Daniëlle Koeken is the founder of qlinker (www.qlinker.nl), the first fully digital housing company in The Netherlands. Started as a startup by housing company Mitros in Utrecht it aims to provide social housing completely through digital channels like chat and Whatsapp. Being the first of it’s kind comes with a lot of challenges but also […]
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Bob van Luijt (www.bob.wtf) is the founder at SeMI (www.semi.network/), and together with his team he is creating a decentralised knowledge graph called Weaviate. They are trying to be an open alternative to existing knowledge graphs made by Google and Amazon. Enjoyed this podcast? You will also like the one with VMC.ai.
Ali Niknam is the founder of Bunq, the first fully digital bank of the Netherlands. In this podcast we discussed all the challenges that were faced by Ali and his team in creating and starting a tech company in one of the most regulated sectors in the world. Other topics in this podcast are cryptocurrency, […]
Jochem Verheul is the CEO and co-founder of VMC, an innovative platform based on blockchain technology used in multiple projects. Their goal is to create a platform where mobility providers can connect to and use, for example for payments but also for ride information. We also talk about blockchain in general, and the confusion and […]
Arnoud Martens is the Managing Director of Valtech Netherlands, which in turn is part of Valtech, a large digital agency with more than 2500+ people employed in 16 countries. Valtech Netherlands was created by the acquisition of eFocus. And we talked about this transition, what it meant but also the bigger strategy behind this acquisition. […]
Tim Zuidgeest is the co-founder of ST&T Research. They specialize in a new form of measuring the impact of marketing called neuromarketing. They use multiple techniques like eye-tracking but also EEG (Electroencephalography). EEG used to measure electrical brainwaves to see how people respond to certain bits and pieces of for example advertisement. Another field they […]
024 – Startup Investment with Keadyn
Ohad Gilad is the co-founder at Keadyn, an investment company that invests in numerous technological startups. He is also one of the founders of WeTechRotterdam, a startup hub that tries to bring together startups from Rotterdam under one roof. We talked about startup investment and also what the dynamic is of being an investor. And […]
023 – How to grow and scale a digital agency
Paul Manuel is one of the founders of Dept, a large full-service digital agency. They have grown a lot over the last few years, buying companies with different focusses and bringing them al together in Dept. Some of Dept’s clients include Microsoft, Adidas, Philips and many more. We talked about their strategy and also some […]
022 – Company cultures in a banking world
Ron Kersic is Enterprise Architect at ING. His role primarily revolves around helping creating a company culture that is rooted in platform thinking. He is also co-author of the ING platform architecture curriculum. We discussed how he has contributed to changes within ING, but also company culture in general and also the challenges banks face […]
Stefan Leijnen has been CTO for ‘Can’t Wait to Learn’, a programme developed by War Child Holland and its partners, since August 2017. Can’t Wait to Learn aims to provide quality education to children affected by conflicts. By playing educational games on tablets, children can keep on learning mathematics and reading. Working in resource constrained […]