Podcast
Long-form conversations with people building interesting things. 32 episodes.
#32 - David Heinemeier Hansson - Denmark, Ruby on Rails, 37Signals, & LeMans
David is a great guy who has done amazing things in a variety of fields. Learn more here - https://dhh.dk/
#31 - Ijad Madisch - ResearchGate, future of science, and finding focus.
Ijad Madisch is the Co-founder and CEO of ReaearchGate, which is the largest global platform for researchers with over 25 million members worldwide. Learn more - https://www.researchgate.net/
#30 - Jason Fried - 37signals, underdogs, and building quality products.
Jason is the Co-founder and CEO of 37signals - they make well designed powerful products like HEY and Basecamp. Learn more - https://37signals.com/00/
#29 - Serge Belongie - AI, Computer Vision, and the Pioneer Centre
Serge Belongie is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen , founder of the Belongie Lab, and director of the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence . He also serves as a Board Member at the ELLIS Society. Previously, he was the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech , where he also served as Associate Dean. He has been a member of the Visiting Faculty program at Google. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computer vision and machine learning , specifically object recognition and image segmentation , with his scientific research in these areas cited over 50,000 times according to Google Scholar . Along with Jitendra Malik , Belongie proposed the concept of shape context , a widely used feature descriptor in object recognition . He has co-founded startups in the areas of computer vision and object recognition. Follow Serge - Mastodon | LinkedIn | Twitter
#28 - Stefania Olafsdottir - Startups, YC, Data & Data Culture
Stefania Olafsdottir is the Co-Founder and CEO of Avo. Their product helps PMs, devs and data scientists ship faster without compromising data quality.
#27 - Mik Thobo-Carlsen - Entrepreneurship, Support, G.O.T., Global Change + Mindpool
Mik Thobo-Carlsen is a serial entrepreneur and board-member. He is the co-founder & CEO of Mindpool, and the co-founder & board member at Tattoodo.
#26 - Ian Moore: Punk, Food, Tech and Community
Ian Moore is the Founder of DEMI
#25 - Jonas Gehl: Jazz, Coffee, Philosophy & Sustainability
Jonas is the co-founder of Prolog Coffee, one of the best coffee roasters and cafe's in the world.
#24 - Jesper Kjeldsen
Jesper Kjeldsen is an entrepreneur and politician based in Aarhus, Denmark. He is the co-founder and CEO at Postevand, a candidate for Aarhus City Council, and a Kaospilot.
#23 - Khalid Albaih
Khalid Albaih is a political cartoonist, civil rights activist, freelance journalist, and cultural producer.
#22 - Maykel Loomans
Maykel Loomans is the Principal Designer & Design Director at Brex. Previously, he led the digital product and design team at Glossier, worked on a myriad of efforts and product teams at Facebook, and was one of the first designers at Instagram.
#21 - Mark Durno
Mark Durno is the Managing Partner at Rockstart AgriFood. Rockstart AgriFood is an early stage venture fund & accelerator, investing in and supporting Agritech and Foodtech startups, empowering them to drive positive change in the food supply system.
#20 - Prateek Sadhu
Prateek is the Executive Chef & Co-Owner of restaurant Masque in Mumbai, India.
#19 - Andres Colmenares
Andres Colmenares is the co-director of I AM Internet. I AM Internet is a creative research lab helping citizens and organisations to anticipate, understand and address the socioecological challenges and opportunities emerging from the coevolution of digital technologies and internet cultures.
#18 - Jakob Kistorp
Jakob Kistorp is the Co-founder & CEO of Offset Motorcycles, a manufacturer of electric motorcycles for urban commuting and off road performance. Offset is creating an entirely new way of riding, owning, and modding a motorcycle.
#17 - Jeppe Christensen & Michael Andersen
Jeppe & Michael are the co-founders of Reform. Reform is a disruptive full service kitchen brand from Copenhagen, that creates masterfully designed kitchens, delivered to customers worldwide. They have collaborated with intentionally acclaimed architects and designers to build iconic kitchen designs from the ground up in Europe, that are crafted with the highest quality, sustainability, and classic design values in mind, while innovating across the entire value chain.
#16 - Milton Abel II
Milton Abel II is the Head Pastry Chef at the iconic Copenhagen restaurant Kong Hans Kalder. He has had an amazing career working at some of the worlds best restaurants like NOMA, The French Laundry, AMASS, and also had a career in working at some of the best Bakeries in Denmark like Hart Bageri, and Andersen & Millard. He is a trained actor, and has won the James Beard Award for a short documentary on his life called "That's My Jazz".
#15 - Renato Valdes Olmos
Renato is a designer, entrepreneur, and tech executive. He is currently the Head of Design at Grammarly. Prior to that, he has worked at Lyft, a16z, and Honor. He was the founder of Human, an award winning fitness tracking app that was acquired by Mapbox in 2016. Besides that, since 2015 he is the co-founder of Front & Center together with his partner Melanie.
#14 - Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius
Christer is the Principal of Kaospilot, which is a school of creative leadership and meaningful entrepreneurship based in Aarhus, Denmark.
#13 - Roxanne Varza
Roxanne is the Director at Station F, the world's biggest startup campus located in Paris, besides that she is a Sequoia Scout, and an angel investor.
#12 - Jack Coyne
Jack Coyne is a YouTuber, content creator, entrepreneur, world traveller, food lover and all around awesome human.
#11 - Vaughn Tan
Vaughn Tan is a London-based strategy consultant, author, and professor at University College London’s School of Management. He specializes in designing organizations that are resilient to and benefit from uncertainty and has spent over a decade working with the food and beverage industry. Vaughn is the recent author of The Uncertainty Mindset: Innovation Insights from the Frontiers of Food—a behind-the-scenes travelogue of some the best restaurants in the world that also explains how to build more innovative and adaptable businesses.
#10 - Daniel Giacopelli
Daniel Giacopelli is the Editorial Director at Courier Media.
#9 - Torsten Kolind
Torsten Kolind is a tech entrepreneur, investor and advisor. He is the Co-founder & CEO of YouNoodle, and the Lead Investor at LongPlay.
#8 - Kaja Kirstine
Kaja Kirstine is a PhD student at Aalto University researching impact investing. She has been part of the impact investing world in the Nordics for the last few years, is one of the founders of Nordic Impact Investing Network, and has a deep understanding of the subject.
#7 - Milan van den Bovenkamp
Milan is one of my good friends, and he is a life long entrepreneur/builder. His latest project is by far the most ambitious, and the most thoughtful company he has worked on.
#6 - Klaus Wittrup
Klaus and his team have created one of the best burger concepts in the world - Gasoline Grill. Besides that, he is a great guy and a friend - we talk about his lifelong love of cooking, and his unique journey to building one of the best burger restaurants in the world.
#5 - Bowline Special - Christian Nedergaard, Eric Guthey, Matt Orlando
Christian, Eric and Matt are, next to their day jobs, the founders of Bowline - an open source project to support the restaurant and hospitality industry.
#4 Nicolas Arroyo
Nicolas Arroyo is the Founding Partner and Director of Foresight at Bespoke.
#3 - Peter Pilegaard
Peter Pilegaard is an accomplished actor, journalist, author.
# 2 - Matt Orlando
Matt Orlando is the Chef/Owner of Amass Restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is consistently named one the best restaurants in the world, and one of the most sustainable.
#1 - Anne Sofie Allarp
Anne Sofie Allarp is a trained lawyer and journalist who writes for major Danish publications like Berlingske and Politikken. She also appears regularly on Danish TV and radio channels such as TV2News, DR2, and P1 among others.