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 automobile industry due to his interest. Later, he led the R&D department at Tandberg, which was sold for 3.3 billion to Cisco where he became a board member of Cisco Systems in Norway. Continuously built and sold companies, and lastly with Huddly as the CEO.
We talked about his way of choosing opportunities to work on, designing products, his new company Nomono, his thoughts about books, and his career advice.
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-advises-founders-to-plan-for-the-worst/
Sequoia:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/sequoia-capital-plays-nostradamus-again/
LISTEN
Craft ventures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkzm4a7iY4
All-IN Podcast or YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOIBfZcwbQ
All-IN Podcast or YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcyec3pvAEY
Let’s Connect!
"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 something new after selling his previous company. In this episode, Stephan reflects on his experiences working with startups over the years and shares the lessons he's learned. We also learn about his current project, AlphaQ, which was founded with the goal of creating an innovative, unique fund of funds structure that has the vision of being listed on the stock exchange and thus democratizing access to venture capital.
Learn more about AlphaQ Venture Capital:
https://www.aqvc.com/
Stephan’s Recommendations
To read:
Ray Dalio Books
The Score Takes Care of Itself
To watch:
Let’s Connect!
Connect with Stephan
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 from alternative proteins.
Be part of the food revolution:
https://en.eatplanted.com/karriere
Where to find Pascal’s recommendations: NPR
Let’s Connect!
Connect with Pascal
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 haul.
Saket is the co-founder and CEO of Vitt, a company that provides fast and non-diluted funding for growing SaaS businesses. For three years, he worked as an early-stage venture capitalist.
Learn more about Vitt:
Read Saket’s short stories:
<link>
Book Recommendations:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
How Music Works by David Byrne
Let’s Connect!
“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, they also let us take a peek at some of their favorite gadgets!
Read about Narratives, Commitments, and Tasks (NCTs): https://www.reforge.com/blog/set-better-goals-with-ncts-not-okrs
Get the Gadgets:
Razer Blackshark V2 Pro Gaming Headset
Let’s Connect!
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 to :)
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, created the most popular comedy series about poker which was featured on ESPN, and built the largest online poker training platform.
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 were mentioned during the call:
- The Earth Shot Prize: https://earthshotprize.org/
- The Wise Heart: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1920089.The_Wise_Heart
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. Currently, they are working with Warner Bros on a special launch of a Batmobile toy, called CircuitMess Batmobile™. The product raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter in just a few hours.
Their products give kids the opportunity to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in a fun way.
Together, Mike, Max, and Albert talked about the following topics:
We look forward to hearing from you. Feel free to get in touch with us on any channel.
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 Crypto:
https://creatoreconomy.so/p/curious-beginner-guide-to-crypto
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-1-starting-with-bankless
Book recommendation: Continuous Discovery by Teresa Torres
Interview with Tim Ferris and Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant
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 "Hugs for" where he funraised over 500,000 $ in materials and monetary donations and impacted over 300,000 youths around the world. Because of his work, Bervell was awarded the National Caring Award in 2015 (alongside Pope Francis, Dikembe Mutombo, and 7 others).
He became the youngest President of the Harvard Club of Seattle and a former member of the Harvard Alumni Association after he studied in Harvard himself.
His various efforts led to a diverse set of awards, such as the GE-Lloyd Trotter Scholar (2018), World Internet Conference Wuzhen Scholar (2017), Walter C. Klein Scholar (2017), United Health Foundation Scholar (2016), Deutsche Bank Rise Into Success Scholar (2016), Blacks at Microsoft Scholar (2016) and many more.
We talked about this new book "Unlocking Unicorns", African's tech ecosystem, angel investing and many more topics.
Source: Michael's Website
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 investors and the differences between studying at Stanford vs. studying in a German university.
Find out more about Passbase here: https://passbase.com/
And connect with Mathias on Linkedin here.
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)
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 & Insights at Apple, Head of Data Science at Convoy and worked in Data Engineering and Analytics.
He studied Mathematics and Astronomy and did his PhD in Astronomy.
Together with Eli, we talked about
Connect with Eli on all channels, find his Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elibressert/ - and check out his new company Origin here: https://www.origin.me/
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 him all the important questions about the round!
Feel free to let us know on the social media channels if you enjoyed it. You can find us everywhere as @MaxElster and @MikeMahlkow.
Talk soon!
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 finding your personal mission statement. Let us know via DMs or on Linkedin/Twitter how you found your vision/purpose!
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Max and Mike
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:
We talked about:
In case you like it, feel free to subscribe. :)
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
128 - ULTRALEARNING (focusing on entrepreneurs) with Scott Young