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018 – Revolutionising shipping with Twill and Maersk

Troels Støvring is the CEO and Co-Founder of Twill, a Maersk innovation that focuses on making shipping containers all over the world, easy and clear. In this podcast we discuss their challenges but also the amazing world of shipping which is going through a digital transformation and Twill is contributing to that. How about the […]

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017 – Anything for a smile at Coolblue

Paul de Raaij is Technology Lead at Coolblue. Coolblue is one of the biggest e-commerce websites in The Netherlands and Belgium. We talk about everything from how they organize their teams to what they use to run their platforms. Their mantra is “Anything for a smile”, find out how they do that in this podcast. […]

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016 – Shaping your company culture with Peddy

Ergin Borova is the Co-Founder of Peddy, a new and innovative way to reach your personal goals within your company and get rid of the old way of working with evaluations. We talked about leadership, how this creates new company cultures and also his vision about the way companies should operate. If you liked this […]

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015 – Innovating online grocery shopping with Appie Fly

Renate Sportel is Innovation Manager at Albert Heijn Online (www.ah.nl). The Albert Heijn Labs team thinks about, conceptualises, builds and tests new innovations in their online store. One of their innovations is Appie Fly. Appie Fly is created by Albert Heijn and Transavia and is a new way to order a grocery package on vacation […]

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014 – Developing products at the biggest news website in The Netherlands

Niels Kaspers is Product Manager at Nu.nl, the biggest news website in The Netherlands with over 2 million unique users a day. They are part of Sanoma which has multiple publications and in this podcast we discussed how they test new features and concepts, but also how they work together with Sanoma. Enjoyed this podcast? […]

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013 – Running bol.com, the biggest e-commerce platform in The Netherlands

Menno Vis is IT Director Retail at bol.com. Bol.com is one of the largest e-commerce websites of The Netherlands and part of Ahold Delhaize which also includes supermarket chain Albert Heijn. In this podcast we talked about how they organize, hire and innovate at bol.com and also how new channels will change e-commerce in the […]

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012 – Grocery shopping in a digital world with Picnic

Daniel Gebler is CTO at Picnic, an online grocery store. They are trying to crack the formula to get groceries to your door, swift and fresh. To do this they employ a mobile app to do all your groceries and multiple warehouses and hubs in cities to make deliveries that can be delivered in a […]

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011 – Artificial Intelligence doesn’t exist, or does it?

Amir Sabirovic is COO at TM7 Innovations and they built a platform for Natural Language Processing. This platform makes it easy for companies to process large amounts of documents and scan for things like personal data. We also talk about Articifial Intelligence, because the standpoint of Amir is that AI doesn’t exist. Will robots take […]

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010 – Are there still going to be websites in the future?

Heini Withagen is CTO and Co-Founder of Mirabeau, one of the biggest digital agencies in The Netherlands. They were acquired in December of 2016 by Cognizant. In this podcast we discussed about what this acquisition meant for them and also what he thought about the future of websites and exciting things like lenses with built-in […]

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Why and How I Started the Bits vs Bytes podcast

Around July of 2018 I started looking at doing a podcast, one of the reasons being that I had just discovered the phenomenon of listening to podcasts in my commute to work. I was amazed about how much quality content there is available in podcasts of 30 to 60 minutes.