Beste Catch The Tornado Podcast Podcasts (2024)

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61. beCommerce with Björn Dröschel, Managing Director Product & Technology at fulfillmenttools 24:17

3y ago24:17

24:17

In today's episode, Markus Lorenz speaks to Björn Dröschel, the Product & Technology Managing Director at fulfillmenttools. The platform merges eCommerce with their client's store network, supporting processes like order entry, shipping, click and collect, returns while offering a perfect omnichannel shopping experience for retail customers. In thi…

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60. Catch the Tornado with Kristian Tysander, co-founder and CEO of Brink Commerce 23:21

3y ago23:21

23:21

Brink Commerce is a high performing, serverless, headless e-commerce SaaS platform for medium to large enterprise customers. Today Piotr speaks to Kristian Tysander, who has helped build the business from the ground up, but has had a huge impact on the architecture behind it. Krystian shares with the listeners the 3 main principles that Brink Comme…

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59. Catch the Tornado with Brad Buda, co-founder of Census 44:40

3y ago44:40

44:40

In today’s episode, Piotr Karwatka speaks to Brad Buda, the co-founder of Census - an operational analytics platform. Census boasts that it's the easiest way to sync your customer data in all of the available tools and claims to be the best app to get your sales & marketing teams on the same page. Today Piotr speaks to Brad about how joining Amazon…

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58. beCommerce with Julien Lemoine, Co-founder & CTO at Algolia 40:27

3y ago40:27

40:27

Julien Lemoine, the Co-founder & CTO at Algolia, an Enterprise Search Software company, is an entrepreneur passionate about software development, product development, and algorithmics. In this episode, Markus Lorenz speaks to Julien about building a development team at a huge scale, the development of the role of the CTO in a fast-growing company, …

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57. Balance IT on being Planet Heroes with their co-founder Przemysław Pyziel 35:48

3y ago35:48

35:48

Planet Heroes is the world's first ecological crowdfunding platform. This start-up was established in Poland and has already been recognized by the United Nations. The platform collects funds for pro-ecological activities by allowing you to sponsor each other in exchange for cleaning different public spaces like parks or beaches. So how does the pl…

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56. Catch the Tornado with Michael Vax, commerce of tomorrow trainer, (ex Hybris, Spryker, Elasticpath) 35:08

3y ago35:08

35:08

Michael Vax has over 20 years of leadership experience across the Digital Commerce landscape. He has led the development of eCommerce platforms at Hybris, Spryker, and Elasticpath. With this extensive experience, he is currently helping customers up-skill their teams in Digital Commerce, develop innovative roadmaps and boost their market growth in …

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55. beCommerce with Philipp Barthold, Chief Technology Officer at mytheresa.com 31:32

3y ago31:32

31:32

Mytheresa is one of the leading global luxury fashion e-commerce platforms shipping to over 130 countries. Founded as a boutique in 1987, Mytheresa launched online in 2006 and offers a highly curated edit of over 200 luxury brands with ready-to-wear, shoes, bags and accessories for womenswear, menswear and kidswear. Today Markus Lorenz and Philipp …

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54. Catch the Tornado with Humberto Ayres Pereira, CEO of Rows.com 35:36

3y ago35:36

35:36

In this week's Catch the Tornado episode Piotr speaks to Humberto Ayres Pereira, CEO of Rows.com. Rows is not just another spreadhseet. It's a revamped, and tailored to fit the needs of increasingly tech savvy users, no code/low code platform that lets people populate and analyze web apps using a spreadsheet interface. It offers many extended funct…

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53. Balance IT. on hydroponics and vertical farming with Brent Downey, founder of Urban Stalk 48:56

3y ago48:56

48:56

Urban Stalk is a Canadian company using leading technology in vertical farming such as precision-based agriculture, micro-controlled environmental production, circularity, IoT and automation to improve people's access to nutritious food and reduce the environmental impact of food production. Urban Stalk has incorporated food production processes fr…

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52. Catch the Tornado with Nate Stewart, Head of Strategy at BigCommerce 41:08

3y ago41:08

41:08

BigCommerce is an eCommerce platform that provides SaaS services to retailers, including online store creation, search engine optimization, hosting, marketing and security for small and medium-sized businesses. In today's episode, Piotr speaks to Nate Stewart, Head of Strategy at BigCommerce. Some of the topics they discuss include the advantages o…

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51. beCommerce with Oliver Thylmann, co-founder and CCO of Giant Swarm 38:19

3y ago38:19

38:19

Giant Swarm provides an API Driven Open Source Platform that enables businesses to easily provision and scale Kubernetes clusters together with a wide set of managed services. Some of its customers include leading organizations from Fortune 500 to technology-first companies. Today, Markus Lorenz speaks to Oliver Thylmann, the co-founder and CCO of …

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50. Catch the Tornado with Dominik Angerer, CEO & Founder at Storyblok 47:39

3y ago47:39

47:39

Hi! Welcome to the 50th episode of the Catch the Tornado Podcast! On behalf of our whole team, thank you to all of the guests who have given us their time and shared what was often a lifetime's worth of knowledge. And to our listeners- thank you for sticking with us! This week Piotr speaks to Dominik Angerer, CEO & Founder at Storyblok- one of the …

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49. Catch the Tornado with François Lanthier Nadeau, CEO at Snipcart 37:00

3+ y ago37:00

37:00

This Catch the Tornado episode features François Lanthier Nadeau, CEO at Snipcart. Snipcart is a developer oriented solution for building shopping carts for online stores and enabling eCommerce for small to medium brands. François' journey from a regular Growth Marketer at a startup to the CEO of a successful company is one that sounds almost unrea…

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48. Catch the Tornado with Gordon Lucas, Head of Digital Engineering at Costa Coffee 31:56

3+ y ago31:56

31:56

2020 was not an easy year for any business, but the Hospitality Industry was definitely amongst those suffering the biggest setback. Costa Coffee, a British coffeehouse chain giant was also still recovering from the Brexit when the pandemic hit, yet that did not prevent the company from implementing a very successful mobile app program and eventual…

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47. Balance IT with Dirk Van Nievelt co-CEO of Sustainable Marketplace, Denda 49:27

3+ y ago49:27

49:27

In this episode, Agata talks to Dirk Van Nievelt about his journey to becoming the co-founder of Denda, a South American marketplace that offers only sustainable, eco-friendly products and services that aim to generate well-being in people in multiple categories ranging from healthy foods to energy efficiency. Dirk talks about his childhood dreams …

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46. beCommerce with Benoit Jacquemont, the co-founder and CTO of Akeneo 35:10

3+ y ago35:10

35:10

Before co-founding Akeneo, Benoit Jacquemont was CTO of Systems Integration company Smile and worked there for over 10 years. During this conversation, Benoit uncovers the story of how Akeneo was born as a solution he and his colleagues designed while still working at Smile, and dealing with clients from all sorts of industries. After some time it …

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45. Challenge Accepted. with John Surdakowski, founder at Avex, Shogun Investor 30:19

3+ y ago30:19

30:19

Today, in the Challenge Accepted. episode of our podcast, we have John Surdakowski, founder at Avex, Shogun Investor. John has seen has over 20 years of experience in building the web, from Web 1.0 and Flash animation to the explosion of mobile and e-commerce. In 2015 John started growing his freelance business into a boutique digital agency, with …

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44. Pioneers. with Michael Lukaszczyk, CEO and Co-Founder at GraphCMS 36:31

3+ y ago36:31

36:31

In today's Pioneers. episode of our podcast, Piotr speaks to Michael Lukaszczyk, CEO and Co-Founder at GraphCMS, one of the first GraphQL based Content Management Systems on the market. Michael talks about the journey of building a successful company from a very small startup in the B2B business. He shares his perspective on the most important aspe…

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43. Balance IT. with Angela Ortiz, Social Impact & Sustainability Entrepreneur 42:04

3+ y ago42:04

42:04

In this week's Balance IT. episode, Agata speaks to Angela Ortiz, Social Impact & Sustainability Entrepreneur. Angela is the author of "8 Principles That Will Make You An Effective Leader In Social Impact" and has over 9 years of experience in CSR. Her company, Stratechist Consulting, specializes in providing savvy solutions for companies & SMEs th…

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42. Pioneers. with Björn Raupach, the CTO & Founder of E2N 38:05

3+ y ago38:05

38:05

E2N is a software company founded in 2009 specializing in intelligent employee management and effective planning of personnel allocation that is known for its amazing UX. Its main premise is digitalization and food and hospitality is their main industry sector. Today, Markus Lorenz speaks to Björn Raupach, the CTO & Founder of E2N about his journey…

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41. Challenge Accepted. with Adam Maschek, CTO at Westwing Home & Living 50:37

3+ y ago50:37

50:37

In this week's Challenge Accepted. episode of our podcast, Piotr's guest is Adam Maschek the CTO of Westwing Home & Living. Westwing is an international eCommerce platform selling home appliances, furniture, decorations and much more. The platform could potentially face many tech challenges, as one of its most frequented API's processes up to 180,0…

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40. Challenge Accepted. with Mihaela Mazzenga, Chief Technology Officer at Sharper Image 30:42

3+ y ago30:42

30:42

Today's episode features Mihaela Mazzenga, Chief Technology Officer at Sharper Image, MACH alliance ambassador, a solutions architect, and a product strategist. Mihaela has recently led her team at Sharper Image through a full-blown migration from an enterprise monolith into a composable commerce setup. In today's episode, Mihaela and Piotr discuss…

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39. Challenge Accepted. with Vahid Gharavi, Director of Engineering at METRO.digital 37:08

3+ y ago37:08

37:08

METRO revolutionized an entire industry when it was founded: the arrival of the cash & carry concept enabled customers to find everything they needed under one roof. Today METRO offers not only the goods but the complete 360° wholesale experience. In this week's Challenge Accepted episode, Piotr speaks to Vahid Gharavi - Director Of Engineering at …

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38. Pioneers. with Matthias Patzak, Principal Advisor at Amazon Web Services 26:56

3+ y ago26:56

26:56

Matthias Patzak is the Principal Advisor at Amazon Web Services. He is an expert on lean-agile operational models at scale and has led many successful cloud transformations that resulted in shorter delivery times and increased business value for the businesses involved. In today's episode of the CTO-CTO Podcast Markus Lorenz speaks to Matthias abou…

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37. Balance IT. on #RacetoZero and CO2 offsetting with Yook's co-founder, Antoine Verger 39:56

3+ y ago39:56

39:56

In this week's Balance IT series episode, Agata and Antoine talk about building a green tech startup in the midst of the pandemic, and how looking for a more meaningful and fulfilling professional career can start with helping online shoppers calculate and offset their carbon footprint. while they're finalizing their purchase. April 2020 was when V…

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36. Challenge Accepted. with Thomas Payet, co-founder & COO at MeiliSearch 39:44

3+ y ago39:44

39:44

ElasticSearch is the default search engine for anyone who wants to build a search box. Lucene is the algorithm behind ElasticSearch, and other popular search engines but, although this technology is great, it's been around for many years. MeiliSearch, an Open Source solution co-founded by Thomas Payet, is challenging the market monopoly in terms of…

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35. Pioneers. with Brian Flynn, Serial Entrepreneur and Investor at FounderPartners 48:57

3+ y ago48:57

48:57

In today's episode, Piotr speaks to Brian Flynn, Serial Entrepreneur and Investor at FounderPartners, who has over 20 years of experience in business and startups and over 10 in investments. Piotr and Brian have a unique conversation about building companies, all stages of funding, the difference between unicorns and mustangs, and why letting go of…

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34. Pioneers. with Nishant Patel, Founder & CTO at Contentstack 41:14

3+ y ago41:14

41:14

In today's episode of the Pioneers series, our guest is Nishant Patel, the Founder & CTO at Contentstack™ – a leading CMS and Content Experience Platform (CXP). Nishant is a technology visionary with an extensive track record of spotting and setting industry trends and creating software products that power digital transformation and further the ris…

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33. Pioneers. with Art Boyd, Senior VP, Growth Partnerships at Mirakl 48:47

3+ y ago48:47

48:47

In this episode of the Pioneers. series, our guest is Art Boyd, Senior VP at Mirakl. Although Art Boyd had a successful career in finance at Citibank, he decided to move on to a more risky environment of enterprise software development and spent many years working for ATG, Oracle and Magento. Art discusses with Piotr the importance of building your…

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32. Pioneers. with Finbarr Taylor CEO at Shogun 23:52

3+ y ago23:52

23:52

In this episode of the Pioneers. series, our guest is Finbarr Taylor CEO at Shogun. Finbarr started his career as a software engineer who studied Computer Science in Scotland. As a software engineer, he worked for Groupon, Pebble Tech and Y Combinator. His experience in various Silicon Valley companies gave him the skills and network needed to star…

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31. Balance IT. on plastic footprint compensation with circulate.global CEO Christian Rühlmann 42:11

3+ y ago42:11

42:11

In this episode of our podcast Agata's guest is Christian Rühlmann, CEO of circulate.global. This is an environmental service platform that offers plastic neutrality to both individuals and brands. What gave Christian the wake-up call that led him to become the CEO of an environmental startup? What really happens to the plastic that we conscientiou…

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30. Challenge Accepted. with Stephan Schulze, CTO at Project A and Markus Lorenz (our new co-Host) 48:50

3+ y ago48:50

48:50

Welcome to the 30th episode of the CTO-CTO podcast. Firstly, we have another Challenge Accepted. by Stephan Schulze, the CTO at Project A who is an expert in helping companies develop faster and better than their competition. He is a CTO who is not only interested in tech but also in the wider ecosystem around tech (such as Product, Business Intell…

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29. Pioneers. with Filip Felician Dames, Entrepreneur and Investor at Cherry Ventures 53:29

3+ y ago53:29

53:29

Tech Crunch's recent news of Polish-American start-up Saleor raising 2.5 million USD in seed funding went viral a few days ago. In this week's Pioneers. episode, Piotr speaks to Filip Felician Dames, Entrepreneur and Investor at Cherry Ventures, the VC that made this and many other impressive investments happen since it was founded in 2013. Piotr a…

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28. Challenge Accepted. with Kapies Vallipuram, Director of Software Development at ALDO Group 34:47

3+ y ago34:47

34:47

In today's episode, Piotr speaks to Kapies Vallipuram, Director of Software Development at ALDO Group. ALDO is a Canadian retailer that owns and operates a worldwide chain of shoe and accessories stores. Kapies was in charge of the ALDO Crew Loyalty, ALDO's global loyalty platform that integrates the offline and online customer's experience. Piotr …

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27. Balance IT. Empowering Women in Tech with Natalie Pilling and Aleksandra Bis (Dare IT) 1:04:39

3+ y ago1:04:39

1:04:39

Celebrating International Women's Day, this week in the Balance IT. series of our podcast, our guests are Natalie Pilling and Aleksandra Bis, the two founders of Dare IT, a mentorship program that is meant to help women start working in the IT industry and accelerate the growth of their careers. The technology sector is still struggling with gender…

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26. Pioneers. with Fabian Wesner, founder of ROQ, ex-CTO of Spryker 1:01:26

3+ y ago1:01:26

1:01:26

In this episode of the Pioneers. series of our podcast, our guest is Fabian Wesner, founder of ROQ, ex-CTO of Spryker. Fabian started his career as a freelance developer, who then became a part of the team building Zalando Lounge who quickly became the CTO of Rocket Internet. His vast experience in multiple companies led him to recently create his …

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25. Challenge Accepted. with Harini Janakiraman, Head of Technology & Associate Partner at Antler 30:23

3+ y ago30:23

30:23

In this episode of the Challenge Accepted. series, Piotr speaks to Harini Janakiraman, Head of Technology & Associate Partner at Antler. Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that builds and invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow. Harini tells us about her experience at Antler and their data-driven decision process f…

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24. Balance IT. with Victoria Schmierer on Pre-owned fashion at Zalando 37:45

3+ y ago37:45

37:45

We are very excited to bring you Balance IT., where Agata will be talking to various guests about specific Sustainable business practices. Instead of just sitting around complaining about our own negligence, the deteriorating condition of our environment, and mindless consumerism, we want to shine a light on those who are actually making change hap…

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23. Pioneers. with Pierre Burgy, co-founder & CEO of Strapi 39:05

4y ago39:05

39:05

In today's episode, Piotr speaks to Pierre Burgy, the co-founder, and CEO of Strapi. Strapi is a leading open-source CMS, which proudly boasts a community of over 30,000 members on GitHub. Piotr finds out from Pierre about the open-source business models he has considered, and which ones he's actually adopted as well as how the team managed to buil…

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22. Pioneers. with Filippo Conforti, CEO at Commerce Layer 47:45

4y ago47:45

47:45

Commerce Layer is a headless commerce platform and Order Management System that lets you add global shopping capabilities to any website, mobile app, chatbot, or IoT device. Today's conversation is with Filippo Conforti, the CEO of Commerce Layer. Piotr and Filippo talk about Filippo's experiences as a Ruby on Rails developer as well as implementin…

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21. Challenge Accepted with Mathias Rönnlund, Systems Architect at Mirka 56:16

4y ago56:16

56:16

Finland based Mirka is one of the biggest sand-paper and tool manufacturers in the world. Today's guest is Mathias Rönnlund, Systems Architect at the company. Piotr speaks to Mathias about the B2B project based on SAP Spartacus. The conversation then moves to IoT and Microsoft Azure and ways of leveraging the Cloud-Native approach without getting i…

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20. Pioneers. with Jan Hegewald, Director of Engineering at Zalando 52:33

4y ago52:33

52:33

Zalando has been setting industry standards since its early days in 2008. A huge part of the success of this retail phenomenon is its primary focus on software development. Zalando's recent migration towards microservices architecture is still a model-case for many engineering initiatives. This week Piotr speaks to Jan Hegewald, Zalando’s Director …

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19. Pioneers. with John Williams, CTO at Amplience 1:03:40

4y ago1:03:40

1:03:40

In Today’s episode, Piotr talks to John Wiliams, CTO at Amplience. This story starts with Amplience being a startup centered around building flash-based media software right before Steve Jobs announces the death of Flash and the reign of HTML 5. John talks about how the company took this seemingly devastating turn of events and made it their bigges…

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18. Pioneers. with Alexander (Sasha) Vidiborskiy, Principal at Atomico 1:09:40

4y ago1:09:40

1:09:40

In today's Pioneer's episode, our guest is Sasha Vidiborskiy, the Principal at Atomico VC (his biggest investments include Skype, Pipedrive ...). Sasha shares 10+ years of investing experience with us including the best and worst cases he's seen in his career. He discusses what is at the core of the Venture Capital business, explains his process fo…

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17. Challenge Accepted. with Christoph Gerber, CEO of Talon.One, founder of Lieferando 33:41

4y ago33:41

33:41

In today’s episode, Piotr speaks to Christoph about the challenges of building a successful enterprise-software startup. Christoph is the CEO of Talon.One, a platform that allows you to manage marketing campaigns as well as customer loyalty and rewards solutions all in one place on an enterprise scale. Christoph also founded one of the biggest Germ…

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16. Pioneers. with Tim Neutkens Next.js lead and co-author 1:10:26

4y ago1:10:26

1:10:26

Next.js has become a standard framework for React applications. Wondering how this happened? In today’s Pioneers episode, we speak to Tim Neutkens, the very young yet accomplished Next.js lead and co-author. Among some of the topics, Piotr and Tim discuss are how adopting this framework impacted the hosting platform adoption and vice versa, how the…

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15. Challenge Accepted. with Eli Finkelshteyn, founder and CEO at Constructor.i 38:02

4y ago38:02

38:02

Eli Finkelshteyn is the Founder and CEO at Constructor.io, an eCommerce search engine for improving conversion rates. Eli, a search engine expert is someone who started out his career with a rare mix of interest in both Linguistics and Computer Science. During this episode Piotr speaks to Eli about his passion for ancient languages, transparency wi…

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14. Challenge Accepted. with Gabriel Engel, founder and CEO of Rocket.Chat 54:46

4y ago54:46

54:46

Rocket.Chat is not an "Open Source Slack". It's much more than that. Today, we speak to Gabriel Engel, founder & CEO. With companies such as Audi, Deutsche Bahn, and the U.S. Department of Defense using this communication platform of the future, there’s no doubt the company's vision is strong! During this conversation, Gabriel shares his view on re…

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13. Pioneers. with Adam Sturrock co-founder of Moltin 50:30

4y ago50:30

50:30

In today's Pioneers. episode, our guest is Adam Sturrock, the co-founder of Moltin and MACH Alliance ambassador. Piotr and Adam discuss the beginnings of Moltin and what it was like to build a successful startup in Newcastle, England, back in 2013. Adam also talks about the struggles of moving to Silicon Valley, his first six-figure deals, empoweri…

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12. Pioneers. with Carsten Thoma, co-founder of Hybris (SAP CX) 41:03

4y ago41:03

41:03

Today, our guest is Carsten Thoma, investor, entrepreneur, co-founder of Hybris (SAP), an eCommerce platform that pioneered the market back when less than 2% of global transactions were executed online. Some of the topics Carsten talks about are solving complex issues on a low budget, the importance of proximity to the customer, and how genuine and…

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