Best Frankfurt School Podcasts (2024)

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#11 Nurturing Unicorns: How WHU Business School prepared the road for their six alumni-founded companies with $1bn+ valuations 28:47

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A while back, WHU Business School earned recognition as one of Europe’s top "unicorn universities," a title that reflects its track record of producing successful entrepreneurs. With campuses in Vallendar and Düsseldorf, Germany, WHU boasts an impressive list of alumni, including founders of high-growth companies like Forto, FlixBus, and SumUp. In …

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#224 Important Things to Look for in MBA & EMBA Programs with Prof. Steven DeKrey, HKUST Business School 50:06

2d ago50:06

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Steven DeKrey, Senior Advisor and Professor Emeritus at HKUST Business School, has over 40 years of experience in building and running top-ranked MBA programs worldwide, including at Northwestern Kellogg, the University of Florida, Asian Institute of Management and HKUST, where he was Founding Director of the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program. Darren asks…

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#10 From Data Scientist at Microsoft to Raising $19M with his Own Startup: Peter Fishman’s Journey with Mozart Data 43:36

6d ago43:36

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In this episode, we sit down with Peter Fishman, a data scientist whose journey took him from prestigious roles at Microsoft and Walt Disney to launching his own startup. Peter is the founder behind Mozart Data, a startup that simplifies the data consolidation and analysis process, making it accessible to a wider audience. Having navigated Mozart D…

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#9 Navigating the Skincare Revolution with Forbes 30 Under 30 and Clear's CEO Ahana Banerjee 1:14:23

13d ago1:14:23

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In this episode, Ahana Banerjee, CEO of Clear, recounts her journey from a physics student at Imperial College London to founding a social commerce app for skincare. Her hard work on the project led her to Y Combinator, and a Forbes 30 under 30 award, despite all the struggles she had as a female founder who was, as she put it “often dismissed due …

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Solidarische Stadt: Soziale Kämpfe und ein Masterplan gegen Armut 1:00:50

15d ago1:00:50

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Ein Gespräch mit Katja Kipping, Andrej Holm und Susanne Hinneberg, moderiert von Isette Schuhmacher In dieser Folge spricht Isette Schuhmacher mit Katja Kipping, der ehemaligen Berliner Senatorin für Integration, Arbeit und Soziales, dem Stadtforscher und Aktivisten Andrej Holm und Susanne Hinneberg, die für querstadtein e.V. Stadtrundgänge zum The…

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The Italian Communist Party: From Resistance to Dissolution 1:55:12

15d ago1:55:12

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James, Steven and Rudy sit down to talk about the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from its foundation to its dissolution, with a focus on its period of maximum influence from the post-WW2 refoundation to the unraveling of the Historic Compromise in 1980 as well as the differences and similarities to the French Communist Party. We discuss the founding…

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#8 Scaling a Startup to $50M ARR: Timeless Wisdom From Diane Prince’s First Step in a 30-Year Entrepreneurial Journey 27:48

19d ago27:48

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This episode shines a spotlight on Diane Prince, whose entrepreneurial career launched with a bang through her first venture, Onstaff, which quickly grew to a $50M ARR business. Diane's journey didn’t stop there; it was merely the beginning of a 30-year-long odyssey through the startup ecosystem, where she built multiple startups, achieving five su…

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#7 Pioneering Efficiency in AI and Raising $22M in the Process: Latent AI's Journey with Jags Kandasamy 48:56

27d ago48:56

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In this episode, we're thrilled to welcome Jags Kandasamy, a visionary entrepreneur whose latest venture, Latent AI, is setting new standards in the artificial intelligence sector. Founded in 2018, Latent AI has quickly garnered success, securing over $22M in funding through its unique approach to AI development. Jags and his team are on a mission …

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#6 Building the first African-focused FinTech company to list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with Louwrens Van Schalkwyk 54:47

1M ago54:47

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Join us as we sit down with Louwrens Van Schalkwyk, a seasoned entrepreneur with a rich background in building and leading companies in the Fintech sector. Today, we're diving deep into one of his hallmark ventures, MyBucks. This Fintech giant has made headlines for its comprehensive range of financial solutions, from insurance to banking, marking …

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#5 Building the 2nd Most Influential Fintech Brand in the World With Scripbox CEO & Co-Founder Atul Shinghal 34:28

1M ago34:28

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A few years ago, Atul saw an inefficiency in the way insurance products were sold in India. Calling on his two decades of Fintech experience and expertise, he set out to solve it with his company, Scripbox. Atul had to take a lot of time and effort to educate the market that their money would be safe. As people at the time weren’t used to digital b…

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#4 How to Network Your Way Into a Unicorn Startup With Varo Bank Co-Founder Roger Van Duinen 1:04:51

2M ago1:04:51

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Today’s guest, Roger Van Duinen is the co-founder of Varo Money – an “entirely new kind of bank” that uses tech to bring financial inclusion and opportunity to all of its users. With 25 years of experience working as a C-level executive in the banking and financial services sector – he brought a lot of industry expertise to the table. In that time,…

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#3 Raising $30M from a Dorm Room With Indico CTO & Co-Founder Slater Victoroff 41:48

2M ago41:48

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Back in 2013, Slater and his co-founder had an idea in their dorm room – to revolutionise the data industry by creating a platform that takes raw data and structures it, enabling you to build innovative, mission-critical enterprise workflows. The idea quickly gained interest as they were accepted into Techstars Boston – and before long, Slater was …

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#223 How to 3x Your Chances to Top 10 MBA Programs with Melody Jones, Vantage Point MBA 46:40

2M ago46:40

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Melody Jones, Co-Founder of Vantage Point MBA Admissions Consulting, has been helping applicants get into top 10 MBA programs for over a decade. How does Vantage Point help applicants triple their chances compared to other applicants? Melody shares key learnings, examples and questions you can use right away to craft a compelling application. Topic…

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The New Thing: Jazz Music in the Cold War, 1950-1970 with Christian Noakes 55:07

2M ago55:07

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Jackson and Donald are joined by Christian Noakes author of Do It Yourself, Brother: Cultural Autonomy and the New Thing to discuss jazz music and musicians during the Cold War. We cover the U.S. state department's attempts to weaponize Jazz for imperial cultural diplomacy and how artists in the Jazz avant-garde of the 1950s-60s resisted the exploi…

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#2 Solving One Problem: Taulia Co-Founder Maex Ament on Building an Industry-Leading Company with Over 1.8M Clients 48:07

2M ago48:07

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Today’s guest, Markus (Maex) Ament, is the founder behind Taulia, a leading provider of working capital solutions with over 1.8 million companies using it across the globe – including Airbus, Nissan & the UK Government. And, like most successful companies, it began with a problem. In Taulia’s case, that problem was liquidity: “When a company invoic…

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„A Precarious Happiness“ – Peter E. Gordon on the Sources of Normativity in Adorno 1:12:48

2M ago1:12:48

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In this episode, Marvin Ester interviews Peter E. Gordon about his new book, 'Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity.' Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History and a faculty affiliate in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Government, and Philosophy at Harvard University. In 'Precarious Happiness,' …

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#1 From Humble Roots to Raising over $2.5B in funding With Kabbage Co-Founder Kathryn Petralia 36:51

2M ago36:51

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Back in 2008, Kathryn Petralia and her founding team had a vision. To use technology to give small businesses the funding tools they need to grow and scale their companies. A few months later, Kabbage was born. The platform quickly evolved and grew to not just provide loans to SMEs, but a full suite of cash management solutions for founders and ent…

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Sports and Straight Edge in Red Vienna with Gabriel Kuhn 43:25

2M ago43:25

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We join Gabriel Kuhn, author of books like Soccer vs. the State and Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a militant working-class culture for a discussion on sports, sobriety and also the ways Austromarxism applied these principles during the interwar period. We discuss Gabriel's attraction to the Straight Edge movement as well as its contemporar…

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#222 Mid-Career MBA Alternatives with Richard Campbell (HBS Program for Leadership Development, LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership & Strategy, 500 Global Accelerator) 1:03:06

3M ago1:03:06

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What should you do if you have 10+ years of working experience but are looking for an MBA-type experience to build your skills and network? Richard Campbell, Founder and CEO of 10Adventures, joins the show to discuss his experience with three mid-career MBA alternatives: Harvard Business School's Program for Leadership Development (HBS PLD), London…

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Nasserism and the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 1:45:17

3M ago1:45:17

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Rudy, Andrew and Eric sit down to discuss Egypt from its origins as an independent polity under Mehmed Ali up to the Sadat years, with a focus on the Nasserist revolutionary period. We discuss the origins and aims of the 1952 coup and revolution, the relationship between communists and Nasser(ism), the three periods of Nasserism, the national and i…

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Escaping the Constitutional Bind with Aziz Rana 1:22:07

3M ago1:22:07

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Donald and Luke talk with Aziz Rana about his latest book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them. Rana discusses why constitutional veneration has remained (for now) "a naturalized, unremarked-upon feature” of American life despite the Constitution's flagrantly undemocratic nature. Along the way, he touch…

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The Making of a Working Class Revolutionary: an Interview with Jerome Scott 1:23:52

3M ago1:23:52

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We sit down with Jerome Scott, former Detroit Auto worker and founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers to learn about Black working-class radicalizing during the Vietnam War and Detroit uprisings and to get advice on directions for the revolutionary movement today.

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Artificial Intelligence 1:56:15

4M ago1:56:15

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Ian, Nico, Matt, Chas and Rudy join for a general discussion on artificial intelligence. They cover the early origins of AI as a field, with the debates of the time, all the way up to the present state. They then discuss what to expect from AI in the near future, and give aspects where the prospects may be optimistic, pessimistic or neutral. They f…

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#221 Excellent Advice for Living (and MBA Applications!) 28:38

4M ago28:38

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Inspired by Kevin Kelly's Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I Knew Earlier, Darren shares 10 bits of wisdom that could materially improve your chances of getting into business school and building a successful career. Topics Introduction (0:00) School Selection (3:00) Support Network (8:20) Positioning (10:30) Resumes (15:45) Essays (20:05)…

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The Frankfurt School in Context (1923-69) 2:22:36

4M ago2:22:36

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Exir, Toby and Jackson join for a discussion on the (in)famous Frankfurt School. They discuss the history of the Institute for Social Research from its founding as a think tank for the study of the workers’ movement, through the turn to critical theory and empirical social research in the 1930s, its flight to America in the wake of the Nazis’ rise …

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Mining and the Environment with Martin Lallana 1:05:17

5M ago1:05:17

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Rudy joins Martín Lallana for an introductory discussion on mining. We talk about the importance of mining to capitalism, the ecological impacts of different kind of mining, the way that the materials extracted have changed along history focusing on the materials needed for an energy transition and the way the Ukranian war has changed the needs of …

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Jihadism and Military Juntas in the Sahel with Alexander Thurston 1:03:33

5M ago1:03:33

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Rob joins Alexander Thurston for a discussion on his work on the Sahel region, focusing on the interplay between radical Islamic groups, the civilian governments/military juntas of the regions and international players like the US and France. They discuss the social basis of the groups, the role of different countries and different armies, the reas…

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[REMASTER] Communism in the Colours of France: The French Communist Party (1920-2024) 2:33:42

5M ago2:33:42

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Steven, James and Rudy sit down for a long discussion on the French Communist Party from its inception all the way to its present state. We cover all the periods in its history: the Pre-WW2 Popular Front, the post WW2 entrance into government, its isolation, and its coming back into government with Mitterrand in the 80s, before discussing its decli…

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#220 GLOBIS MBA Program & Admissions Interview with Tomoya Nakamura - "Find Your Kokorozashi" 1:14:49

5M ago1:14:49

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Sometimes, it's hard to differentiate MBA programs. That is not the case with GLOBIS University, Japan's number 1 MBA, which prizes entrepreneurial skills, societal impact, and helping its students find their kokorozashi (personal mission). Professor Tomoya Nakamura, President of GLOBIS USA, discusses what makes the GLOBIS MBA unique, the school's …

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The Value of Dune: a Communistic Perspective 21:23

5M ago21:23

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Rejecting recent interpretations in the U.S. socialist press as truistic, Jackson Albert Mann makes a case for a particular communistic reading of the first novel in Frank Herbert’s Dune franchise. Read By: A Darlymple Intro Music: ворожное озеро Гроза vwqp remix Outro Music: We are Friends Forever performed by Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment.…

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Vergesellschaftung 1:01:15

5M ago1:01:15

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Vergesellschaftung erlebt gegenwärtig in der öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatte ein Revival. Es ist vor allem der Kampagne Deutsche Wohnen und Co enteignen zu verdanken, dass das Konzept heute erneut aufs Tableau gebracht wurde und, auch über den Bereich des Wohnens hinaus, als politische Alternative und Strategie sozialer Veränderung zurü…

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Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War with Volodymyr Ishchenko 1:14:02

5M ago1:14:02

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Rudy joins Volodymyr Ishchenko, author of Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War, for a discussion on Ukraine and the broader post-Soviet sphere. We discuss the formation of the Ukranian identity under the USSR, the story of Ukraine after independence through the Orange Revolution, Euromaidan and up to the recent war, and the failures of its…

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