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Talks with Petri

By Petri Kajander

Petri follows his curiosity and shares his talks with people building the future. The show explores personal discoveries and experiences with lessons learned. The real-talk conversations go deep where the purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.

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The long run is here

Talks with PetriAug 02, 2020

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The impossible equation

The impossible equation

Ahti Heinla talks about building companies that impact a massive amount of people, how even successful founders struggle and fail at times but also what’s the right approach to build a business case. He also reveals how his company managed to pull off something that a tier-one VC told to be impossible.

See the episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/ahti.

Guest bio

Ahti Heinla is the co-founder and CTO of Starship Technologies which is the world’s leading company creating local delivery robots. In 2002, he was part of the founding team of Skype and was the company’s Chief Technical Architect for the first five years. In 2008, Ahti helped to mobilise 3% of the population to clean Estonia's forests in a day.

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Nov 23, 202202:10:45
IKEA—Ingvar Kamprad’s startup from 1943

IKEA—Ingvar Kamprad’s startup from 1943

Hannu Ryopponen talks about working with Ingvar Kamprad, how he was as an entrepreneur and what made IKEA successful. He also reveals what happened when he travelled with Kamprad and met dignitaries.

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Guest bio

Hannu Ryöppönen is a private investor and board professional who, since the 1970s, has served as CFO of many international companies in London, New York, Copenhagen, Luxembourg and Stockholm. He worked for over 10 years in Ingvar Kamprad’s inner circle as a group CFO for IKEA.

Ryöppönen has held top executive positions in companies like Royal Ahold, Industri Kapital, Stora Enso, and he has been in non-executive positions on boards of Amer Sports, Samworth Brothers, ICA, Novo Nordisk, Billerud Korsnas and Neste, among others. Apart from his extensive experience in finance and strategy, he has spent well over half of his career in different sectors of the retail industry.

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Oct 25, 202201:19:03
You can fight gravity but cannot beat it

You can fight gravity but cannot beat it

Micke Paqvalén talks about building award winning companies, rough times, and almost dying while working too hard. He also reveals his first startup at early age, and founding of a flying boat company.

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Guest bio

Lars-Michaël (Micke) Paqvalén, M.Sc. (Econ.), is a company builder who has lived and worked internationally for over 25 years and exited four major software companies. He is the founder & chairman of TRÄ Group and Buildbite, co-founder of Brandbassador, Learning Intelligence Group (Claned & GraphoGame), Kiosked, Telepo, HansaWorld and an active early-stage investor in many disruptive companies, such as Proof Analytics among others. He is also on the Advisory Board of Nordic Innovation and Nordic Scalers, a pan-Nordic initiative to find and accelerate next-generation unicorns in the Nordics. During his tenure as an entrepreneur, he has been awarded the European ICT Grand Prize, the award for Best Enterprise Software solution at the Mobile World Congress, the growth entrepreneur of the year in both Finland and Sweden, the American and European Business Awards etc. Micke is a proud father of four children.

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Sep 25, 202201:03:52
Ukrainian startup ecosystem

Ukrainian startup ecosystem

Ukrainian investor and entrepreneur Andrew Zinchuk talks about what’s happening in the Ukrainian startup ecosystem, how things have evolved over the years and what’s expected to happen next. He also shares his insights into living and working in Ukraine during the war and where to find the best cocktails in town.

See the episode notes: www.talkswithpetri.com/ukrainian-startups.

Guest bio

Andrew Zinchuk is a VC & an entrepreneur with extensive experience in all stages of a startup ecosystem. He's the founder and general partner at ZAS Ventures. Previously, he was the managing director at a pre-team pre-idea startup incubator, and he has advised 100+ startups by acting as an advisor & mentor at Antler, Seedstars & Ukrainian Startup Fund.

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Sep 01, 202201:20:45
Founder burnout

Founder burnout

Mikko Revonniemi talks about the founding and the early years of Four Sigmatic, his burnout and the measures it took to overcome it. He also shares his insights from e-commerce marketing and how to get leads to your DTC startup.

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Guest bio

Mikko Revonniemi is a purpose-driven entrepreneur passionate about creating solutions for people to optimize their health and well-being on physical, mental, and spiritual levels. He is a co-founder at Four Sigmatic, a company focusing on medicinal mushrooms, and Taimi, which aims to solve nutrition-related diseases with personalized nutrition and data. He is an ex-trail runner and over-achiever whose new interest, after a long burnout, is in meaning and balance in all aspects of life.

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Jul 20, 202201:25:54
Entrepreneurs and inflation

Entrepreneurs and inflation

Per Bylund talks about the root cause of inflation, how to deal with it and why founders have some inherent advantages. He also explains the fiat currency scam and explores the wonders of MMT.

See the episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/bylund and the previous episode: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/consumer-is-sovereign.

Guest bio

Per Bylund is a Swede in Oklahoma, USA, where he works as associate professor of entrepreneurship and Johnny D. Pope Chair in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. He had careers in politics and as business consultant and systems developer before moving to the USA and starting a career in academia. He has also successfully failed as an entrepreneur no less than four times, experiences that he draws from when teaching students and writing columns for Entrepreneur  magazine.

He is an author of two books, The Problem of Production: A Theory of the Firm (Routledge, 2016) and The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives (Lexington, 2016), and has a third on the way (expected later in 2022). He is also actively discussing matters of the economy, entrepreneurship, and freedom on Twitter; follow him at @PerBylund.

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Jun 19, 202201:45:15
Speed and resilience in market downturns

Speed and resilience in market downturns

Henry Nilert talks about building startups during market crises and how you survive the volatile times. He also shares his founder stories of building and exiting to large corporates as well as his take on the venture studio business model.

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Guest bio

Henry Nilert is a Swedish entrepreneur with a background living and working in France, the US, the United Kingdom and Finland. He has extensive experience building successful startups, as co-founder of iobox, one of the largest early mobile entertainment portals in Europe, and co-founder of Credit24, a leading online lending platform in Finland, the Baltics, and beyond. As advisor and angel investor he has supported a large number of startups, with a focus on B2B SaaS and Fintech.

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May 22, 202201:48:07
Wartime CEO

Wartime CEO

Ukrainian startup founder Alyona Mysko talks about how to prepare and manage during the crisis, the role of individuals in society, and the reality of solopreneurship. She also reveals recruitment tips, and what to do in Moscow.

See the episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/alyona.

Guest bio

Alyona Mysko is the founder and CEO of Fuelfinance. She has worked in finance for more than 10 years, being an expert in financial planning and risk management. During this period, she was a lecturer for more than 1500 students and participated as a mentor in CEE SeedStars, EO business Incubator, Tech2 Impact programs. Two years ago, she launched her personal startup Fuelfinance, and set the Fuelfinance mission as “our goal is to save hundreds of thousands of SMBs from bankruptcies and unlock trillions of dollars in GDP growth”. She’s passionate about wakesurfing, Petrykivka painting and Ukrainian Art.

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Apr 18, 202201:05:33
Growth hacking with gamification

Growth hacking with gamification

Niels Bosma talks about doing marketing with a technical background, automating your workflows and what happens when friends become co-founders in the same company.

See the episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/niels.

Guest bio

Niels Bosma is a passionate growth hacker, product developer and angel investor. He builds growth engines.

His latest venture is Filestar that is revolutionising how people work with their files. He is also a co-founder of Offerta and Tessin, which is Scandinavia's first and largest platform for real estate financing. Niels loves to do side projects such as SeoTools for Excel. He is also an avid mountain biker.

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Mar 10, 202201:32:57
Improvise with a total bravery

Improvise with a total bravery

Multitalented artist Younee talks about her journey of self-discovery and rebellion in building a successful international career with many levels of accomplishments and renewal after prodigious domestic stardom in Korea. She also reveals how to push your limits and be  vulnerable in front of a live audience.

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Guest bio

YOUNEE from South Korea is a virtuoso, prize-winning pianist and an impressively talented and awarded singer/songwriter who, from an early age, has a desire to break the boundaries.

Her tuition begins at the age of three, then involves studying classical piano for the next twenty years. She is one of a small group of highly trained classical musicians who are equally at home on Jazz, Pop and Rock stages.

In 2006, she releases her first and highly successful debut album ‚Love’ (EMI) as "Key's Piano" in Korea, becomes a star in her native country and a permanent guest in TV-shows, festivals and contests. She is also highly active as a songwriter writing a string of pop songs for other Korean artists, such as the title song and No.1 hit of “Dan Hansaram” for the Korean TV drama “Famous Princesses” on KBS TV.

YOUNEE decides to move to England with the aim of writing and producing in collaboration with several icons of the British jazz scene and to release her English language crossover- album "True To You" in the UK. The album track ‘Home To You’ hits several radio charts in the US culminating in the No. 1 spot of the important AC-Chartbound listings, and YOUNEE, together with her co-writer, wins the category of ‘Best Songwriter’ at the Music Aid Awards.

Then she signed to a German record label, management and concert agency “Karsten Jahnke” in Hamburg and moved to Germany in 2013 where she has released two albums so far. She has performed at Jazzopen Stuttgart, Leverkusener Jazztage, Dresdener Jazztage, Woman in Jazz, Ingolstädter Jazztage, Beethoven Festival, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and many more in both classic and jazz stages.

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Correction: 1:34 "see the sounds as colours"
There were some serious technical challenges while recording this video, and it has been improvised from lower quality audio and video backup sources.

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Jan 20, 202201:17:29
Keep provoking happy accidents

Keep provoking happy accidents

Pierre Stanislas talks about finding opportunities in unexpected places, how to become insurtech leader and make waves with side projects. He also shares insights into the future of Clubdeck and web3 audio platforms.

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Guest bio

Pierre Stanislas is the CEO & co-founder of Wilow, and a co-founder of Clubdeck. He has worked in finance for 15 years (London & Paris), advising institutional clients on their strategy. In parallel, and just for fun, Pierre has developed and launched mobile apps in various fields such as gaming, social media, culture or sport, some of which have been downloaded by several thousand users. Passionate about sailing, music and martial arts, he has also written two novels in his spare time. Pierre holds an MSc from Ecole Centrale Paris.

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Dec 21, 202102:04:28
Efforts create the achievements

Efforts create the achievements

Amir Nashat talks about working with stellar people, how curiosity leads you to amazing results, and what is exciting in the biotech field. He also reveals how he met his childhood hero.

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Guest bio

Amir Nashat is a managing partner in Polaris’ Boston office. He joined Polaris in 2002 and focuses on investments in healthcare.

Additionally, Amir has served as a director of Adnexus Therapeutics (Bristol Myers Squibb), Athenix Corporation (Bayer), Avila Therapeutics (Celgene), Fate Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FATE), Freenome, Living Proof (Unilever), Promedior Pharmaceuticals (Roche), Receptos (Celgene), Selecta Biosciences (NASDAQ: SELB), Sun Catalytix (Lockheed Martin), and TARIS Biomedical (J&J).

In addition to his investment role, Amir has served as the CEO of Dewpoint, Jnana, Living Proof, Olivo Labs, and Sun Catalytix. Amir also serves on the Partners Innovation Fund and the Investment Advisory Committee for The Engine at MIT, and helped launch the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund as its active president.

He has been named to the Forbes Midas List of “Top 100 Venture Capitalists.”

Prior to joining Polaris, Amir completed his ScD as a Hertz Fellow in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a minor in Biology under the guidance of Dr. Robert Langer. Amir also earned both his MS and BS in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Nov 24, 202101:32:23
Building leaders with passion and purpose

Building leaders with passion and purpose

Hans-Peter “Hape” Siefen talks about building an international brand with a loyal customer base, the role of marketing and sales in organic growth and how Jim Collins has shaped their company. He also reveals some amazing moments with Jack Welch and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

See the episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/hape/.

Guest bio

Hape is a sales boy who turned into an entrepreneur. He is a family guy who enjoys spending time in nature and on the lakes of Finland. Hape founded Nordic Business Group 11 years ago with his business partner, Jyri LIndén, whom he met at a university lecture. His professional passion is in inspiring and educating people about business and leadership - and also in building a thrilling business himself.

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Oct 27, 202101:24:22
Learning together makes things easier

Learning together makes things easier

Sami Benchekroun talks about the three phases of startup growth from bootstrapping to scaling and raising over €20m in funding. We discuss the role of mentorship and finding the right type of investors but also some French puns are involved.

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Guest bio

Sami Benchekroun is the Co-Founder and CEO of Morressier, the virtual conference provider and platform for the scientific community. Sami has over ten years of experience in academic conferences, scholarly publishing, and entrepreneurship. He drives Morressier's vision forward and is dedicated to increasing the impact and reach of professional and scientific conferences. A frequent industry contributor, Sami serves as a scientific communications lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin. He has a background studying management at ESCP Europe.

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Sep 29, 202101:20:32
Rudeboy makes people feel the beat

Rudeboy makes people feel the beat

Ville Virtanen talks about what happens when you are hit by Sandstorm and how to cope with expectations, success and stay relevant over time. This episode is totally out of control so just feel the vibe and tune in.

See the episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/darude/.

Guest bio

Famed for the global platinum-selling smash ‘Sandstorm’, Darude is recognised as one of the most influential artists to emerge from the dance scene. With a DJ style that is a mixture of progressive and uplifting trance, fused with elements of tech, breaks and house, Darude’s music delivers a dynamic energy that gets any dance floor moving.

With over 15 years of heavily touring North and South America, as well as leading shows in Asia and Australasia his resume of accolades is a testament to the exponential growth of his profile as an international artist. Over the years he’s appeared on TV channels such as BBC, NBC, CNN and MTV, as well as having won several prestigious awards such as 2 x German Dance Awards, Dance Star Award, USA Golden Turntable DJ Award and he is a 3 x Finnish Grammy Award winner. His name has also appeared in numerous public-voted polls with previous entries in Top 100 DJs Poll and Americas Favourite DJ.

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Sep 16, 202102:12:53
If it's smart it's vulnerable

If it's smart it's vulnerable

Mikko Hypponen talks about how to protect your company against security threats, why ransomware is so common, the future of cyberwars and why you should trust the cloud. He also reveals how he crashed his customer's brand new car.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/if-its-smart-its-vulnerable/.

Guest bio

Mikko Hypponen is a global security expert. He has worked at F-Secure since 1991.

Mr. Hypponen has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge.

He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.

Mikko has a book out on the topics we discussed, see https://ifitssmartitsvulnerable.com for more information.

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May 15, 202101:34:56
Founder non grata

Founder non grata

Jaakko Villa talks about co-founding a successful growth company Idean and running it for many years but what happens when the co-founders part ways and his legacy is nowhere to be seen anymore. We also cover how to transform from direct sales to digital sales processes and what is an ethical design agency.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/founder-non-grata/.

Guest bio

Jaakko Villa is a Finnish customer experience serial entrepreneur. He is currently managing Puheet customer community engagement SaaS business. In 2020, he co-founded Alpha Design Partners and already in 1999 the UX design firm Idean. At leisure time, he enjoys motorcycling and sports, especially basketball and badminton. He is easy to work with and enjoys helping fellow entrepreneurs where he can.

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Apr 15, 202101:17:15
The golden right of first refusal

The golden right of first refusal

Erik Byrenius talks about scaling his startup and the intriguing turns with strategic investments that led to an optimal exit situation. He also shares his lessons from +50 angel investments and where to find the best ice-cream in Manhattan.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/erik-byrenius.

Guest bio

Erik Byrenius is a Swedish foodtech entrepreneur who turned investor. He has spent the last few years giving back to the startup ecosystem by doing investments, working with philanthropy and building StartupTools.org with free resources for startups. He is now running Trellis Road, focusing on high-impact foodtech and agritech startups globally, investing at seed stage.

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Mar 14, 202101:37:32
Bootstrapping your way to success

Bootstrapping your way to success

Heikki Väänänen, the co-founder of HappyOrNot, talks about his entrepreneurial journey from bootstrapping to raising over 40m EUR funding and scaling the company to +200 employees, and stepping down from the CEO role after 20 years. He also tells why it's a good idea to wear a company T-shirt.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/bootstrapping-your-way-to-success/.

Guest bio

Heikki Väänänen, 40, has worked most of his life as an entrepreneur. The idea of HappyOrNot was born, when at the age of 15, he received bad customer service at a store he visited. He wondered whether there would be a better solution to give feedback and came up with the idea of the new service. However, he did not execute his idea right away and let it mature for a few more years. In those years, he graduated  as a Master of Science in Technology and founded, at the age of 20, his own gaming company Universomo. He has held board member roles in several technology and services companies, with a proven track record of increasing sales and profitability. With his combined experience and expertise, Heikki has directed the successful strategic development and sale of six Finnish companies, including the sale of Universomo to THQ – the second largest gaming company in the world.

In 2009 HappyOrNot was born. The Smiley devices measuring customer satisfaction can be found at various locations, like grocery stores, pharmacies and airports, in more than 120 countries around the world. The HappyOrNot service has currently collected 2 billion feedbacks - a record in the customer feedback market space. While the idea of the Smiley devices is simple and the way of giving feedback is easy, the feedback data enables actionable insights and empowers companies to develop their business by improving their customer experience.

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Feb 15, 202101:08:06
Embrace negotiations with a creative mindset without compromises

Embrace negotiations with a creative mindset without compromises

Joshua Weiss talks about why you should not compromise or plan when negotiating, how to avoid common misconceptions, how to deal with bullies and power moves but also become a better negotiator and embrace the process. He also reveals why he did not become a lawyer.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/embrace-negotiations/.

Guest bio

Dr. Joshua N. Weiss is the co-founder, with William Ury, of the Global Negotiation Initiative at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project. He is also the Director and creator of the Master of Science degree in Leadership and Negotiation at Bay Path University. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in 2002.

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Dec 06, 202001:08:08
Value-based selling with sales cowboys and the dark side of customer relationships

Value-based selling with sales cowboys and the dark side of customer relationships

Paul Viio talks about the difficulty of finding good salespeople, why the majority of companies are underperforming in sales and why you should not hire the top salespeople. He also tells about a cheesy meeting in Paris.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/value-based-selling.

Guest bio

Dr. Paul Viio is a leading expert in B2B value-based selling & sales management. He has worked internationally in sales for over 25 years, in addition to which he has a Ph.D. in selling and sales management. He is an entrepreneur, published author/researcher, and the only person in the world holding two professorships in selling & sales management at two top business schools concurrently.

Paul is a sought-after B2B sales keynote speaker, executive trainer, and advisor to companies. He has taught, trained, advised, and helped hundreds of executives and companies globally to improve their sales performance.

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Nov 22, 202001:45:14
Average Joe - the tech genius could be you

Average Joe - the tech genius could be you

Shawn Livermore talks about the great myths surrounding tech founders, how to unleash your creativity, the secrets & magic of growth, and what is a nagging pull. He also shares his views on introverts and ladders.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/average-joe-the-tech-genius/.

Guest bio

Shawn Livermore is a tech startup founder, entrepreneur, and technology consultant for over 20 years. He’s written books on software development and writes software in many programming languages. After raising investment capital for his startups 6 times, Shawn began to look beyond
 the code to see the bigger picture: The systems, patterns, and models of thinking that most deserve our attention. Instead of hype and hustle, Shawn focuses on tangible, factual, and replicable bits
and bytes that most people wouldn’t see or pay attention to. From small fragments, Shawn can assemble larger stories, to help people think, speak, and create like a tech genius.

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Nov 08, 202001:00:48
Success through failure, innovation and imitation

Success through failure, innovation and imitation

Johan Norberg talks about the misfits, rebels and innovators that push the reluctant society into progress, the role of entrepreneurs and why this is a scary moment in time. He also reveals why founders are only getting 2.2 per cent of the value they create and who's getting the rest.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/success-through-failure-innovation-and-imitation/.

Guest bio

Johan Norberg is an author, lecturer and documentary filmmaker who specializes in the big questions, from liberty and progress to entrepreneurship, globalization and the hidden dichotomies shaping the world. He is a native of Sweden, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. and the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels. He is a frequent commentator in Swedish and international media. In 2018 he received the Walter Judd Freedom Award, previously awarded to luminaries such as Garry Kasparov and Ronald Reagan.

Norberg has written over 20 books covering a broad range of topics, including global economics and popular science. His breakthrough title, In Defence of Global Capitalism (2003), was published in over 25 countries. His latest book, Open – The Story of Human Progress (2020), is a grand odyssey through history’s ever-changing tides of connection and isolation, exchange and protectionism, open borders and closed minds. It has been praised by The Economist as ”amusing as well as illuminating”, ”clear, colorful and convincing”.

His previous book, the celebrated Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016) was chosen as the Book of the Year by The Economist, Guardian and Observer. It has been translated to 20 languages (so far).

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Oct 25, 202001:12:53
Building communities with the standard you walk past

Building communities with the standard you walk past

Bailey Richardson talks about community building on Instagram's early years, The Social Dilemma phenomenon including her interview in the documentary, and how to find yourself in hedgehog cafes in Tokyo.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/building-communities/.

Guest bio

Bailey started People & Company with Kai and Kevin in 2016. Their mission is to help people bring their people together. They interview extraordinary people organizers on their podcast and theypublished a book on how to build communities today.

In the past, she grew the early community around Instagram, where she was one of the first employees. She has also worked at IDEO, StoryCorps, Pop-Up Magazine and The California Sunday Magazine, made a short film about a Pinoy inventor named Dado Banatao, interviewed Russians who are LGBTQ about what their lives are really like, asked Casey Neistat how to make and share videos people love, and started a Queer Pool Club.

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Oct 11, 202001:09:02
From products to an experience mindset

From products to an experience mindset

Jurgen Appelo talks about failing to find a product/market fit, how you pivot, adapt and move on in turmoil as well as shifting up to an experience mindset. He also warns about dangers in Canada.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/from-products-to-an-experience-mindset/.

Guest bio

Jurgen Appelo calls himself a creative networker. But sometimes he’s a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, or… Dutch guy. Inc.com has called him a Top 50 Leadership Expert and a Top 100 Leadership Speaker. Since 2008, Jurgen writes a popular blog at NOOP.NL, offering ideas on the creative economy, agile management, organizational change, and personal development. He is the author of the book Management 3.0, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations; How to Change the World, which describes a supermodel for change management; Managing for Happiness, which offers you practical ideas to engage workers, improve work, and delight clients; and most recently, Startup, Scaleup, Screwup, which contains 50% inspiring stories and 50% practices to follow and dives into the major topics that business leaders and entrepreneurs are confronted with throughout the business lifecycle.

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Sep 27, 202001:13:12
Curators are the new creators

Curators are the new creators

Slush CEO Miika Huttunen talks about how to adapt to the new reality and change your business in 4 months, the relevance of esports & gaming and the future of business events. He also explores Second Reality and LAN-parties.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/curators-are-the-new-creators/.

Guest bio

Miika Huttunen is the CEO of Slush, a global movement with a mission to create and help founders. Formerly Miika acted as Chief Operating Officer at Slush. Huttunen is highly curious about everything related to gaming: computer graphics, esports, communities, and many others. Miika also has an extensive background in various volunteer communities like Slush, Assembly, Vaasa Entrepreneurship Society, and World Economic Forum's Global Shapers.

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Sep 12, 202001:07:21
Personalised learning with service design thinking

Personalised learning with service design thinking

Entrepreneur Kadri Tuisk explores the future of education with personalised learning, why she loves design thinking and being outside of her comfort zone. She also talks about startup pivoting and hitchhiking to her first career.

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Guest bio

Entrepreneur Kadri Tuisk is the CEO of Clanbeat Education, an ed-tech Saas software that supports accelerating human growth by helping to build human agency through individual growth and community support. Kadri has accelerated her startup with 500 Startups in San Francisco, pivoted a few times, and found market traction in the challenging times of the 2020s. Previously, she has worked in service design and account management positions, and as a professional model.

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Aug 30, 202001:10:31
Finder, minder, grinder and a marmot advocate

Finder, minder, grinder and a marmot advocate

Preston Byrne talks about how disruption hits education and service careers, the future of decentralised finance, and why you should avoid VC funding.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/marmot-advocate/.

Guest bio

Preston has had a few careers - a lawyer in England, a founder of a blockchain software startup, then a lawyer in America, and throughout, a marmot habitat conservation proponent on Twitter. Presently he's a partner in the New York office of Anderson Kill, where he advises early-stage companies and venture funds, particularly businesses involved in crypto, on corporate and technology law.

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Aug 23, 202054:13
How to succeed in content marketing

How to succeed in content marketing

Entrepreneur Benji Hyam shares his inside view to successful content marketing, where you should focus and what to expect, and how to get results. He also reveals his life-changing movie experience.

See the episode notes and transcript: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/how-to-succeed-in-content-marketing/.

Guest bio

Entrepreneur Benji Hyam lives in San Diego, California and he is the co-founder of Grow and Convert (a content marketing agency). He also co-founded the SaaS app Wordable.io (which was acquired in Nov 2017).

Previously, he lived in San Francisco for two years where he ran marketing for two different venture-backed startups – Everwise and Thinkapps.

Before making the move to San Francisco, he lived in San Diego for 16 years where he started his first content agency Social Proof Interactive, worked at Mitek Systems and Vistage Worldwide– both in marketing.

He enjoys surfing, travelling, and eating great food.

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Aug 16, 202001:17:52
Nail it before you scale it

Nail it before you scale it

Lars Tvede talks about people and ideas entrepreneurs, navigating business cycles, how to inspire people and have fun while remote working, and what it takes to be a lucky person.

See the full episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/nail-it-before-you-scale-it/.

Guest bio

Entrepreneur and investor Lars Tvede holds a Master's degree in Engineering and a Bachelor's degree in International Commerce, and he is a certified derivatives trader from National Futures Association in Chicago. Lars Tvedes books have been published in 11 languages and more than 50 editions.

Lars spent 11 years in portfolio management and investment banking before moving to the high-tech and telecommunications industries in the mid 1990s, where he has been co-founder of several award-winning companies within the satellite, Internet and mobile space.

He is also founder of Beluga, a successful financial trading company. Lars was listed in The Guru Guide to Marketing as one of the Worlds 62 leading thinkers of marketing strategy.

Lars Tvede has appeared as guest host on CNBC and as TEDTalks speaker and is frequently covered in media.

He lives in Zug, Switzerland with his family. His hobbies include skiing, sailing and collecting Italian sports cars and wine.

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Aug 09, 202001:09:10
The long run is here

The long run is here

Daniel Lacalle talks about bubbles and central bank traps, practical tips for individuals, why we are not learning from history and what's the role of human ingenuity.

See the full episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/long-run-is-here/.


Guest bio

Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Life in the Financial Markets (Wiley, 2015), The Energy World Is Flat (Wiley, 2015) and Escape from the Central Bank Trap (Business Expert Press, 2017). He is a professor of Global Economy at IE Business School in Madrid.

Ranked as one of the top twenty most influential economists in the world in 2016 and 2017 by Richtopia, he holds the CIIA financial analyst title, with a post-graduate degree in higher business studies and a master’s degree in economic investigation. He is a member of the advisory board of the Rafael del Pino Foundation and Commissioner of the Community of Madrid in London.

Lacalle is a regular collaborator with CNBC, Bloomberg TV, BBC, Hedgeye, Seeking Alpha, Business Insider, Mises Institute, and The Epoch Times as well as an occasional consultant for The World Economic Forum, Focus Economics, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other major news publications around the world.

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Aug 02, 202048:54
Consumer is sovereign

Consumer is sovereign

Per Bylund talks about the role of entrepreneurship in society, what's wrong with economics, why prices are always rising and how to spend a year in Hawaii.

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Guest bio

Per Bylund is a Swede in Oklahoma, USA, where he works as assistant professor of entrepreneurship in the Spears School of Business. He had careers in politics and as business consultant and systems developer before moving to the USA and starting a career in academia. He has also successfully failed as an entrepreneur no less than four times, experiences that he draws from when teaching students and writing columns for Entrepreneur magazine.

He is an author of two books, The Problem of Production: A Theory of the Firm (Routledge, 2016) and The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives (Lexington, 2016), and associate editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. A fellow of the Mises Institute, he is a frequent guest in its Economics for Entrepreneurs podcast. He is also actively discussing matters of the economy, entrepreneurship, and freedom on Twitter; follow him at @PerBylund .

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Jul 26, 202001:43:01
Mixing startups and VC with French seasoning

Mixing startups and VC with French seasoning

Tero Mennander talks about missing the perfect exit window and life as a VC in France and the Nordics. He also reveals his connection to Leningrad.

See the full episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/mixing-startups-and-vc-with-french-seasoning/.


Guest bio

Tero has been General Partner with Ventech since 2016 and brings operational, entrepreneurial and investment experience in innovation. With an office in Helsinki and Paris, he covers Ventech’s investment activities in the Nordic countries, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.

During his times as an investor (1998 – 2006) for Sitra and as General Partner with Nordic Venture Partners he led numerous early-stage Nordic investments such as u-Nav Microelectronics (acquired by Atheros), CRF Health (acquired by Vitruvian Partners), Continuent (acquired by WMware), and MAC (acquired by Meconet). He has also held several Investment Committee and Advisory Board positions in European and US VC funds. During his tenure with Nokia (2006 – 2012) he held leadership positions in Corporate Development, Venturing and M&A. 

Earlier in his career, he worked in business development for Boeing Corp.

Most recently Tero founded and was the CEO of PulseOn (2012-2015), a connected wearables company specializing in optical sensors and algorithms.

Tero holds a Msc. in Industrial Economics from Université de Genève and an MEB from Solvay Business School, Université libre de Bruxelles. Tero has lived and studied or worked in Belgium, Switzerland, UK, Russia, USA, and Finland.

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Jul 19, 202048:40
Context brings content to audio

Context brings content to audio

Tom Mayr talks about audio as the last medium without a big platform, how to approach two-sided markets as a startup and why not all likes are the same.

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Guest bio

Tom Mayr is an entrepreneur who has been fascinated by sound all his life. He started with music and later moved on founding companies with his old music band members. Currently, he’s the CEO and co-founder of Voicehub that is disrupting the growing audio market with their unique take on the spoken audio.

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Jul 12, 202059:18
Serendipitous journey through geopolitical storms

Serendipitous journey through geopolitical storms

Razeen Sally talks about the threat of China, the role of Singapore in the new volatile world, what’s ahead of us in geopolitics and what he discovered in Sri Lanka.

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Guest bio

Razeen Sally is a Sri Lankan-British writer. His new book, a travel memoir, is Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Island (Juggernaut). He is a visiting associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and previously taught at the London School of Economics.

He was chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, the main economic-policy think tank in Sri Lanka, and senior adviser to the minister of finance. He has been director of the European Centre for International Political Economy, a global-economy think tank in Brussels, and has held visiting research and teaching positions in the USA, France, Australia and Hong Kong. He was also chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness.

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Jul 05, 202001:37:24
Branded water with a square meter of art

Branded water with a square meter of art

Tomi Grönfors talks about challenges in building a consumer brand, how to price your products and wrestle with your personal issues without shame. He also reveals why a road trip may last only a few kilometres with empty bottles.

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Guest bio

Tomi Grönfors is the CEO and co-founder of Sniffie, a pricing automation growth company. He has founded several companies such as VEEN, a luxury water brand, and a marketing agency Malja BTL. He has also acted as an interim manager for SSH and Unmonday. Tomi is a passionate wrestler in his free time and enjoys family life in Finland.

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Jun 28, 202059:41
Passionate people build products

Passionate people build products

Venture capitalist Sakari Pihlava talks about the future of the SaaS business model, how to make a career in VC, the dangers of pricing and what to do with YouTube.

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Guest bio

Sakari Pihlava is a General Partner at Vendep Capital that invests in early-stage B2B software companies.

Sakari has 20+ years of software business and venture capital experience from startup to IPO in Europe and the East Coast of the United States. He spent 6 years at F-Secure and built a new encryption product line, which grew to €17 million and 42% of total sales at the F-Secure 1999 IPO. Since then he has spent 4.5 years at TVM Capital, a trans-Atlantic venture fund with more than €1 billion under management in Munich and Boston and 3.5 years at Efecte, a leading Nordic IT service management company, before coming to Vendep.

Sakari’s background is especially strong in enterprise software having worked during his career with all publicly listed security companies and their Founders in Finland.

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Jun 21, 202001:06:40
Check your odds while playing games and delivering food

Check your odds while playing games and delivering food

Elias Aalto talks about the early days of Wolt, how to win an Apple Design Award and why startups are overhyped as a career path and what not to do when you have an audience of millions of people.

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Guest bio

Elias Aalto is a co-founder and the original product lead of Wolt – one of the fastest growing food delivery companies in Europe. After its inception in 2014, Wolt has raised over 250M€ in funding and serves 22 countries and 80 cities around Europe and Asia. Elias is a generalist switching between coding, design and business. He started developing for iOS from the very launch of App Store becoming the first Apple Design Award winner in the Nordics for his game Wooden Labyrinth 3D. Simultaneously, Elias co-founded Qvik – a digital consultancy – that has organically grown to 10M€ revenue and today employs close to a hundred specialists in design, mobile, cloud and AI.

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Jun 14, 202001:38:59
Hai and thank you says it all

Hai and thank you says it all

Stefan Björkman explains the investment climate ahead of us, reveals his management secret, talks about a good company board, and what’s the purpose of glue in business. 

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Guest bio

After 30 years of managing growth companies, international industrials and financial institutions Stefan Björkman heads a cultural endowment since two years. Never really adjusting to being neither an engineer nor an expert of any kind, he is content being an ever-curious generalist. In addition to his day job, Stefan is a board professional and angel investor with experience from over 50 companies.

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Jun 07, 202055:21
Curious angel seeks happiness by learning

Curious angel seeks happiness by learning

Hampus Jakobsson talks about living in the moment, the biggest challenges for humanity, who are the most interesting people and why hearing is important while cooking. 

See the episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/curious-angel-seeks-happiness-by-learning/.

Guest bio

Hampus Jakobsson is an investor focused on climate. Earlier he was at Blueyard, and before that he co-founded Brisk (folded) and TAT (acquired by Blackberry). He has angel invested in 100+ companies and blogs at http://www.hajak.se.

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May 31, 202001:25:33
Pragmatic anarchist surfs the waves of impact

Pragmatic anarchist surfs the waves of impact

Richard Georg Engström talks about how to make films in Scandinavia, navigate unknown and uncultivated opportunities, what is impact and what it means to be happy. 

See the full episode notes: https://www.talkswithpetri.com/pragmatic-anarchist.

Guest bio

Entrepreneur Richard Georg Engström has been building several companies and organisations during the last 20 years as an entrepreneur in technology, media & entertainment, and in the sustainable, political and civil society sectors. He loves to show leadership at unknown and uncultivated markets.

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May 24, 202059:33
Make your work visible

Make your work visible

Ville Tolvanen talks about finding your audience, how to deal with trolls and why virtual activists are the future leaders. 

See the full episode notes: https://www.petrikajander.com/make-your-work-visible/. 

Guest bio

Ville Tolvanen is a digitalist era active avant-garde, a forerunner that has made a significant difference in how the Finnish leaders, brands and experts grasp the opportunities of digitalisation.

He is recognized as the co-founder of Q.P.R. Software, Intervisio, Cor Group, Rome Advisors and Digitalist Group.

He has been voted as Top Three Global Social Media Influencers by Forbes, voted as number one marketing visionary in Finland by Markkinointi & Mainonta Journal as well as listed the Best Finnish Social Media Brand in 2017.

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May 17, 202001:00:04
Watching TV pays off

Watching TV pays off

Taavi Rõivas talks about his experience as the youngest prime minister in the EU, the future of nation states and his latest movie role. 

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Guest bio

Taavi Rõivas is an Estonian politician, a Member of the Parliament, a former leader of the Reform Party and former Prime Minister of Estonia. In December 2012, Rõivas became the youngest member of the Estonian Government as the Minister of Social Affairs. Rõivas became Prime Minister in 2014. At the time, Rõivas was the youngest government leader in the European Union. Taavi Rõivas’ wife is singer Luisa Rõivas, and they have three children.

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Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.

The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.

If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

May 10, 202059:06
There is no Control-Z

There is no Control-Z

Joey Kilrain talks about tough times, making sure your plan A does not fail, running for wrong reasons, how to mix paints and repair cars while building websites. 

See the full episode notes at https://www.talkswithpetri.com/there-is-no-control-z/.

Guest bio

Born and raised in South Philly, Joey Kilrain’s artistic style evolves as a product of his ongoing life lessons. He integrates traditional media such as acrylic, pen & ink, papier mâché with mobile & web technologies. He cut his teeth at Art Institute of Philadelphia and SVA. His work has been exhibited in New York City at Ward Nasse, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, ArtBreak Gallery, Governors Island, Art Gotham, Haven Arts. His work has been published in Adobe’s Web Design Journal, Village Voice, and New York Magazine.

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Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.

The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.

If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

May 03, 202001:00:48
City-hopping between trail runs

City-hopping between trail runs

Christopher Lingle talks about his long experience of working around the world without a permanent place of residence. We also cover economics, monetary policy, human liberty, trail running and where to find good coffee.

See the full episode notes at https://www.talkswithpetri.com/city-hopping-between-trail-runs/.

Guest Bio

Christopher Lingle earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Georgia in 1977 and has been employed at universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America & USA.

He is a passionate supporter of human creativity and volunteer actions that lead to social harmony. To this end, he travels relentlessly to anywhere in the globe to discuss the impact of institutions and public policy on human liberty and dignity.

Currently, he is Visiting Professor of Economics in the Escuela de Negocios at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala (since 1998), Adjunct Scholar at the Centre for Independent Studies (Sydney), Research Scholar at the Centre for Civil Society (New Delhi), International Political Economic Advisor for the Asian Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs (Kathmandu) and Research Fellow at Advocata (Colombo, Sri Lanka).

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Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.

The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.

If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Apr 26, 202048:07
That is so rude

That is so rude

Designer Sandra Luks talks about finding your true passion and how it may take a few detours before you’re sure what you really want to do with your life.

See the full episode notes at https://www.talkswithpetri.com/that-is-so-rude/.

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Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.

The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.

If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

Apr 26, 202023:47
Futurist thinks it is your choice

Futurist thinks it is your choice

Christopher Peterka talks with Petri about cyborgs, AI, the role of nation-states and the future of humanity. He also reveals why rosé helps in book writing.

See the full episode notes at https://www.talkswithpetri.com/futurist-thinks-it-is-your-choice/.

Guest bio

Christopher Peterka talks with Petri about cyborgs, AI, the role of nation-states and the future of humanity. He also reveals why rosé helps in book writing.  See the episode notes and transcript: http://www.talkswithpetri.com/futurist-thinks-it-is-your-choice//  Jump straight to the start at 0:33.  Guest bio:  Christopher Patrick Peterka is a futurist and humanist. With the think tank gannaca and the NextGen cluster THE HUS.institute, he advises organizations worldwide on their innovation culture and future strategy. His particular interest is dedicated to the new rules in the economy and society of the Digital Modern Era. A father of two and already a cyborg, he strives for practical change and is driven to make the world a better place by leveraging an entirely new thinking that implies teaching humaneness to robots as well. Peterka’s latest book is Your choice.

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Talks with Petri -podcast helps startup founders and entrepreneurs to build their business by inspiring and sharing knowledge from other founders, thought leaders and people who are building the future.

The show explores personal stories and experiences with lessons learned. The international guests are building the future in culture, arts, business, economics, technology or they are having big ideas. The real talk conversations go deep but the tone is entertaining. The purpose is always to learn more and share the know-how with others.

If you like the podcast please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or get me a coffee. You can also send me feedback and suggestions.

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