The Entrepreneur Insight
By Thomas Reck
Each week, Thomas Reck interviews one of the world's top entrepreneurs to better understand their story and how they got to where they are today.
The Entrepreneur InsightAug 13, 2020
#90 CEO of one of the biggest private jet companies
Bernhard Fragener is the Founder & CEO of GlobeAir, one of the biggest private jet companies in Europe.
#89 Building a cannabis company in Germany | Interview with Finn Hänsel from Sanity Group
Finn is the Founder & CEO of Sanity Groupm a startup that focuses on building Cannabis products for health- and lifestyle purposes. In this episode, we dive into Finn's story and why he thinks Cannabis will be one of the next big things in Germany once it's legalised.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insight.berlin
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#88 Felix Ohswald: How to build a billion dollar startup in your 20s
Felix is the Founder & CEO of GoStudent, a startup that's worth over 1,7 billion $ with over 1,000 employees. In this episode, we dive into Felix's story and how he was able to build one of the most successful ed-tech startups on this planet.
If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference reaching as many people as possible with this show.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insight.berlin
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#87 Daniel Dippold on investing, SIGMA Squared and universities
Daniel Dippold is an entrepreneur from Germany. He has founded multiple tech ventures and has been named a top talent under 25. With EWOR he has built a global platform making the process of founding and leading a venture easier and more accessible. In addition to that he also is a frequent advisor to governments and large corporations.
In our conversation we talked about him coming from a small village, breaking out of this comfort zone by travelling abroad after school and making his way afterwards with some important realizations in mind. We also touch base on the influence of pressure, why your ideas are more valuable nowadays than a degree of a university, and how Daniel manages to work on multiple companies by still staying focused.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insight.berlin
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#86 Think Orbital: Building housing infrastructure in space | Interview with Vojtech Holub and Sebastian Asprella
Vojtech Holub and Sebastian Asprella are the Co-founders and CO-CEOs of Think Orbital. The company aspires to provide scalable infrastructure to help people flying to low Earth orbit. Their mission is to develop the technologies for assembly of large pressure vessels in space and apply these technologies to build large and scalable space stations which are the key in starting the cislunar economy.
In our conversation we talk about their love for space and how they came together to start the company about six months ago fulfilling their life-long dreams. Their business model is based on three pillars: Being able to assemble in orbit, adaptation in different use cases and being cost effective for example compared to the ISS. Even if they are confident in reaching their goals eventually they are also aware of the risks and stress the importance of a good team and a long term plan which they also touch base on.
If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference reaching as many people as possible with this show.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#85 Shaping the future of space through people | Interview with Tom Kelly and Richard Joyce from EVONA
Tom Kelly and Richard Joyce are two of the four Co-Founders of EVONA. The company specializes in international space industry recruiting. This means to help space companies around the world to find talented team members and job-seekers to land the space industry jobs of their dreams.
In our conversation we talk about how they have built the company combining their private interest in space exploration and a business model and they give insights into their workflow. In addition to that they not only discuss the hurdles they needed to overcome and clarify some common misconceptions but they also speak about their business statistics including their GP.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#84 EV Investor, Ex-CEO of Audi India and Automobili Pininfarina | Interview with Michael Perschke
Michael Perschke is the Ex CEO of Audi India and the luxury supercar company Automobili Pininfarina. Currently he serves as a Board Member of multiple startups and as an Investor for EV car companies.
In our conversation we dive into his personal story and what made him even get into the automotive industry. We also touch base on his current activity as an investor.
If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference reaching as many people as possible with this show.
I also love reading the reviews.
Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#83 The father of modern branding | Interview with David Aaker
David Aaker is a recognized authority on branding. He has developed several recognizable concepts and has received numerous awards for his contributions to the science of marketing. He is a professor, serves as Vice Chairman at Prophet, a global growth consultancy and has written and published 18 books as well as hundreds of articles around this topic.
In our conversation we talk about why he is considered “The father of modern branding”, his work at Prophet, a company founded by a former student of David and his perception of branding formed over the last 40 years of his career. For him branding is not only a tactical thing but an asset for a long term strategy to achieve brand loyalty, communicate the brand vision and improve brand equity.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#82 Doug Winter on his way to building a billion dollar business | Interview with Doug Winter
Doug Winter is the Founder and CEO of Seismic, the industry-leading sales enablement and marketing orchestration solution currently doing $200M in revenue with about 1000 employees and offices all around the world.
In our conversation we talk about his story including the failure of the first start-up he was involved in and some other challenges he and his Co-Founders had to face after that. Moreover Doug speaks about the vision and development of Seismic as well as the importance of investors and a good and trusty team.
If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference reaching as many people as possible with this show.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#81 Founder, Investor and CEO of Adtelligence | Interview with Michael Altendorf
Michael Altendorf is the founder and CEO of Adtelligence and an angel investor in a lot of different start-ups. Adtelligence is a leading German software and technology company that uses its digital sales platform to enable customers to personalize their entire digital sales performance fully automatically with the help of Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and thus optimize it in a sustainable way to increase sales.
In our conversation we talk about his journey over the past 10 years, how he left SAP in the middle of a financial crisis to start his own business and eventually partner up with Facebook. Today they focus on personalizing websites based on previously acquired data with the overall goal to increase the conversion rate. Furthermore he explains his position at the World Economic Forum.
If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference reaching as many people as possible with this show.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#80 Board Member of the worlds first water bank, Investor | Interview with Sam Katiela
Sam Katiela is the CEO of Mamemo Consulting which is a future-focused group of companies that provide public and private sector clients with ideas, communication strategies, services and products. In addition to that he is the Managing & Creative Director from mamemo, an interactive media and marketing company delivering a full creative service.
In our conversation we talk about his story over the last 20 years starting in Dubai as a young and successful TV producer to now bringing events like the Formula 1 to the area. He tells us about his projects, events he was involved in and how his work was impacted by covid. Furthermore he mentions his future strategy including crypto currency and a waterbank.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#79 Investor, World Traveller and General Partner at Gaia Capital Partners | Interview with Robin Eric Haak
Robin Eric Haak is a multi-founder and investor in Germany and the US. He is the co-founder of Wo|men Inc., a global network that connects leaders, executives, professionals, entrepreneurial women across Europe and the Axel Springer Plug&Play Accelerator. He just joined Gaia Capital Partners as a Partner.
In our conversation we talk about his story including his childhood, the different companies he worked on and the world trip he was on for one and a half years. On this world trip he opened a coffee shop in Bhutan, slept in a tent of a local family in the Gobi Desert and experienced several other adventures.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#78 The future of digital business banking | Interview with Jessica Holzbach
Jessica Holzbach is a female entrepreneur from Berlin, Germany mentioned by Forbes 30 under 30 and Capital 40 under 40. She is the Co-Founder and CCO at Penta, a digital platform for business banking especially for start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises.
In our conversation we talk about her story, how they started Penta over 4 years ago and also about a start-up she founded before that which failed. Having the urge to do it better the second time she kept on going even after this failure and learned some important lessons for example in hiring.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#77 Former COO of Wolt and CGO at Uber | Interview with Patrick Studener
Patrick Studener is the former Head of Expansion of Uber working there early on in 2013 as one of the first 100 employees. From that he moved on to Wolt, a technology company focused on food delivery, as a COO and now he is the Vice President and Head of EMEA for Bird, an e-scooter start-up.
In our conversation we talk about his career, the process of launching Uber in different regions and the strategy behind Bird which for example includes producing everything that’s needed in-house. Another topic we touch base on are the challenges he currently has to deal with as well as him starting something on his own in the future.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#76 From $20M to $400M in revenue in less then 10 years | Interview with Tariq Chauhan
Tariq Chauhan is the Group CEO and Co-founder of EFS, a facility management company with now 400M $ in revenue and 18,000 employees. He is also ranked amongst the top 5 Indian CEOs by Forbes in 2019.
In our conversation we talk about his accomplishments like the outstanding employee satisfaction in his company, how to build trust and most importantly about his personal story, including many successes but also some setbacks. Regarding these setbacks he furthermore tells us how he has overcome them.
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#75 How it is to be one of Elon Musks best friends | Interview with Adeo Ressi
Adeo Ressi is CEO of the Founder Institute, a startup launch program that operates in over 200 cities worldwide. He is a recognized mentor for fast growing technology businesses. He has been a big figure in the Silicon Valley since creating TheFunded in 2007.
In our conversation we talk about his personal story, the motivation behind his company and how we need to change our focus from working on optimizations to solving problems that actually matter.
Website mentioned during the episode: https://fi.co/progress
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Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#74 Predicting what people buy through data analytics | Interview with Sebastian Johnston
Sebastian Johnston is the founder and CEO of VIVERE. VIVERE is a data-driven, environmentally friendly and customer-centric company building innovative and sustainable brands from the ground up.
In our conversation we talk about how VIVERE's business model works, how they compete against companies like Amazon and they have been able to start 70+ brands from the ground up in less then three years.
If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference reaching as many people as possible with this show.
I also love reading the reviews.
Thomas Reck is the Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
I’m looking forward to your feedback on the show!
#73 She raised $15M in funding and hit the 1st place in the App Store | Interview with Prerna Gupta
#72 Communities as a business model? | Interview with Beri Meric
My guest today is Beri Meric, CEO and Co-Founder of IVY which is providing mentorship workshops and exchanges with world-class leaders to unlock potential and ignite your mind.
In this episode Beri and I talk about the importance of communities and how he built a business based on this realization.
Furthermore, he recommends his favorite books that had an impact on his life and explains his weekly routine in detail.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
#71 How to invest right | Interview with Ed Sappin
My guest today is Ed Sappin. He is the founder and CEO of SGS (Sappin Global Strategies) which partners with the next generation of global innovators as well as that he is a partner at Nimali, a renewable energy investment group.
In general he invests in and builds innovative companies that focus on technology, energy and healthcare.
During this episode Ed and I are talking about him launching his businesses relatively late even though he comes from an entrepreneurial background and how he proceeds when he invests in a company.
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Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
#70 Why this entrepreneur invests in psychedelics and magic mushrooms | Interview with Christian Angermayer
My guest today is Christian Angermayer. He is the founder of Apeiron Investment Group, his family office and merchant banking business. Apeiron focuses on investments in biotech, fintech & crypto and deep tech companies.
With his biotech company ATAI Life Sciences, Christian has the ambitious goal to find cures for various mental health issues like depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD by bringing back so-called psychedelics like "magic mushrooms" and DMT into the legal realm as powerful medical treatment.
In this episode we touch base on Christian's current work with psychedelic's and how he started out when he was 19 years old.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/
Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main
About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting and an expert when it comes to CEO-Personal-Branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's, Startup Founders and Consulting Partners to attract more target clients, build an impactful personal brand with a strong why and become the #1 Thought Leader in their industry (like Elon, Donald and Bill).
#69 - From learning by doing to a $1 Billion company | Interview with Vitaly Sedler
My guest today is Vitaly Sedler, CEO and Co-Founder of Intellias a software engineering company which is one of the 15 biggest IT companies in Ukraine.
In this episode Vitaly and I are talking about his story and how he got interested in information technology in a country with a weak economy at that time.
After leading Intellias for over 18 years with a close to 100 % focus he faces constant changes in their industry to which the company had to adapt. Now they aim to achieve their goal of growing to a $1 Billion company.
Connect with Vitaly Sedler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitaly-sedler-0b507a2/
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#68 - Over $100 Million with a chauffeur service and 400 people worldwide | Interview with Dr. Jens Wohltorf
My guest today is Dr. Jens Wohltorf. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blacklane. The company provides a global chauffeur service in over 60 countries and 300 cities.
Before he started leading Blacklane he was working as a principal at BCG for 6 years.
In this episode Jens and I talk about the idea behind their business model and how they modernized the industry. Bringing supply and demands together they are constantly adding new services to make travelling stress-free and revolutionize this old industry.
Connect with Jens Wohltorf on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwohltorf/
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#67 The evolution of energy companies towards decarbonization | Interview with Andreas Schierenbeck
My guest today is Andreas Schierenbeck, CEO of Uniper which is the third largest listed utility company in Germany and one of Europe’s leading power-generation and energy trading companies.
During this episode Andreas and I talk about his story, working from home and especially about the development in the energy business.
Decarbonization is one of the huge challenges Uniper is facing right now particularly because it’s based on mostly non-renewable energy resources.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#66 How to change other peoples’ mindset | Interview with Tom Bilyeu
My guest today is Tom Bilyeu. He is the CO-Founder of Quest Nutrition, a start-up valued at over $1 billion and CEO at Impact Theory where he is hosting a world-class interview talk show.
In this episode Tom and I talk about how he got from wanting to be a filmmaker from early on to where he is today, owning a media production company.
Furthermore Tom explains how he influences people to change their mind about something with storytelling and his way of overcoming the depressive feeling of wishing to be smarter than you are.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#65 Why we should think and invest long-term | Interview with Esther Dyson
My guest today is Esther Dyson. She is an investor, journalist, author, business woman and philanthropist.
As a leading angel investor she focused on a variety of topics including health care and outer space.
In this episode Esther and I talk about her story and the educational impact mistakes had on her career.
In general she would like to see a shift from a selfish and egocentric society to a collaborative and long-term thinking society by investing in human structure.
https://twitter.com/edyson?lang=de
http://www.wellville.net
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#64 Tips to achieve your dreams by a 3x World Record Holder | Interview with Ash Dykes
My guest today is Ash Dykes, extreme athlete, speaker and author.
To receive his three world records he was trekking across Mongolia, Madagascar and he hiked along the entire length of Asia’s longest river.
In this episode Ash and I talk about his journey and dangerous adventures.
To always keep going on his expeditions persistence is a huge factor so he shares some techniques how he stays disciplined.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#63 Why you need to understand these 5 principles as an investor | Interview with Deborah Quazzo
My guest today is Deborah Quazzo, managing partner at GSV Ventures who currently serves on over ten boards.
She won multiple awards like the 2017 Visionary Award from the AAP.
During this episode Deborah and I talk about her principals - the five P’s and the importance of valuable digital education.
In her opinion we can’t continue to teach and learn in the way that we’ve done traditionally to solve issues in society.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#62 Raising $7 Million with 3D content! | Interview with Alban Denoyel
My guest today is Alban Denoyel who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sketchfab.
Sketchfab is the largest platform to publish and find 3D content online with which he raised $7 Million in the Series A.
During this episode Alban and I talk about how he got interested in 3D models and printing as well as the huge range of clients he reaches, including Yamaha, Dell and the British Museum.
Alban is confident that the need of 3D files will increase as the AR and VR will be more popular.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#61 The power of marketing and social media for companies and your personal brand | Interview with Shama Hyder
My guest today is Shama Hyder, CEO of Zen Media, a global marketing and digital PR company.
In addition to that she wrote many books about social media and marketing.
She has won many awards and was honored at both the White House and The United Nations as one of the top 100 young entrepreneurs in the country.
In this episode Shama and I are talking about her role in the firm and in engineering virality for other companies. Another big part of her business life is her personal brand which she mainly promotes on LinkedIn telling her story authentically and transparently.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#60 Jon Cook – CEO of one of the biggest marketing agencies in the world with over 7,000 employees worldwide.
My guest today is Jon Cook who is the CEO of VMLY&R.
The company has close to 7,000 employees and has principal offices around the world.
During this episode Jon and I are talking about how business, culture and work you put out have to be kept in balance and how personalization will blend entertaining and shopping in the future.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#59 John Eades – This is why a personal failure helped to build his career
My guest today is John Eades, CEO of LearnLoft, a leadership development company.
John is also the author of “Building the Best” and the host of the Follow My Lead Podcast.
After failing to lead his first company, he now helps other people in positions of leadership.
In this episode we talk about his career path and which kind of mentors you should have and how he finds them.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#58 David Cohen – Why failure is essential for an entrepreneur
My guest today is David Cohen, founder of multiple companies in the area of computer science.
His current business Techstars is mainly investing and providing mentorship for 2000 early stage tech companies that have created over $20B in market cap.
In this episode David and I talk about his best investments like Uber, Twilio and DigitalOcean and how he is driven by his vision of the future.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#57 Melikshah Ünver – From Management Consulting at BCG to the Founder of Taledo
My guest today is Melikshah Ünver who is the founder and CEO of Taledo, connecting talented digital professionals with market leading companies utilized to grow their teams efficiently.
Melikshah is well known in the Berlin start-up scene and comes originally from southern Germany where he studied business administration.
Back in the day he started with selling fountain pens on Ebay.
After helping other companies to grow, he wanted to found a company himself with a group of people including his two younger brothers.
During this episode we talk about his story and the difficulties he and his team are facing.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#56 Frida Polli – COVID-19 as a chance to grow a digital company?
My guest today is Frida Polli, neuroscientist and CEO of Pymetrics.
The company sells algorithms helping companies and job seekers to find the best match.
In this episode Frida tells us about her outsider position as a single parent in her late 30s when she started her business.
We also talk about how COVID-19 had an impact on her business because the reliance on digital tools increased. This includes the need of data and AI.
AI being a topic she feels like many people have a misunderstanding of.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#55 Brett Hurt – The importance of data as a resource for every business
My guest today is Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of data.world as well as author of the book “The Entrepreneur’s Essentials” and investor at Hurt Family Investors.
Data.world is a public benefit corporation and certified B corporation focused on building the modern catalog for data analysis.
During this episode Brett and I talk about him starting to program at a young age and the consequences of COVID-19 for their business and customers. Customers are for example Walmart and Home Depot.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
https://medium.com/@databrett
https://www.guardiansoftheforestbook.com
#54 Julian Teicke - Founder & CEO of Wefox, a tech startup that has raised over $260 Million
My guest today is Julian Teicke, an entrepreneur who founded the Wefox Group.
Wefox is a leading insurance tech firm from Berlin and Julian has achieved a great deal of success as a young businessman. In this episode, Julian and I talk about how he began his entrepreneurial journey when he was 16 years old by forming a music label that cost him a lot of money and failed.
We also talk about his views on what it means to be a great CEO and the skills that are needed to succeed.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#53 Brian Wong - Founder Kiip a mobile consumer engagement platform that advertises in “moments” in 10,000 apps
My guest today is Brian Wong he is the Founder of Kiip a mobile consumer engagement platform that advertises in “moments” in 10,000 apps, and the author of the book The Cheat Code.
The company was backed by over $40M in capital from Verizon Ventures, American Express Ventures, and others.
During this episode, Brian and I dive into his story of graduating high school at the age of 14 and university at 18. We also touch on how he came about starting his own company after a short time in Silicon Valley and how he is main skill is to make even most mundane of things interesting and exciting.
Today after selling his company, Brian is working on his next start-up “Himself” and focusing on his physical and mental health.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#52 Florian Heinemann - Founding Partner at Project A Ventures
My guest today is Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures.
Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet.
He has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago, Zalando, Audibene, and Home24 among many others.
In this episode, we talked about all things business and entrepreneurship by navigating what Florian had learned throughout his career as an entrepreneur and investor.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#51 James Sowers - Advising companies as an ICO and crypto asset Executive
My guest today is James Sowers who is a Korean-American businessman.
He is currently Advising companies as an ICO and crypto-asset Executive.
He has invested in over 30 startups and a dozen initial coin offerings.
During this episode James and I go over his story and how he became a successful investor.
James is always curious about new tech and what the next big thing is and is excited to advise and invest in businesses that have the potential to change the world.
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About Thomas Reck:
Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.
#50 Daniel Debow - VP of Commercial at Shopify who has built and sold 3 successful businesses.
My guest today is Daniel Debow he is the VP of Partnerships and Corporate Development at Shopify.
Daniel was CEO and founder of Helpful, a startup backed by Bessemer Ventures that was acquired by Shopify in 2019.
In this episode, Daniel shares with us an incredible amount of value and knowledge about what it means to be an entrepreneur.
From successfully building 4 business and now playing a key role at Shopify Daniel has learned a ton about what it takes to be successful and today he shares with us what his journey has taught him.
Link to blog: https://medium.com/helpful-com/how-to-be-an-effective-early-stage-employee-hint-be-helpful-e681b456a01f
#49 Grant Cardone - CEO of Cardone Capital which has over $1.8 Billion in assets under management
My guest today is Grant Cardone he is the CEO of Cardone Capital which has over $1.8 Billion in assets under management.
Grant has written 8 books and 13 bestselling business programs.
In this episode, we discover a lot about Grant and his journey one how he turned his life around by applying the same mindset of an addict into entrepreneurship and success.
Grant says that an addict will do whatever it takes and give zero excuses to get what they want, and we must take a similar approach of zero excuses and doing what it takes to achieve our goals.
#48 Guy Kawasaki - Chief Evangelist Officer for Canva
While Guy did not invent secular evangelism, he popularized it.
This goes back to 1983 and his work with the Macintosh Division of Apple when he successfully marketed apple’s Macintosh computer.
In this episode Guy and I chat about his journey and how he has been able to achieve the success he enjoys today thanks to his determination to outwork anyone and to not be afraid to do things, such as learning to play hockey in his 40’s and taking on surfing at 60. The Video Guy mentioned in the episode: youtu.be/2wZatfx2t0w
#47 Ariel Cohen - CEO & Co-Founder of TripAction who raised almost $1Billion in funding.
My guest today is Ariel Cohen he is the Co-Founder and CEO of TripAction. A travel management startup that focuses on helping companies handle their business travel planning within budget and effectively.
TripActions raised a total funding of $980M over 8 rounds, but for Ariel, it has been more about having the right resources that have truly helped him in building his company.
During the episode, we talk about these resources such as friendships, trusting your gut, and building a team you can rely on, we also chat about how AI is already changing many industries and how it will also change how we travel.
#46 Tilo Bonow - Founder and CEO of PIABO a digital PR agency that provides cutting edge PR to companies such as Facebook & LinkedIn
My guest today is Tilo Bonow he is the founder and CEO of PIABO, a public relations agency in Berlin, Germany.
Fueled by his vision to amplify brand performance for innovative companies by providing cutting edge public relations services, Tilo founded his agency and has led it to the success it is today.
In this episode, we also talk about the leap he made to become an investor and the reason why he values the connection between PR, Branding and Investing into startups.
#45 Ali Parsa - Founder and CEO of Babylon Which has raised over $635M.
My guest today is Ali Parsa, Ali is an engineer, a serial healthcare entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Babylon with the aim of putting an accessible and affordable health service into the hands of every person on earth, by using cutting-edge AI technology and the best medical experts to deliver access to digital health tools to everyone.
In this episode, we cover Ali’s story and how he came about founding his company and the resources and philosophies that have helped him be successful.
#44 Christian Wiens - Co-Founder and CEO of GetSafe, who has raised over $20M in funding to make healthcare more accessible for young people.
My guest today is Christian Wiens he is the Co-Founder and CEO of GetSafe.
Christian is challenging one of the largest industries in the world.
His company Getsafe is a digital insurance provider, a market leader for millennials in Germany and about to expand throughout Europe.
In this episode, we chat about how it all began for Christian, from founding his first startup in Berlin to moving to Heildelberg after successfully selling that company.
Once in Heidelberg he met his new co-founder and decided to follow on the footsteps of SAP and keep their company in the city to take advantage of the high-level engineering talent in that area of Germany.
#43 EXCLUSIVE PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH PETER PLATZER - About his recently inked $7M Contract with NASA
My guest today is Peter Platzer he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spire Global, a space data and analytics provider for weather, maritime, and aviation.
In this episode, Peter shares with us an incredible amount of value and knowledge about how he has built a company that is innovating in the area of climate and data to better understand how the planet is changing and in turn better serve the fight against climate change.
Washington Post NOAA study: https://spacenews.com/noaa-report-cites-plan-to-acquire-commercial-radio-occultation-data/
#42 Mathias Wengeler - Founder & CEO of Antheneum.ai which has raised over $21M
My guest today is Mathias Wengeler, he is the Founder and CEO of Atheneum Partners.
Mathias has an extensive due diligence experience with L.E.K. Consulting in Munich and Boston, during which he worked on over 80 private investment transactions across Europe and the Americas.
In this Episode, Mathias shares with us in insights on how he has successfully built his business and we also chat about how his consulting experience has been an instrumental factor to that success.
#41 Nicolas Bürer - Managing Director of Digital Switzerland & 2018 “Swiss Business Angel of the Year”
My guest today is Nicolas Bürer, the Managing Director of digitalswitzerland since October 2016.
Nicolas was recognised as the 2018 “Swiss Business Angel of the Year”.
He is a passionate entrepreneur and start-up investor.
In this episode, we talked about how he went from studying physics to corporate and later on into the world of entrepreneurship.
We also talked about the role personal branding plays in both entrepreneurship and investing and the value he puts to it.