Feed Your Brain Podcast

Everyone knows finding product market fit. But what about the Language? There's a concept which was presented by OpenView about Language-Market Fit - we found it inspiring and shared it with you through this way here.

Furthermore, we talk about first insights into Web3 and our viewpoint on it.

Language Market Fit Model by OpenView

Beginner Guide to Crypto:

https://creatoreconomy.so/p/curious-beginner-guide-to-crypto

https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-1-starting-with-bankless

Book recommendation: Continuous Discovery by Teresa Torres

Interview with Tim Ferris and Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant

The nest guest is on board - Michael Bervell. MIchael is a Ghanaian-American angel-investor, entrepreneur, and author. He's the author of "Unlocking Unicorns", a book about the stories and habits of leading entrepreneurs in Asia, Africa and the Middle East (e.g. he personally interviewed Jack Ma for the book). 

In 2007, he co-founded the non-profit "Hugs for" where he funraised over 500,000 $ in materials and monetary donations and impacted over 300,000 youths around the world. Because of his work, Bervell was awarded the National Caring Award in 2015 (alongside Pope Francis, Dikembe Mutombo, and 7 others).

He became the youngest President of the Harvard Club of Seattle and a former member of the Harvard Alumni Association after he studied in Harvard himself. 

His various efforts led to a diverse set of awards, such as the GE-Lloyd Trotter Scholar (2018), World Internet Conference Wuzhen Scholar (2017), Walter C. Klein Scholar (2017), United Health Foundation Scholar (2016), Deutsche Bank Rise Into Success Scholar (2016), Blacks at Microsoft Scholar (2016) and many more. 

We talked about this new book "Unlocking Unicorns", African's tech ecosystem, angel investing and many more topics. 

Michael's Website

Unlocking Unicorns Book

Source: Michael's Website

We had the chance to interview another Founder again, namely the Founder and current CTO of Passbase, Mathias Klenk. Passbase's goal is to "empower the world with a digital identity system that puts you, the individual, first".

Mathias and we talked about the role of a human identitity, the importance of it in today's world, winning the first investors and the differences between studying at Stanford vs. studying in a German university.

Find out more about Passbase here: https://passbase.com/

And connect with Mathias on Linkedin here.

In this episode, we talked about asynchronous working with our teams and which tools we use, learnings from hiring people and books that we've recently read. 

Feel free to connect via Linkedin (leave a message) 

Max

Mike

Welcome back to the Feed Your Brain Podcast. 

Max and his co-host Mike interviewed another guest this time. Eli Bressert, Co-Founder and CEO of Origin. Origin provides you with the most personalized luxury trips based on who you are and what you want to experience next. Eli was a mentor at Singularity University, Head of Siri Platform Science & Insights at Apple, Head of Data Science at Convoy and worked in Data Engineering and Analytics. 

He studied Mathematics and Astronomy and did his PhD in Astronomy. 

Together with Eli, we talked about

Connect with Eli on all channels, find his Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elibressert/ - and check out his new company Origin here: https://www.origin.me/

Hi friends! 

For this episode we have chosen a little different format. For one reason. Mike just raised a 6.3 million seed round with his startup Blair. 

Since we have a lot of founders as listeners, we thought it would be exciting to take a look behind the curtain and understand how Mike and his team made it happen. 

So Max took the chance to ask him all the important questions about the round! 

Feel free to let us know on the social media channels if you enjoyed it. You can find us everywhere as @MaxElster and @MikeMahlkow. 

Talk soon!

Hey listeners, 

Mike and I talk about the value of finding your personal mission statement and how it can help you with staying focused on the things that actually drive value and happiness for you personally - especially when building companies and products. 

We'd be glad to get your feedback and hear about strategies and methodologies of you finding your personal mission statement. Let us know via DMs or on Linkedin/Twitter how you found your vision/purpose! 

Looking forward to hearing from you. 

Max and Mike

Nikolaus Volk is the Founder and CEO of Kyte, a San-Francisco based Startup that delivers rental cars to your home. They help everyone to access rental cars with the simplicity of Uber.

A few facts about Nik:

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I haven't been here for while, however, I thought of publishing this episode to keep you up to date on what's happening.

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His new book Ultralearning