Paris about the topic of speech recognition. A time in which …

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114 with Rod Dowler: Former European High Tech Partner at KMPG and CEO of several tech companies 43:41

6y ago43:41

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Rod Dowler has been in the technology space for decades. Rod has been the former European High Tech Partner of KPMG and now invests in companies and cares about the future of humanity. He led the European High Technology practice at KMPG as a Partner, ran his consultancy before that for 15 years and has invested in different companies. In addition …

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113 with David Schnurman, President of the EO Organization in New York and Founder of LawLine: How do you focus to accelerate success? 49:50

6y ago49:50

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David Schnurman is the President of the Entrepreneurs Organization in New York and the Co-founder of Lawline, the largest provider of online education for the legal services in the US. We will chat about his journey to become an entrepreneur.By Max Elster

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112 with the Inventor of the Taser and CEO of Axon, Rick Smith: How do you use technology to prevent people from killing? 50:50

6y ago50:50

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Rick Smith, as the founder and CEO of Axon, is passionate to end killing on a global basis through technology and technological advancements. Incredible mission - keep listening.By Max Elster

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111 with Award-Winning Author and UX Specialist Jeff Gothelf: How do you set up an organization to deliver high-quality products? 39:13

6y ago39:13

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Jeff Gothelf is a well-known author who among others wrote the award-winning book "Lean UX". Jeff helps organisations build better products and executives build the cultures in order to build great products.By Max Elster

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110 mit Starmind Gründer Pascal Kaufmann: Was hat künstliche Intelligenz mit der Struktur des Gehirn zu tun? 36:06

6y ago36:06

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Pascal Kaufmann ist studierter Neurowissenschaftler und Mitgründer von Starmind. Starmind ist eine KI für Menschen: Ob für Mitarbeiter oder Community-Mitglieder, sie bauen eine hochmoderne KI, die mit Neurowissenschaften angereichert ist, damit die Organisationen von morgen ihre kollektive menschliche Intelligenz nutzen können. Unter den Kunden wer…

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109 with Misha Yurchenko about doing business in Tokyo, blockchain ecosystems and personal fulfillment 44:34

6y ago44:34

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Misha Yurchenko is a Tokyo-based blogger and entrepreneur interested in the blockchain industry and the development of personal fulfillment!By Max Elster

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108 mit dem ehem. Rocket Internet Kommunikationschef und Earlybird Partner Andreas Winiarski 53:25

6y ago53:25

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Andreas Winiarski gehört zu den bekanntesten Thought Leadern in der Digitalszene als ehemaliger PR-Chef von Rocket Internet, VC-Partner bei Earlybird und jetziger Chairman von awesome capital. Zurzeit ist er öfter in China, da er mit awesome die Synergie aus China und Europa für Startups öffnen möchte als VC-Fund. Wer mehr über die Unterschiede Chi…