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Feed Your Brain Podcast

Max Elster and Mike Mahlkow

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We are living in a world of exponential growth, social instabilities and radical innovations. The generations coming up have the urgent responsibility to not just react, but act through digitalization in order to retain this planet earth. Technology changes and digital innovations will help to start the journey efficiently. In order to document which technologies will change the way how we enjoy living and which leadership tactics will be needed, Max and Mike interview different thought lead ...
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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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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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"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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Fabian Westerheide als führender Experte der künstlichen Intelligenz spricht mit mir über die notwendigen Schritte, die wir in Deutschland machen müssen, um sinnhafte Geschäftsmodelle beruhend auf AI zu entwickeln.By Max Elster
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Daniel G. Siegel ist als Digitalexperte, Speaker und Gründer der weltweit führenden Platform für Modedesigner Not Just A Label zu Gast. Wir sprechen über die Möglichkeiten des Taekwondo, die üblichen Fehler aus der Positionierung und effiziente Digitalwebsites. SHOWNOTESDaniel G. Siegel's Webseite The Anatomy of a Perfect Website Finding the Right …
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Die Convidera ist eine aus über 90 Personen bestehende, führende Digitalberatung mit Kunden wie der Deutschen Post DHL Group, Vodafone oder vielen Mittelständlern wie z.B. GIRA oder Viessmann.Das Unternehmen ist in der Lage, über eigene Entwickler, Designer, UX Experten und Business-affinen Menschen komplette Digitalprojekte mitzusteuern und zu beg…
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Karl Heinz Land ist einer der Digitalpioniere der ersten Stunde in Deutschland. Seit über 35 Jahren gestaltet er aktiv die Digitalisierung mit Führungspositionen bei Oracle, BusinessObjects (SAP) oder auch MicroStrategy. Zudem gründete er diverse Unternehmen im Digital- und Techbereich und investierte selber in diverse Technologiestartups. Schon 20…
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Florian Kollewijn ist ein langer Weggefährte. Schon vor einigen Jahren konnte ich beobachten, wie Florian und das Team die Chancen eG gegründet haben, um Bildungsfinanzierung in Deutschland und mittlerweile auch in Afrika neu gestalten.By Max Elster
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THANK YOU FOR 100 EPISODES!!! For the 100th anniversary, I wanted to invite Barney as the President of K-Swiss to talk about the Ups and Downs of a cultural brand that has fundamentally impacted my life since I'm 8 years old.K-Swiss is not just a cultural brand to lots of us. It's a brand that has experienced ups and downs. Through a positioning of…
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Deutsche Familienunternehmen sind weiterhin ein wichtiger und essenzieller Bestandteil der deutschen Wirtschaft. Doch was bedeutet es eigentlich wirklich, über mehr als ein Jahrhundert ein Unternehmen weiterzuentwickeln?Dr. David Klett als MD des Klett Verlags gibt Einblick in die spannenden Geschichten des Familienunternehmens, welches 1897 gegrün…
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Candidate Select macht es Unternehmen möglich, akademische Abschlüsse fair miteinander zu vergleichen. Inwiefern sie einen eigenen Algorithmus entwickelt haben und wie Philipp auf die Zukunft der Bildung setzt, erfahrt ihr im Interview.By Max Elster
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