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While pursuing her Master's degree, Jacqueline van den Ende founded her first company, De Kleine Consultant, a non-profit, student-run strategic consultancy. After graduation, she joined the private equity company HAL Investments and stayed there for 3 years until she was approached by Rocket internet in 2013 to start as a real estate investment platform, Lamudi, in the Philippines. She managed to create the leading online real estate website in the region, with over 90,00 properties, 1,500 brokers and developers. Later she started working as the CEO of TrueMoney - a fintech scale-up with a mission to enable access to affordable financial services and there she learned a lot of important lessons on how to be a good leader. Since 2019 she is back in the Netherlands and working as a partner at Peak Capital, a European venture capital fund, that is focused on fast-growing early-stage marketplace, data, and SaaS companies.  

After years of working in healthcare as a physiotherapist, spiritual training and working as a digital entrepreneur Peter Vermeiren discovered and integrated the power of breath for health and happiness. He founded an institute called Breath of Freedom where he offers mediation and breathwork sessions. One type is holotropic breathwork, a New Age practice, developed by the psychiatrist Stanislaf Grof in the 1970s to enter a non-ordinary state of consciousness, comparable to the use of psychedelics.   

Beirem Ben Barrah is the co-founder of Neurofied, a Brain & Behavior Academy for professionals that aims to bridge the gap between business and science. Together with his co-founder Dr. Evert Semeijn and a team of psychologists Beirem finds the most insightful theories and turns them into simple and practical frameworks, tools and processes that anyone can use.

David Arnoux is a growth expert and serial entrepreneur. He founded his first company, Maya Trading, at the age of twenty in China, where he focused on the import and export of small commodities. In the search for more creativity, he started a fashion brand, Blue Lemon Paris in 2006 and Twodoo, a tool to organize communication. Since 2015 he is focused on Growth Tribe, a digital training company that empowers people to rapidly gain digital skills of the future. At this point, they trained over 10.000 people across 900 companies and designed 995+ experiments across seven international campuses.

Johanna was working many years in corporate, Fortune 100 companies in the US, until her live took a big turn trough the experience of an autoimmune disease, alopecia (hair loss). As a result of health struggles she started gathering knowledge about everything connected to health and wellness. After some time she finally managed to heal herself and started Alopecia Angel in order to help others to reverse the disease. Moreover she founded CORE Events, a company that hosts events that embody mindfulness and wellness.   

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Boris is a successful serial entrepreneur, who started his first company, V3 Redirect Services, in 1997. Two years later he sold the company to Furtunecity for 21 million gulden (10 million Euro) which he mainly got payed in stock. As a result of the dot-com crash his stock became worthless and he lost all the money. Over the next few years he founded companies like HubHop.com and TwitterCounter.com. In 2006, Boris and his co-founder Patrick de Laive were looking for a tech event to showcase their new start-up. When they couldn’t find one that checked all the boxes they decided to host their own. As they were organizing things, they soon realized they needed somewhere to promote the conference, and that’s how The Next Web was launched. The Next Web (TNW) is with 7,2 million monthly visits one of the world’s largest online publications that delivers an international perspective on the latest news about Internet technology, business and culture. Part of it is an annual series of conferences, focused on new technology and start-up companies in Europe.  

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Samuel Taselaar started his entrepreneurial career in the nightlife and festival scene at the age of 20. In 2013 he founded the nomads festival with 3 friends, which has the goal to form a tribe of like-minded spirits, and to take them twice a year on a Nomadic trip.   

Chris Hayes, is the founder of Bot-Hive, the world’s first digital platform and marketplace, built for robotics 🤖. Bot-Hive makes robotics accessible to small and medium-sized businesses across all industries, by connecting robotic, AI and autonomous system manufacturers with SMEs digitally.

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[2:23] Mental hurdles Chris had to overcome

[4:55] Activities that helped to overcome fear 

[6:35] Helpful resources 

[8:06] How to overcome self-doubts 

[11:34] How to gain knowledge about a new industry

[12:23] How Chris got his first customer on board 

[14:55] How to start a company while working full-time 

[18:15] Drivers that motivated Chris 

[20:34] How Chris found his own purpose

[23:36] Chris talks about his experience of failure and lessons learned

[29:27] How Chris deals with failure

[33:22] What to do if you are doubting about your idea 

[37:07] Insight that helped Chris grow personally

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✔️Richard Branson – Losing My Virginity

✔️Alastair Campbell – Football, Feminism & Everything in Between

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Joseph Anderson started his first company, Chisel in 2011, which initially was as a social network platform and pivoted to a content creation tool that could be used to put quotes on images. After working on it for 3 years, he decided to stop and focus on something else. Then in 2017 the idea for MightyScout was born, a tool for digital marketers that finds and tracks brand-relevant Instagram influencers.

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In pursuit of happiness Tegan moved from Silicon Valley to Copenhagen and started working for different Start-ups there. Tegan’s believe that we are a part of the first generation of people to realize, that we are having an impact on the planet, and perhaps one of the last that can do anything about it, drove him to start Lokalist in 2017. Lokalist is a platform that aims to raise awareness of just how unsustainable the smartphone production industry actually is, and find solutions to reduce the number of phones being produced, use the ones we have already made to their full potential, and recycle those that are no longer useful.

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