Steven Puri, CEO of The Sukha Company and former Hollywood VFX executive (Independence Day, Godzilla), shares the rituals, behavioral frameworks, and AI-powered systems he uses to help founders reach deep work in distraction-heavy environments.

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Why this episode matters: Attention is a founder's scarcest resource. Puri's systems for protecting deep work are practical leverage for anyone building under constant interruption.

In this episode, we cover:

• Steven Puri (CEO, The Sukha Company) on reaching deep work
• Rituals and behavioral frameworks for focus
• AI-powered systems that protect attention
• Beating distraction in high-interruption environments
• Lessons from a Hollywood VFX career applied to founders

Related episodes: Deep Work for Founders (Sukha) · Xaver Lehmann on Founder Burnout.

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Steven Puri, co-founder/CEO of Sukha, shares his flow-state playbook for startup founders: body doubling, the coffee-shop effect, chronotype time-blocking, demo-first standups, and outcome-based leadership — and how to beat the 22-minute cost of a context switch.

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Why this episode matters: Small, repeatable rituals compound into real output. Puri's playbook turns focus from willpower into a system founders can actually run.

In this episode, we cover:

• Steven Puri (Sukha) on the founder flow-state playbook
• Body doubling and the coffee-shop effect
• Chronotype time-blocking and demo-first standups
• Outcome-based leadership over activity
• Beating the 22-minute context-switch tax

Related episodes: Flow-State Systems for Founders · Xaver Lehmann on Founder Burnout.

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In this September 2025 wrap-up, hosts Jörn Menninger and Chris Fahrenbach break down the signals that matter for B2B operators: where capital is flowing, how deep tech is commercializing, and what shifting regulatory winds mean for product and go-to-market.

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Why this matters for deep tech: The through-line is deep-tech commercialization — how hard technology turns into revenue and product, and what shifting regulation means for it.

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• Signals that matter for B2B operators
• Where capital is flowing in DACH
• How deep tech is commercializing into products
• Regulatory shifts and their GTM implications
• Jörn Menninger and Chris Fahrenbach on September 2025

Related deep-tech episodes: Deep Tech AI & DACH Funding · Europe's Defence-Tech Supercycle.

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A Berlin AI unicorn skyrocketed from $350M to $2.3B in months. Meanwhile fintech giant N26 faces its most severe governance crisis yet as its co-founder CEO steps down under regulatory pressure — and Europe's climate-tech sector booms with mega-rounds.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Behind the fintech drama, the deep-tech signal is clear: a Berlin AI unicorn's rapid revaluation and a booming climate-tech sector are where the durable value is forming.

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• Berlin's AI unicorn jumping from $350M to $2.3B
• N26's governance crisis and CEO stepping down (fintech)
• Europe's climate-tech mega-funding boom
• What rapid AI revaluations signal
• The split between fintech risk and deep-tech momentum

Related deep-tech episodes: Deep Tech AI & DACH Funding · Climate-Tech SaaS vs Greenwashing.

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What if fixing hard water could also save energy and rivers? That's the question Maximilian Wilk, co-founder & CEO of AQON PURE, set out to answer. His team built a salt-free water softener that prevents limescale, lowers energy bills, and avoids the chloride pollution of salt-based systems.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Water tech is unglamorous deep tech: physics and chemistry that cut energy use and pollution. AQON PURE's salt-free softening is a bootstrapped hardware climate play.

In this episode, we cover:

• Maximilian Wilk (CEO & co-founder, AQON PURE)
• A salt-free water softener that prevents limescale
• Lower energy bills and reduced chloride pollution
• The environmental case against salt-based softeners
• Bootstrapping a cleantech hardware company

Related deep-tech episodes: Climate-Tech SaaS vs Greenwashing · Traceless: Plastic Replacement.

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Dashboards don't decide — agents do. Jennifer Grün, Senior Specialist for Generative AI & ML at AWS, explores how agentic AI is rewriting the rules of SaaS: instead of static dashboards and brittle automations, software is moving toward agents that reason, plan, and act.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Agentic architectures — reasoning, planning, tool use — are the applied-AI frontier reshaping software. From an AWS GenAI specialist, the engineering reality behind the hype.

In this episode, we cover:

• Jennifer Grün (AWS, GenAI & ML) on agentic AI in SaaS
• Why dashboards don't decide and agents do
• Agents that reason, plan, and act
• Replacing brittle automations with agentic systems
• How SaaS architecture changes for agents

Related deep-tech episodes: Deep Tech AI & DACH Funding · Quantum's Software Bottleneck — Haiqu.

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POC is dead; Proof of Value is the new standard for AI startups. AWS's Jennifer Grün reveals the AI monetization strategy that separates demos from businesses — including why hybrid pricing (subscriptions plus credits) outperforms per-seat SaaS for AI.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Monetizing AI is a systems-and-economics problem: usage-based pricing and value proof reflect how compute-heavy AI actually costs and scales.

In this episode, we cover:

• Jennifer Grün (AWS) on AI monetization strategy
• Why Proof of Value replaces Proof of Concept
• Hybrid pricing (subscription + credits) vs per-seat
• Matching pricing to AI's compute economics
• Turning AI demos into businesses

Related deep-tech episodes: Deep Tech AI & DACH Funding · Quantum Middleware for Enterprise.

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What if the next billion-dollar startup is brewing in Berlin, Munich, or Vienna right now? This episode covers the game-changing deals, deep-tech breakthroughs, and green-innovation stories shaping the DACH startup scene in September 2025 — for founders, VCs, and operators.

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Why this matters for deep tech: A month defined by deep-tech breakthroughs and green innovation — the categories building DACH's next billion-dollar companies.

In this episode, we cover:

• The month's game-changing DACH deals
• Deep-tech breakthroughs across the region
• Green-innovation stories to watch
• Fintech M&A activity
• Signals for founders, VCs, and operators

Related deep-tech episodes: Deep Tech AI & DACH Funding · Europe's Defence-Tech Supercycle.

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A DACH news cut where Berlin's AI funding rockets, fintech giant N26 faces a leadership shakeup, and Europe places a serious bet on hydrogen — the deals and signals shaping the ecosystem.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Hydrogen and AI infrastructure are the deep-tech anchors of the month, sitting alongside the N26 fintech shakeup.

In this episode, we cover:

• Berlin's surge in AI funding
• N26's leadership shakeup (fintech)
• Europe's growing bet on hydrogen
• Where deep-tech capital concentrated
• The DACH signals that matter for founders and investors

Related deep-tech episodes: Climate-Tech SaaS vs Greenwashing · Deep Tech AI & DACH Funding.

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Greenwashing is everywhere — from supermarket shelves to corporate ESG reports. But are eco-claims worth anything without data to back them? Irene Rosique-Conesa, CEO & co-founder, explains how verifiable, data-backed sustainability measurement replaces marketing claims with evidence.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Trustworthy sustainability is a data-and-measurement problem: sensors, methodology, and auditable pipelines. This is the deep-tech infrastructure that makes green claims verifiable.

In this episode, we cover:

• Irene Rosique-Conesa on data-backed sustainability vs greenwashing
• Why eco-claims are worthless without verifiable data
• Turning ESG reporting into auditable evidence
• Measurement methodology as the moat
• Building trust infrastructure for climate claims

Related deep-tech episodes: Climate-Tech SaaS vs Greenwashing · Traceless: Plastic Replacement.

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