Buildcast

Alison Rushworth is an experienced digital consultant with a track record of driving business value through innovation, customer strategy and experience design. With more than 20 years of experience in product/service design and digital strategy, Alison is a recognised expert in human behaviour.

We caught up with Alison to talk designers as leaders, what design approaches can bring to building companies, and how to approach new technologies.

Ella Rabener has a proven track record of entrepreneurship in the fintech sector, having played a key role in the launch and development of wealth management platform Scalable Capital before joining DV as Partner and Managing Director. She has also founded and led companies in the furniture and fashion sectors, including Westwing.ru, and is currently a managing director and partner at BCGDV, where she’s responsible primarily for fintech.

We sat down with Ella to talk about the current state of innovation in the finance sector, covering the new offerings from the big tech companies, how legacy financial institutions can innovate, and the role startups can play in pushing finance forward.

Markus Mutz is currently CEO of OpenSC, an impact venture built by DV in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund for Nature that uses advanced technology to enable more sustainable, ethical, and profitable supply chains. Before OpenSC, Markus was a Venture Architect Director at DV, where he worked in both Berlin and Sydney.

We caught up with Markus to talk about the potential of social venturing and the importance of transparency.

Amaryllis Liampoti is currently Partner and Director of Growth at DV, where she’s led the growth operations of several DV ventures. She has previously worked at Rocket Internet and co-founded camping booking platform Campsy.com. We caught up with her to talk about the future of growth tactics and achieving traction, and get her advice to new entrepreneurs.

Buildcast is a brand new podcast brought to you by BCG Digital Ventures. We talk to a diverse set of guests, from CEOs and engineers to designers and product managers, about their experiences building businesses.

For this episode, we sat down with Calvin Hung. Calvin has worked for some of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing startups, Disney, and Yahoo. Now he’s in Berlin, building companies with BCGDV. We caught up with him to talk blockchain ventures, the Chinese technology scene, and why he describes himself as an ‘accidental PM’.

Buildcast is a brand new podcast brought to you by BCG Digital Ventures. We talk to a diverse set of guests, from CEOs and engineers to designers and product managers, about their experiences building businesses.

For this episode, we sat down with Yael Biran. We talk to Yael about her varied career, in which she's worked for AirBnB and Octopus Now, and also started her own company, Flag. We cover the different attitudes to building companies all over the world, and talk about her recent experience building social impact ventures.

Buildcast is a brand new podcast brought to you by BCG Digital Ventures. We talk to a diverse set of guests, from CEOs and engineers to designers and product managers, about their experiences building businesses.

For this episode, we sat down with Arndt Roller. Arndt has been building businesses since the early days of the commercial Internet. We spoke to him about how he sees digital as a means to an end, his time leading Europe's largest online dating service, and what drives him today.

Buildcast is a brand new podcast brought to you by BCG Digital Ventures. We talk to a diverse set of guests, from CEOs and engineers to designers and product managers, about their experiences building businesses. Our first season focuses on the European startup ecosystem.

For this episode, we sat down with Jasson Schrock. Jasson has an impressive CV, having worked on YouTube just after its acquisition by Google and then on Google News in its early days. We talked to him about how design impacts business, his experience building companies, and what he thinks is the most important factor in success or failure.

Buildcast is a brand new podcast brought to you by BCG Digital Ventures.

Each episode we sit down with CEOs and entrepreneurs, designers and engineers with a diverse set of backgrounds. The thing they have in common: a desire to build. We talk to them about a company or product they’ve built, how they went about it, and what they learned along the way.

In our first series, we’ll cover Europe’s first online dating service, the early days of YouTube, building social ventures--and so much more.

Stay tuned for stories of entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology from the forefront of venture building.