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Oliver Buchannon
Christian Woese
How to build a company with AI from the ground up

Tuesday Newsletter

Apr 28, 2026

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4 min read

How to build a company with AI from the ground up

Plus: What is forward deployed GTM?

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
$14bn profit, 150 employees: the business model nobody talks about

Thursday Podcast

Apr 23, 2026

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2 min read

$14bn profit, 150 employees: the business model nobody talks about

🎙️ Pascal Hügli on what stablecoins reveal about crypto's real value

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to make sense of AI agents

Tuesday Newsletter

Apr 21, 2026

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4 min read

How to make sense of AI agents

Plus: Why EU startups don't need more capital

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
Germany's AI edge is hiding in plain sight

Thursday Podcast

Apr 16, 2026

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8 min read

Germany's AI edge is hiding in plain sight

🎙️ Gülsah Wilke, DN Capital, on why vertical AI will be Europe's real moat

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to turn your codebase into your best support tool

Tuesday Newsletter

Apr 14, 2026

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10 min read

How to turn your codebase into your best support tool

Plus: Is becoming a people manager a bad career move?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
14 of 18 European IPOs went to NASDAQ. That tells you everything.

Thursday Podcast

Apr 9, 2026

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14 min read

14 of 18 European IPOs went to NASDAQ. That tells you everything.

🎙️ Nicolas Autret on the capital physics of building hardware in Europe

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to measure AI adoption in your company

Tuesday Newsletter

Apr 7, 2026

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9 min read

How to measure AI adoption in your company

Plus: The principles to build successful ventures

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
They are building the next Google

Thursday Podcast

Apr 2, 2026

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4 min read

They are building the next Google

🎙️ A 12-year Google veteran on why he bet his career on a 70-person competitor

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to position your career for the AI era

Tuesday Newsletter

Mar 31, 2026

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10 min read

How to position your career for the AI era

Plus: How long it takes to Series B

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
The CEO-CFO playbook for buying companies without destroying them

Thursday Podcast

Mar 26, 2026

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4 min read

The CEO-CFO playbook for buying companies without destroying them

🎙️ Francine Gervazio and Wouter Hendriks on scaling to 100M ARR

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to improve your email campaigns

Tuesday Newsletter

Mar 24, 2026

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10 min read

How to improve your email campaigns

Plus: What 81k people think about AI

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
The decision female founders face that no one prepares them for | Julia Bösch, Outfittery

Thursday Podcast

Mar 19, 2026

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6 min read

The decision female founders face that no one prepares them for | Julia Bösch, Outfittery

🎙️ Julia Bösch on egg freezing, Outfittery, and choosing both

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to keep your friends when work gets crazy

Tuesday Newsletter

Mar 17, 2026

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10 min read

How to keep your friends when work gets crazy

Plus: The three things to increase your performance

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How Robotics Startups Actually Survive | #1 Robotics Influencer Lukas Ziegler

Thursday Podcast

Mar 12, 2026

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5 min read

How Robotics Startups Actually Survive | #1 Robotics Influencer Lukas Ziegler

🎙️ Robotics evangelist Lukas Ziegler on what kills hardware startups

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to grow your LinkedIn audience

Tuesday Newsletter

Mar 10, 2026

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13 min read

How to grow your LinkedIn audience

Plus: Are tech workers leaving the US?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
The SaaS playbook is dead. What replaces it? Andreas Goeldi, b2venture

Thursday Podcast

Mar 5, 2026

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8 min read

The SaaS playbook is dead. What replaces it? Andreas Goeldi, b2venture

🎙️ Andreas Goeldi on the worst ideas in AI right now

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
European Startups at Y Combinator: What 5,690 Companies Reveal About Europe's Tech Ecosystem

Intelligence

Mar 4, 2026

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13 min read

European Startups at Y Combinator: What 5,690 Companies Reveal About Europe's Tech Ecosystem

We analyzed every Y Combinator company ever funded to understand where European tech stands. And where it's heading.

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to become more productive

Tuesday Newsletter

Mar 3, 2026

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11 min read

How to become more productive

Plus: The most underappreciated founder quality

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
Europe can build trillion-euro companies | Tom Wehmeier, Atomico

Thursday Podcast

Feb 26, 2026

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7 min read

Europe can build trillion-euro companies | Tom Wehmeier, Atomico

🎙️ Atomico's Tom Wehmeier on what 11 years of data actually reveal

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to adopt AI in your company

Tuesday Newsletter

Feb 24, 2026

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10 min read

How to adopt AI in your company

Plus: What is the 20x startup?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
The hire most founders make too late

Thursday Podcast

Feb 19, 2026

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7 min read

The hire most founders make too late

🎙️ Kate Connolly on the order of scaling yourself

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to know if your new hire will work out

Tuesday Newsletter

Feb 17, 2026

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11 min read

How to know if your new hire will work out

Plus: The paychecks of European founders

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
The New Hire Reality Check: A Founder's 90-Day Evaluation Framework

Resource

Feb 16, 2026

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13 min read

The New Hire Reality Check: A Founder's 90-Day Evaluation Framework

A framework for founders and leaders who want to build teams that actually work

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
Why Hiring Fast Is the Most Expensive Mistake Founders Keep Making

Thursday Podcast

Feb 12, 2026

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6 min read

Why Hiring Fast Is the Most Expensive Mistake Founders Keep Making

🎙️ Dex CEO and ex-Atomico Talent Partner Paddy Lambros on why rushed hires compound dysfunction

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to avoid a burnout

Tuesday Newsletter

Feb 10, 2026

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10 min read

How to avoid a burnout

Plus: Is Europe losing the AI race?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
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