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Every edition we have sent, 202 of them, going back to 2024.
2026
60 editions
Aug 25, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to grow fast without piling up org debt
Aug 18, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to know which prospects are worth a call
Aug 11, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to stand out when your CV looks like everyone else's
Aug 4, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to stay accountable for work you did not type
Jul 28, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to check if you had a productive week
Jul 21, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to hire when 242 people apply for every job
Jul 14, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to automate without creating faster chaos
Jul 7, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to get 3x the reach from content you already made
Jul 2, 2026 Episode Recap
We never raised a Dollar in 16 years
Jun 30, 2026 Tech Roundup
Why you don't have to move to SF
Jun 23, 2026 Tech Roundup
The most expensive lie in startups
Jun 16, 2026 Tech Roundup
Why you should not listen to the 996 founder routine
Jun 9, 2026 Tech Roundup
How great founders work themselves out of a job
Jun 4, 2026 Special
We rebuilt the whole company every six months
Jun 2, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to spot a top 5% early hire
May 28, 2026 Episode Recap
Stop selling the science. Investors fund a product mindset.
May 26, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to read your next term sheet
May 19, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to actually rank in AI search
May 12, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to deploy AI in our GTM motion
May 10, 2026 Special
Current jobs in the Greater Cologne Area
May 7, 2026 Episode Recap
The best European VC category is compliance software
May 5, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to manage your team more efficiently
Apr 30, 2026 Episode Recap
55 Employees, 3 Million Users, $0 Marketing Budget. Then a Miro Exit.
Apr 28, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to build a company with AI from the ground up
Apr 23, 2026 Episode Recap
$14bn profit, 150 employees: the business model nobody talks about
Apr 21, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to make sense of AI agents
Apr 16, 2026 Episode Recap
Germany's AI edge is hiding in plain sight
Apr 14, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to turn your codebase into your best support tool
Apr 9, 2026 Episode Recap
14 of 18 European IPOs went to NASDAQ. That tells you everything.
Apr 7, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to measure AI adoption in your company
Apr 2, 2026 Episode Recap
They are building the next Google
Mar 31, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to position your career for the AI era
Mar 26, 2026 Episode Recap
The CEO-CFO playbook for buying companies without destroying them
Mar 24, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to improve your email campaigns
Mar 19, 2026 Episode Recap
The decision female founders face that no one prepares them for | Julia Bösch, Outfittery
Mar 17, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to keep your friends when work gets crazy
Mar 12, 2026 Episode Recap
How Robotics Startups Actually Survive | #1 Robotics Influencer Lukas Ziegler
Mar 10, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to grow your LinkedIn audience
Mar 5, 2026 Episode Recap
The SaaS playbook is dead. What replaces it? Andreas Goeldi, b2venture
Mar 4, 2026 Special
European Startups at Y Combinator: What 5,690 Companies Reveal About Europe's Tech Ecosystem
Mar 3, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to become more productive
Feb 26, 2026 Episode Recap
Europe can build trillion-euro companies | Tom Wehmeier, Atomico
Feb 24, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to adopt AI in your company
Feb 19, 2026 Episode Recap
The hire most founders make too late
Feb 17, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to know if your new hire will work out
Feb 16, 2026 Special
The New Hire Reality Check: A Founder's 90-Day Evaluation Framework
Feb 12, 2026 Episode Recap
Why Hiring Fast Is the Most Expensive Mistake Founders Keep Making
Feb 10, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to avoid a burnout
Feb 9, 2026 Special
How to protect your mental health
Feb 5, 2026 Episode Recap
The Most Dangerous KPI in Startup Life | Adrian Locher
Feb 3, 2026 Special
Join us: We're looking for a working student or part-time team member
Feb 3, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to increase your productivity
Jan 29, 2026 Episode Recap
Europe Isn’t Losing the AI Race, It’s Avoiding the Hard Parts with Judith Dada, Visionaries Club
Jan 27, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to hire at the right moment
Jan 22, 2026 Episode Recap
Why execution is now the true differentiator with OpenAI's Laura Modiano
Jan 20, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to have a top performer mindset
Jan 15, 2026 Episode Recap
Why the Last Mile Breaks Most Robotics Startups with Roland Siegwart, Professor at ETH Zurich
Jan 13, 2026 Tech Roundup
The one thing your personal brand should not miss
Jan 8, 2026 Episode Recap
How founders build (or break) trust in high-stakes moments
Jan 6, 2026 Tech Roundup
How to drive leads from AI chatbots
2025
97 editions
Dec 30, 2025 Tech Roundup
The best of Follow the Gradient in 2025
Dec 25, 2025 Episode Recap
What we learned from interviewing 50+ guests
Dec 23, 2025 Tech Roundup
The one review you should never skip
Dec 18, 2025 Episode Recap
Why “Wait and See” Is a Losing Strategy for European Founders
Dec 16, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to ship features with quality and speed
Dec 11, 2025 Episode Recap
Why you don't need HR until 200 people
Dec 9, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to give great interviews
Dec 4, 2025 Episode Recap
Why Speed, Not Intelligence, Kills Scientist-Founders
Dec 2, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to get media coverage for your funding round
Dec 2, 2025 Special
Working Student(s): Growth & Content
Nov 27, 2025 Episode Recap
When High Performance Is Actually Avoidance
Nov 25, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to run your Q4 strategy review
Nov 20, 2025 Episode Recap
Not all angels have wings
Nov 18, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to get introductions to investors
Nov 13, 2025 Episode Recap
Europe Doesn’t Lack Talent, It Lacks Permission
Nov 11, 2025 Tech Roundup
Why your most valuable team members self-educate
Nov 6, 2025 Episode Recap
When research is too ambitious to stay in the lab
Nov 4, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to reach PMF faster
Oct 30, 2025 Episode Recap
Automating your Backoffice with AI
Oct 28, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to spot high agency people for your startup
Oct 23, 2025 Episode Recap
Bold Moves, Not Baby Steps
Oct 21, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to reduce your frustration working in sales
Oct 14, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to make your team your ambassadors
Oct 9, 2025 Episode Recap
Scaling through retention
Oct 7, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to upgrade your sales game
Oct 2, 2025 Episode Recap
Europe Doesn’t Lack Ambition, It Lacks Infrastructure
Sep 30, 2025 Tech Roundup
Which AI apps boost your daily work?
Sep 25, 2025 Episode Recap
From Ecosystems to Moonshots
Sep 23, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to hire for a role you don't understand
Sep 18, 2025 Episode Recap
Radical Responsibility in Leadership
Sep 16, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to run performance reviews
Sep 11, 2025 Episode Recap
The Finance Leader’s Playbook
Sep 9, 2025 Tech Roundup
The killer questions to use in interviews
Sep 4, 2025 Episode Recap
From Asparagus Fields to Silicon Valley
Sep 2, 2025 Tech Roundup
What your investor updates are missing
Aug 28, 2025 Episode Recap
People over pitch decks
Aug 26, 2025 Tech Roundup
The growth hack to leverage your CEO
Aug 21, 2025 Episode Recap
How to get into Y Combinator
Aug 19, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to get a journalist to place your story
Aug 18, 2025 Special
Q3 Events
Aug 12, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to take control of your day
Aug 5, 2025 Tech Roundup
The sales playbook you were missing
Jul 29, 2025 Tech Roundup
Why finding your co-founder is harder than dating
Jul 22, 2025 Tech Roundup
How do you drive up team performance?
Jul 17, 2025 Episode Recap
Most startups die by suicide, not murder
Jul 15, 2025 Tech Roundup
The listening tour you never did
Jul 10, 2025 Episode Recap
From science risk to market proof
Jul 8, 2025 Tech Roundup
We celebrate One Year of Follow the Gradient!
Jul 3, 2025 Episode Recap
Keeping your sanity with stoicism
Jul 1, 2025 Tech Roundup
Stop begging for case studies, make your customers brag for you
Jun 26, 2025 Episode Recap
From art school to $40M ARR – with no money, no network, and no plan B
Jun 24, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to do the right onboarding
Jun 17, 2025 Tech Roundup
The two questions that make or break your GTM strategy
Jun 12, 2025 Episode Recap
How AI is actually changing go-to-market (and what most teams are still getting wrong)
Jun 10, 2025 Tech Roundup
What’s the hype around 996?
Jun 5, 2025 Episode Recap
How startups really get OKRs wrong (and what to do instead)
Jun 3, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to hire for excellence
May 29, 2025 Episode Recap
Designing for tomorrow, hiring today
May 27, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to leverage your sales champions
May 22, 2025 Episode Recap
What keeps you up at night? We’re bringing it to Season 3.
May 20, 2025 Tech Roundup
How five questions lead to your ICP
May 13, 2025 Tech Roundup
This sh*tshow deck gets you A-players only
May 6, 2025 Tech Roundup
The board deck template you've been missing
May 1, 2025 Episode Recap
The other side of startup life
Apr 29, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to generate traffic in the chatbot age
Apr 24, 2025 Episode Recap
Go big or go home: Lessons from SumUp’s Early Days
Apr 22, 2025 Tech Roundup
Do meeting recordings affect your team?
Apr 17, 2025 Episode Recap
The bold move that saved his company
Apr 15, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to engage with your Board
Apr 10, 2025 Episode Recap
Robots, grit and one really dark night in 2012
Apr 8, 2025 Tech Roundup
The WTF list you never made
Apr 3, 2025 Episode Recap
Machines and materials: scaling a hardware business
Apr 1, 2025 Tech Roundup
Why focus is the key to success
Mar 27, 2025 Episode Recap
The ultimate growth unlocks
Mar 25, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to nail Enterprise Sales
Mar 20, 2025 Episode Recap
From Zero to 100k users in 8 months
Mar 18, 2025 Tech Roundup
The successful way to land a (startup) job
Mar 13, 2025 Episode Recap
How to create a successful startup board
Mar 11, 2025 Tech Roundup
The skip-level questions you never asked
Mar 6, 2025 Episode Recap
Building trust and making tough decisions
Mar 4, 2025 Tech Roundup
The end of software engineering?
Feb 27, 2025 Episode Recap
Leadership and culture when scaling engineering teams
Feb 25, 2025 Tech Roundup
How to avoid building stuff nobody wants
Feb 20, 2025 Episode Recap
VC vs. bootstrapping
Feb 18, 2025 Tech Roundup
Struggling to hire? Your VC could be the problem. Or the solution.
Feb 13, 2025 Episode Recap
The startup grind that almost broke this founder
Feb 11, 2025 Tech Roundup
The smart vs. the hard workers
Feb 6, 2025 Episode Recap
What no one tells you when you exit
Feb 4, 2025 Tech Roundup
Pursue your dream, yet make money
Jan 30, 2025 Episode Recap
The power of being underestimated
Jan 28, 2025 Tech Roundup
Love letters that transform your team dynamics
Jan 23, 2025 Episode Recap
Navigating uncertainty: Lessons from a solo founder
Jan 21, 2025 Tech Roundup
Should you get nervous about competition?
Jan 16, 2025 Episode Recap
From profit to scale: Growing a payments business
Jan 14, 2025 Tech Roundup
The largest Series A in Europe ever
Jan 9, 2025 Episode Recap
Stop dreaming, start doing: Bootstrapping a fashion brand
Jan 7, 2025 Tech Roundup
Is your pitch deck ready for the AI era?
2024
45 editions
Dec 31, 2024 Tech Roundup
The Year in Review
Dec 24, 2024 Tech Roundup
Love the problem, not the solution
Dec 17, 2024 Tech Roundup
Are you running on “dirty energy”?
Dec 12, 2024 Episode Recap
End of year episode: Thank you for an amazing Season One
Dec 10, 2024 Tech Roundup
Why crowded markets can be good
Dec 5, 2024 Episode Recap
How to hire the best-in-class
Dec 3, 2024 Tech Roundup
When will Europe have a Trillion Dollar company?
Nov 28, 2024 Episode Recap
Why your startup needs a patent strategy
Nov 26, 2024 Tech Roundup
What comes after ARR?
Nov 21, 2024 Episode Recap
Startup Rebranding 101: When, Why, and How to Get It Right
Nov 19, 2024 Tech Roundup
Is FOMO the best way to convince a VC?
Nov 14, 2024 Episode Recap
How do you find PMF?
Nov 12, 2024 Tech Roundup
Why prospects aren't buying - even when they need it
Nov 7, 2024 Episode Recap
Is venture capital right for your startup?
Nov 5, 2024 Tech Roundup
Europe's unfair advantages
Oct 31, 2024 Episode Recap
Crisis Comms & Storytelling Essentials Every Startup Needs
Oct 29, 2024 Tech Roundup
How to rock your GTM strategy
Oct 24, 2024 Episode Recap
Scaling without losing your startup's soul
Oct 22, 2024 Tech Roundup
Does your team have the right size?
Oct 17, 2024 Episode Recap
Startup Legal Essentials: Protecting your company's future
Oct 15, 2024 Tech Roundup
The smart way to pick your next startup job
Oct 10, 2024 Episode Recap
Why most startup leaders fail—and how you can succeed
Oct 8, 2024 Tech Roundup
‘I don’t have time’ is a myth - here’s why
Oct 3, 2024 Episode Recap
Francine Gervazio on how to prepare your startup for an exit
Oct 1, 2024 Tech Roundup
Key advice for a financing round
Sep 26, 2024 Episode Recap
Our first podcast episode is out!
Sep 24, 2024 Tech Roundup
Do you need to work long hours to be successful?
Sep 17, 2024 Tech Roundup
Where to find your new startup idea
Sep 10, 2024 Tech Roundup
Will fundraising improve?
Sep 3, 2024 Tech Roundup
Key metrics investors look for
Aug 27, 2024 Tech Roundup
How do you define success?
Aug 20, 2024 Tech Roundup
The dark side of tech tools
Aug 13, 2024 Tech Roundup
Google Search deemed a monopoly
Aug 6, 2024 Tech Roundup
Fundraising: Is it a man’s world?
Jul 30, 2024 Tech Roundup
The five factors of longevity for founders
Jul 23, 2024 Tech Roundup
How to cold-email a VC
Jul 16, 2024 Tech Roundup
"People do not take enough risk"
Jul 9, 2024 Tech Roundup
Profitability is still the cool kid
Jul 2, 2024 Tech Roundup
Your best friend is now an AI bot
Jun 25, 2024 Tech Roundup
Will superintelligence be safe?
Jun 18, 2024 Tech Roundup
Meta to use your social posts to train AI
Jun 11, 2024 Tech Roundup
Will Switzerland become the leading DeepTech nation?
Jun 4, 2024 Tech Roundup
Google got leaked and wants you to eat stones
May 28, 2024 Tech Roundup
Cringe or the best b2b marketing ever?
May 21, 2024 Tech Roundup
Scarlet Johansson hits out at OpenAI
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