Founder Radio

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Pit Janssen of MedApp has exited his prescription medicine adherence and delivery company to the biggest, stock exchange listed, EUR 2.0bn market cap online pharmacy company in Europe. MedApp launched as a medication adherence app, and rolled out an integrated pharmacy with a delivery function in 2020. They bootstrapped the company with a students loans and IT consultancy work until 2017, at which point angels came in. After raising money from Tablomonto Ventures, M3 Ventures and Health Innovations, they were acquired by Shop Apotheke Europe (ETR: RDC) in 2021.Listen to this episode for lots of insights onInnovation in the pharmacy businessHow oldschool pharma fought backHow to bootstrap your companyFinding hidden funding (!)The importance of a great co-founderWhat to look for in a co-founderHow to exit your business to a multinationalHow life changed for Pit and this team after the acquisitionPit’s background, drive and valuesParenting tactics for nurturing killer entrepreneursEnjoy listening!Press follow in your podcast app or on Youtube to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.Joel co-founded London-based Trubrics, which helps product teams track what’s happening inside LLM models. He and his co-founder founded the company when they saw companies investing heavily in LLM models but remaining in the dark on what is going on inside. They’ve just closed a pre-seed round, did their first hire and are about to launch their first version of the product to customers.Amongst many other things we talked about Trubric’s pre-seed roundLLMs and LLM applicationsHis evolution from engineer to sales to CEOWhen to seek advice and when to ignore itThe sales tactics Joel masteredJoels drive and valuesJoels first companies at age 13 (!)How Joel manages his confidenceEnjoy listening!Press follow in your podcast app to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.Meet one of Europe’s most driven impact entrepreneurs: Kees Aarts, founder of Protix. Protix is an insect protein company founded to radically reduce the environmental footprint of our food system and help stop the loss of biodiversity in our seas. Kees and his team started out 14 years ago, and today they are the world leader in insect ingredients, running the largest insect farm ever built. Their mission is to bring the food system back into balance with nature. There were many gems in this conversation, amongst many other things we discussed:Kees trigger to start ProtixKees first year as a founder Kees philosophy for success: Evolve every single dayKey moments of evolution in his personal and professional lifeKees analysis of why wealth can make a country less innovativeKees thoughts on the business climate in the NetherlandsKees thoughts on artificial intelligence and the future of our speciesEnjoy listening! Press follow in your podcast app to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.Kim Durand hails from Paris and moved to Mexico City to start Cheaf, which reduces food waste by offering high quality food that is close to the expiry date at steep discounts. Started less than 4 years ago, the company now employs 30 FTE. Kim was born and raised in France and has worked at incubator Nova Founders Capital and Uber, before starting Cheaf. Amongst many other things, we discussed Kim's business journey spanning from France to Malaysia to the Netherlands to MexicoKim's development from numbers guy to becoming founder and CEO of CheafThe reality versus the perception of starting a companyKim's routines to stay fit and deal with stressKim's plans for the futureEnjoy listening!Press follow in your podcast app to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.Sophia Hummelman Co-Founded ReCarbn, which is working on reversing climate change, by direct air capture of CO2.   Sophia was born and raised in the Netherlands and has working in finance at JPMorgan and iFund, in London, Paris and Amsterdam, before starting ReCarbn. Amongst many other things, we discussed How direct air capture of CO2 worksWhat you do with the CO2Recent developments at ReCarbnReCarbns businessmodel Sophia’s own journey, all the way from her upbringing to her role at ReCarbnEnjoy listening!Press follow in your podcast app to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.Listen to our talk with Harpreet Singh! Harpreet Co-Founded Peckish, and is building a new backend operating system for restaurants to drastically reduce food waste and increase profitability for restaurants. Harpreet was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and now works and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Before Peckish, he has founded The Turban Shop and worked at Uber as an operations manager. Amongst many other things, we spoke about Harpreets journey from Sydney to AmsterdamStress and how he deals with itSikhism and what it means for Harpreet in daily lifeThe importance of finding a great co-founderEnjoy listening!Press follow in your podcast app to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.Tune in to our latest conversation with Yorick Bruins! Yorick is Co-Founder and CEO of Wakuli, a Netherlands based Direct-to-Consumer subscription coffee brand, thats has also started opening coffee shops at a high pace.Wakuli is all about changing the system of coffee production and distribution, and by cutting out a lot of the middle men, succeeds in paying farmers ±5x times what they'd get from others. Their coffee tastes amazing, too.Yorick has founded Wakuli about 5 years ago, and has been working on higher quality food and a fairer system his entire career. In this episode, Yorick speaks about:Where his passion for food emergedThe challenges he's faced along the wayHow he learns from othersAdvice to those aspiring to start a business themselvesEnjoy listening!Press follow in your podcast app to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.Mikael Rautanen is Co-Founder and CEO of Inderes, a Finland based equity research and investor relations company. Inderes is changing the investing industry, from a focus on the 1%, to a world where every retail investor has full access to company information and insights. Mikael attributes a lot of Inderes success to the unique company culture.Mikael has been at the helm of Inderes for over 15 years, and tells us about The early days of InderesThe team's is organisation and cultureShifting from survival mode, to money making mode, to a focus on the longevity of the companyMikael's personal journey, learnings, challenges in business and in his personal live, and how he overcome thoseEnjoy listening!Press follow in your podcast app to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.Niko is the founder of Rite Studios, a boutique sports chain from Belgium. He's started his career at Unilever and has held Strategy and General Manager roles at Uber in India, the Middle East and Europe. In this episode, we discuss The founding of RiteThe development sports has gone through in the last 50 yearsThe challenges he sets himself, things he's struggled with, and the Marathon des Sables, a gruelling 250km ultrarun through the Sahara DesertEnjoy listening!Press follow in your podcast app to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.This episode we have Mark Hulshof of Triggre. Mark has been building Triggre, a nocode automation platform for SMEs, for over 10 years. He's now experiencing a strong acceleration in his business, and is getting ready for expansion. Mark is very open about his ambitions, struggles and learning experiences along the way. We touch on a wide range of topics, includingNocode for SMEsUse cases for Triggre Neuro-linguistic programmingHow leaders can embrace vulnerabilityHis drive, values and upbringingEnjoy listening!Press follow in your podcast app to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.

At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.This episode we talk to Jacqueline van den Ende of Carbon Equity. Jacqueline and her co-founders started Carbon Equity 3 years ago in order to combat climate change. Carbon Equity enables consumers to invest in innovative technology companies, leading to direct climate impact and attractive financial returns. The company has just announced its Series A, and saw its number of users and assets under management grow with 100% and 300% respectively since its previous capital raise.Amongst many other things, we discussClimate Change Moral LeadershipHow capital allocation decisions impact the way the world worksJacqueline's journey from private equity, to leading a scale up in the Philippines, to starting Carbon EquityEnjoy listening!Press follow in your podcast app to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically.