Dr. Anjali Raja Beharelle is the CSO (Chief Science Officer) and one of the founders of collabree.com. Collabree is a Swiss eHealth / digital adherence start-up focusing on improving therapy compliance of chronically ill patients by applying behavioural economics principles. Collabree is helping patients to make lasting behavioral changes and stick to their therapy regimen by combining human engagement with scalable algorithms and using the most relevant gamification factors: fun, friends and feedback.

Anjali is responsible for the clinical track and integrating insights from behavioral economics and neuroscience into the app. Before founding Collabree, Anjali worked as a neuroscientist. Her research focused on the neuro(chemical) and behavioral components of decision making between short-term and long-term rewards (e.g. should I have a candy bar or some broccoli) and how to optimize these decisions.

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Links:

• Collabree Website
• Collabree Blog
• Collabree LinkedIn
• Oliver Sacks, M.D., Author, Neurologist | Official Website | On The Move, Hallucinations, Musicophilia, Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
• Universitätsspital Basel
• Behavioral economics
• Present bias
• Loss aversion
• Endowment effect
• Common neural value representations of hedonic and utilitarian products in the ventral striatum: An fMRI study | Scientific Reports
• Habit Formation
• The Habit Loop
• Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Professor Wendy Wood > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Hugo Amsellem [@HugoAmsellem] is a thought leader covering the world of the creator economy and writes the blog “Arm the Creators”. The Creator Economy enables an entire generation to bypass traditional gatekeepers for the 1st time in history. Anyone can learn anything online, build something new and distribute it all over the world—without asking anyone's permission

In 2013 he jumped the fence and joined The Family as part of the founding team. The Family is one of the world’s leading fellowship programs for founders. Twice a year, The Family selects 50 startups from around the world. In exchange for 5% equity, they provide everything you need to build a scalable business: advice, mindset, network & a world-class investor demo day.With the Family he backed hundreds of founders across Europe.

Previously, he co-founded oocto, a decentralized music label to help artists bypass the record labels and keep ownership of their projects.

Hugo recently joined Jellysmack, a “creator accelerator” to educate & empower the next generation of ambitious creators.

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Links:

• Jellysmack - The Global Creator Company
• The Family - Building Ambitious Startups | — The Family is a fellowship of founders.

Patrick Gobonya is one of the co-founders of Ovation eSports. Ovation was founded in Zurich / Switzerland in February 2020, and is the first sustainable eSports organization. Ovation is "a lit, young & dynamic pioneer which combines professionalism and fun in one team. A network platform of champs and eSports enthusiasts."

Ovation accompanies and develops athletes on their journey to become leading eSports players. The company is committed to provide their athletes with support to protect their mental and physical well-being and offers an environment to master a successful future following a career in eSports. Ovation eSports AG is a Swiss team consisting of players from the DACH region and with partnerships all over Europe. Ovation is one of the fastest growing and up-and-coming esports teams in Europe and currently competes in the games of Fortnite and Valorant.

In March 2021, Ovation announced that it has raised a seed round investment from billionaire twin brothers Maurice and Kyril Louis-Dreyfus.

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• Ovation eSports — A lit, young & dynamic pioneer which combines professionalism and fun in one team. A network platform of champs and eSports enthusiasts
• Fortnite | Free-to-Play Cross-Platform Game
• Valorant
• Clan (video games)
• Twitch
• Riot Games
• League of Legends
• Rome II - Total War
• FIFA Video Games - Official EA Site
• Call of Duty
• Real Madrid CF
• Ovation eSports (@ovationesports) - Instagram
• Ovation eSports (@OvationEsports) - Twitter
• Ovation - Twitch
• Patrick Gobonya

Arman Anatürk [@ArmanAnaturk] is the founder and CEO of FoodHack. FoodHack is a community-driven platform that inspires, highlights and connects food entrepreneurs and innovators. With FoodHack Arman is is building the 21st century media / events company for the foodtech industry. The platform's offering includes a weekly food & food tech newsletter, ambassador run meet-ups, an annual FoodHack Summit, as well as a newly launched Food Discovery board (think of the “Product Hunt of Food”) where innovative food tech startups are featured.

Arman’s goal with FoodHack is to make it easier for impact driven food founders to access the resources, network and knowledge they need to successfully launch and grow their Food (tech) business. The FoodHack newsletter has over 100+ editions sent and over 5k+ happy readers.

Arman also hosts "The Secret Sauce" Podcast, where he provides insights from food industry leaders.

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• FoodHack | Global Community for Food Innovators
• Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)
• OneRoof Agency
• Agrinorm - Machine learning for quality predictions of fruits
• Daria Reisch
• FoodHack Meetups
• Webflow
• Zapier | The easiest way to automate your work
• Eventbrite - Discover Great Events or Create Your Own & Sell Tickets
• Canva: Collaborate & Create Amazing Graphic Design for Free
• Zoom: Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing
• ActiveCampaign - #1 Customer Experience Automation Platform
• Google Docs: Free Online Documents for Personal Use
• Slack: Where work happens
• Hunter.io - Find email addresses in seconds
• Substack: Email Newsletter Platform
• Ghost: Turn your audience into a business
• Bexio: Business Software for Small Businesses and Startups
• Eat Just to sell lab-grown meat in Singapore after gaining ‘world first’ regulatory approval
• Josh Tetrick (@joshtetrick)
• Baze | Personalized Supplements That Work. We'll Prove It.
• Mixfit: Your personal nutrition journey starts now! – Mixfit Inc.
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight
• Gregory Logan

Job van der Voort (@Jobvo) is the CEO and one of the founders of Remote.com.

Remote makes it possible to employ anyone, anywhere in the world. Their mission is to simplify how companies employ the best talent globally and to help remote organizations do their best work. They offer services such as international payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance for businesses big and small - so that they can hire anyone in the world - while outsourcing all the admin & legal work to Remote. Remote's vision is to become the "stripe for (remote) work".

Remote is also among the fastest growing startups globally and is backed by some of the best venture capital investors in the world, such as Index Ventures, Sequoia, General Catalyst, Two Sigma, and many more very accomplished angel investors. Remote recently raised their Series A financing round of $35M.

Before founding Remote, Job worked as neuroscientist, and he was one of the first engineers that joined GitLab. In his role as VP of product, Job was responsible for GitLab's product development and he helped grow the company from 5 to 450+ employees. Today GitLab is one of the largest distributed companies in the world.

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• GitLab - DevOps Platform Delivered as a Single Application
• Remote - Global HR Solutions for Distributed Teams
• Hacker News
• Google Docs: Free Online Documents for Personal Use
• Aeron - Office Chairs - Herman Miller
• Key Light Air | elgato
• Remote Jobs - Find awesome remote engineering, designer, product and marketing jobs |
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
• Figma: the collaborative interface design tool.
• Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
• Bitcoin - Open source P2P money

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄

This episode is going to be a small experiment. In this Christmas special, I'm introducing you to 5 of my personal and my podcast guests favorite business & startup books. Hence, I give you a crowd-sourced reading list from some of Europe's top up-and-coming entrepreneurs and VCs. I'm convinced that these books can help you to bring your business / startup to the next level, or to get motivated to "take the leap" yourself! It's also the perfect activity to read on a cold wintery day at home.

Since it’s Christmas, I'm also doing a little giveaway and will send to some lucky winner a book of his or her choice from this list. All you got to do is to review the Leap Takers Podcast on Apple Podcast (or your favorite podcast app), give it a 5 star rating, and send me proof (screenshot / link) to remo.kyburz1[at]gmail.com.

This is just a little thank you & Christmas gift from me to the listeners of the Leap Takers Podcast. 🎁

I'm wishing you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2021!

Remo

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Alina Bassi (@alinabassi1) is the founder and CEO of Kleiderly. Originally from London, she founded Kleiderly in 2019 in Berlin with the goal of solving the problem of fashion industry waste. She has developed a patent-pending technology to recycle waste clothing into a new and sustainable material, diverting clothing waste away from landfills and incinerators. Her mission is to lower the carbon footprint of fashion and eliminate tons of CO2 emissions.

Alina is a Google for Startups Female Founder alumna and a member of the Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2020.

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• Kleiderly Website — Sustainable Plastic Made from Textile Waste
• Kleiderly (@kleiderlyberlin) - Instagram
• Kleiderly (@kleiderlyberlin) - Twitter
• bio-bean | The world’s largest recycler of coffee grounds.
• High-Tech SeedLab - Accelerator
• The Berlin Founders Fund from Silicon Allee
• Silicon Allee
• Lafayette Plug and Play - Retail Business Accelerator in Paris
• Factory Berlin - The Community of Innovators and Creators
• Entrepreneur First - Find a co-founder at the world's leading talent investor
• Antler - Global early-stage VC enabling and investing in the world's most exceptional people
• The Lean Startup | The Movement That Is Transforming How New Products Are Built And Launched
• Asana - Manage your team’s work, projects, & tasks online
• Trello
• Biofuel - Wikipedia

Tobias Gunzenhauser (@TobGunzenhauser) is the CEO and one of the three co-founders of yamo.

yamo is Europe's first digital native vertical brand that produces fresh organic baby and children food. The company launched in 2017 in Switzerland with their first product of baby purees. In the meantime, yamo is also sold in "Coop", one of Switzerland's largest retailers.

All of yamo’s products are 100% organic, natural and free from additives. They developed every recipe together with dozens of helpful moms, dads, their little ones, nutritionists and pediatricians.

In the summer of 2020, yamo raised a €10M Series A.

You will hear the fascinating origin story of yamo, tips around production & manufacturing, how to find a good production partner, advice on online stores, and much more!

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Links:

• yamo Website
• yamo (@yamobaby) / Twitter
• Direct to Consumers (D2C) Business Model
• wemakeit – Crowdfunding für kreative Projekte
• Indiegogo - Crowdfund Innovations & Support Entrepreneurs
• Kickstarter - Crowdfunding
• WooCommerce - Sell Online With The eCommerce Platform for WordPress
• Shopify - Ecommerce Software | All-in-one Commerce Solution for your Business
• Magento - eCommerce Platform
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight

Heidi Lindvall (@HeidiLindvall) is one of the founders and a general partner at Pale Blue Dot. Pale Blue Dot is a seed stage ClimateTech VC investing in reducing and reversing the effects of climate change and preparing for a new world. They invest tickets of €200k - €2M, in pre-seed and seed-stage companies based in Europe and US.

Heidi Lindvall previously co-founded Storygami, an online video company that increases viewers engagement & helped monetize content. She also founded CODOC, an award winning video production company. She has a background in Media and Human Rights and has studied for two degrees in the field in London.

In this episode you hear how Heidi made her way from being a documentary filmmaker into the world of Venture Capital (VC). We also discuss her learnings from being an entrepreneur and what areas in ClimateTech she is most excited about to help save the planet. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did.

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Special Guest: Heidi Lindvall.

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Links:

• Pale Blue Dot
• Pale Blue Dot (@palebluedotvc) / Twitter
• Heidi Lindvall (@HeidiLindvall) / Twitter
• Overstory – Creating Planet Intelligence
• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Forgive Me Mother - CODOC Documentary on Vimeo
• My Climate Journey
• The Weekly Climate - Michael Reibel Boesen
• The Breeze - Tommy Leep
• Screw Business As Usual: Turning Capitalism into a Force for Good - Richard Branson
• 500 Startups
• Open Data Institute
• Fast Track Malmo
• Carbon accounting
• CODOC
• Storygami

Anne-Laure Le Cunff (@anthilemoon) is the Founder of Ness Labs, an award-winning productivity & learning community and venture studio building products that focus on mindful productivity, wellness, creativity, and culture. She is an ex-Googler, MSc of Applied Neuroscience candidate at King's College, member of the Society for Neuroscience, and certified Mental Health First Aider accredited by the Royal Society for Public Health.

Her work has been featured in WIRED, Forbes, FT, Rolling Stone, and more. Every week, she sends a newsletter to thousands of mindful makers with practical content at the intersection of neuroscience and entrepreneurship.

She is half-French, half-Algerian. Anne-Laure was born in Paris, sold French wine in New York, studied in Tokyo, worked at Google in San Francisco, and started her company Ness Labs in London.

In this episode you will hear the origin story of Ness Labs, we discuss fascinating topics such as the concept of time anxiety, and you hear Anne-Laure’s advice for anyone that wants to start & grow a content community. I found this episode incredibly interesting and I hope you enjoy it as well.

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Special Guest: Anne-Laure Le Cunff.

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Links:

• Ness Labs - Make the most of your mind
• Time anxiety: is it too late? - Ness Labs
• From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out - Ness Labs
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan
• Generation effect
• Membership Community - Ness Labs
• Hacker News
• Indie Hackers: Work Together to Build Profitable Online Businesses
• Slack
• Telegram Messenger
• King's College London