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Thursday Podcast

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

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

Thursday Podcast

The hire most founders make too late

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

Thursday Podcast

Why Hiring Fast Is the Most Expensive Mistake Founders Keep Making

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

Thursday Podcast

The Most Dangerous KPI in Startup Life | Adrian Locher

Feb 5, 2026

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7 min read

The Most Dangerous KPI in Startup Life | Adrian Locher

🎙️ Serial founder Adrian Locher on the moment grind turns into collapse

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

Europe Isn’t Losing the AI Race, It’s Avoiding the Hard Parts with Judith Dada, Visionaries Club

Jan 29, 2026

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6 min read

Europe Isn’t Losing the AI Race, It’s Avoiding the Hard Parts with Judith Dada, Visionaries Club

🎙️ Judith Dada of Visionaries Club on why giving up on models and infrastructure is a strategic mistake

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

Why execution is now the true differentiator with OpenAI's Laura Modiano

Jan 22, 2026

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5 min read

Why execution is now the true differentiator with OpenAI's Laura Modiano

🎙️ OpenAI’s Laura Modiano on why three-week cycles quietly died for serious founders

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

Why the Last Mile Breaks Most Robotics Startups with Roland Siegwart, Professor at ETH Zurich

Jan 15, 2026

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6 min read

Why the Last Mile Breaks Most Robotics Startups with Roland Siegwart, Professor at ETH Zurich

🎙️ ETH robotics pioneer Roland Siegwart on getting from research to revenue

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1

Thursday Podcast

How founders build (or break) trust in high-stakes moments

Jan 8, 2026

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7 min read

How founders build (or break) trust in high-stakes moments

🎙️ HV Capital's Lina Chong on the role of emotional honesty, hard decisions, and self-awareness in startup leadership.

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1

Thursday Podcast

What we learned from interviewing 50+ guests

Dec 25, 2025

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4 min read

What we learned from interviewing 50+ guests

🎙️ Our year end episode 2025

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1

Thursday Podcast

Why “Wait and See” Is a Losing Strategy for European Founders

Dec 18, 2025

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8 min read

Why “Wait and See” Is a Losing Strategy for European Founders

🎙️ Zattoo's Founder Bea Knecht on what Europe gets wrong about startups

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1

Thursday Podcast

Why you don't need HR until 200 people

Dec 11, 2025

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7 min read

Why you don't need HR until 200 people

🎙️ Olivier Gaudin on building a $4bn powerhouse through structured chaos

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

Why Speed, Not Intelligence, Kills Scientist-Founders

Dec 4, 2025

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6 min read

Why Speed, Not Intelligence, Kills Scientist-Founders

🎙️ Proton founder Andy Yen on urgency as a survival skill, not a personality trait.

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

When High Performance Is Actually Avoidance

Nov 27, 2025

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9 min read

When High Performance Is Actually Avoidance

🎙️ VARA founder Jonas Muff on collapse, identity, and rebuilding ambition without fear.

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

Not all angels have wings

Nov 20, 2025

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7 min read

Not all angels have wings

🎙️ Thomas Dübendorfer on how to spot the right angel investors

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

Europe Doesn’t Lack Talent, It Lacks Permission

Nov 13, 2025

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7 min read

Europe Doesn’t Lack Talent, It Lacks Permission

🎙️ Project Europe’s Kitty Mayo on culture, parents, and audacity as a competitive advantage.

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

When research is too ambitious to stay in the lab

Nov 6, 2025

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7 min read

When research is too ambitious to stay in the lab

🎙️ Elvis Nava on building a robotics company

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1

Thursday Podcast

Automating your Backoffice with AI

Oct 30, 2025

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6 min read

Automating your Backoffice with AI

🎙️ Fabienne Doerig on using Finance and Operations to drive growth in scale-ups

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

Bold Moves, Not Baby Steps

Oct 23, 2025

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7 min read

Bold Moves, Not Baby Steps

🎙️Neko Health's Noa Perry-Reifer on how to evolve fast without breaking your team or your culture

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1

Thursday Podcast

Scaling through retention

Oct 9, 2025

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4 min read

Scaling through retention

🎙️ Christian Woese on how to build a customer success function that drives real growth, not just support

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1

Thursday Podcast

Europe Doesn’t Lack Ambition, It Lacks Infrastructure

Oct 2, 2025

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6 min read

Europe Doesn’t Lack Ambition, It Lacks Infrastructure

🎙️ Andreas Klinger on why fragmented systems cap outcomes, not founder mindset.

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1

Thursday Podcast

From Ecosystems to Moonshots

Sep 25, 2025

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6 min read

From Ecosystems to Moonshots

🎙️ Nicole Büttner on building the connective tissue Europe’s startups need

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1

Thursday Podcast

Radical Responsibility in Leadership

Sep 18, 2025

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9 min read

Radical Responsibility in Leadership

🎙️ Jake Bornstein on building clarity in founder leadership

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

The Finance Leader’s Playbook

Sep 11, 2025

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8 min read

The Finance Leader’s Playbook

🎙️ Simone Rüschenberg on how to build and scale a Finance function

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1

Thursday Podcast

From Asparagus Fields to Silicon Valley

Sep 4, 2025

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7 min read

From Asparagus Fields to Silicon Valley

🎙️ Victoria Ransom on how to turn grit and resourcefulness into a startup superpower

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1

Thursday Podcast

People over pitch decks

Aug 28, 2025

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5 min read

People over pitch decks

🎙️ Founderful's Antonia Albert on how to get early stage VC funding

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
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