SPEAK LIKE A CEO

"Our best marketing employee is Elon Musk!“, says Caro Gabor with a twinkle in her eyes. Musk’s goal of fixing the „incredibly inefficient“ car insurance market while making a lot of money from it has gotten the attention of the car industry.

For car buyers, getting insurance is the least favourite part of the purchase. This is about to change. Caro’s aim is to make the insurance experience delightful, especially for that moment when you need it. To do that requires solving some really hard problems, something she relishes.

Since April 2021 Caro has been CEO of Movinx GmbH, a joint venture of Mercedes-Benz and Swiss Re. The global startup has a unique positioning, delivering mobility insurance through a digital business model that takes full advantage of tech and data to deliver a great customer experience. The aim is for it to become invisible.

As a communicator, Caro is not holding back. As an experienced entrepreneur, she believes that CEOs need to trust their teams with the difficult stories for them to perform at their best. Before joining Movinx, she was CEO and co-founder of Joonko, Managing Director at finleap and the CEO of autohaus24 and TopTarif Internet.

This episode is packed with insights into including:

🦖 How to bridge the dinosaur and the green field mindsets when working with large companies

🗣 What truthful feedback can do for you and why Caro enjoys disagreement

📈 Why performance marketing is dead and what the next new big thing is

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Speak Like A CEO is back after the summer break.

"You don’t have to be 65 to live your dreams,“ believes our guest. Her business is all about giving people this opportunity much sooner in life, by helping them to build wealth.

Christine Kiefer is the co-founder of RIDE Capital. RIDE is a private bank for the digital age that helps customers structure their portfolio in an optimal and tax-efficient way. Customers already trust RIDE with close to a quarter of a billion Euros in assets - a massive amount for a four year old company. This was made possible through great communication and messaging.

Christine Kiefer also founded Fintech Ladies, a network for women involved in digitalisation and innovation in finance. This year she also joined Angelinvest as a venture partner.

In episode #155, Christine shares:

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Say no to borders and bureaucracy and yes to openness and simplicity! Our guest today believes that international mobility is beneficial for all and is doing her part to make the process a positive experience for businesses and employees.

Having experienced the expat life herself, polyglot Hanna Marie Asmussen, co-founder and CEO of Localyze, knows exactly how complex and bureaucratic it can be to move abroad for a new job. In the absence of a state-of-the-art digital solution, she developed and founded Localyze in 2018 with co-founders Lisa Dahlke and Franziska Löw. Localyze simplifies the management of international teams by providing a comprehensive platform that automates processes and contains all relevant information and documents in one place.

Half a year after founding Localyze, the company was accepted into Y Combinator - the mother of all accelerators. The company has grown ever since and now aims to expand from Europe into North America and to reach a total of 50 markets by 2025. In episode #154, Hannah not only tells us her personal backstory: living, studying and working as an expat and founding with friends but also talks about:

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Dare to rethink how money should work. This is what our guest today is passionate about. And that future of finance starts with a new story about money.

Katharina Gehra is the co-founder & CEO of Immutable Insight and manages one of the leading crypto hedge funds in Germany.

Coming from the traditional world of finance, she is now an integral part of the crypto industry. Katharina has been invited to speak to the German parliament on blockchain technology and has been named Top 40 under 40 three times in a row. She also co-hosts one of the most prestigious blockchain podcasts, Block52.

In episode #153, Katharina and Oliver take us on a deep dive into

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Today's guest is one of the key players in the German and European FinTech scene. As co-founder and CEO of company builder finleap, Ramin Niroumand and his team were instrumental in building 15 companies that are now worth €3bn+, including Element, Penta, Clark and Solarisbank. Several of these have already achieved unicorn status.

Never one to rest on his laurels, Ramin recently founded his own venture capital fund together with Michael Hock called embedded/capital. Its aim is to become the no. 1 investor for Europe’s freshest, most innovative and trailblazing #FinTechs. The well-capitalised fund has already made 7 investments, and is hungry for more.

Ramin’s main success ingredient is to always bring joy to the table. With hundreds of pitch meetings under his belt, his first advice to founders is to smile.

To find out why a smile can be worth millions, tune in to episode #152, in which Ramin shares his insights and know-how about:

Why their brand is more important than most founders think

What’s behind the brand name embedded/capital and why this is exactly the right name for his fund

How to build trust with consumers as a fledging FinTech

How to communicate well with financial regulators, especially after the Wirecard scandal

The difference between a crisis and times of crisis, and what it means for communications

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Selling is hard. To make the sales conversation better our guest today has built Demodesk, a revolutionary screen sharing and video conferencing platform. It acts like an AI-driven sales consultant that assists you by analysing data and giving suggestions to improve the conversation with the customer. You can compare this with the real-time assistance in cars today, says Veronika Riederle, the CEO of Demodesk.

Veronika founded Demodesk in 2017 with Alex Popp to revolutionise the sales process. They were accepted into Y Combinator and has since raised multiple rounds of funding.

In this episode Veronika shares

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How do you know what kind of business has huge potential?

It’s easy to connect the dots looking back. It’s way harder is to recognise trends in society before they become obvious, and use that insight to build a business that develops a new market.

That’s exactly what Jannes Fischer did. He is the CEO and founder of Vermietet.de, the market leader in digital solutions for private landlords. Helping his grandparents administrating their flats in Hanover, he realised that the younger landlords of the future would not accept paper or Excel sheets like previous generations to look after their most valuable investments. So he built a better a solution and in the process a fast-growing venture that was acquired by Scout24 Group in 2021.

A born entrepreneur, if there is such a thing, Jannes shares in our 150th episode:

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„If you want people to buy in to who you are, then you have to have a really, really great story behind it.“ Freda Katunda Olsen

Born in Kinshasa, raised in the USA and currently living in Germany, our guest today is on a mission to create lasting change globally. Freda Katunda Olsen cofounded LEAP in 2020, an ed-tech startup that provides healthcare education across Africa. In partnership with UNICEF, the London School of Economics, international universities and African organisations, among others, the platform provides better, faster and cheaper healthcare training to more people and reduce brain drain. Freda recently won the Social Hero Award from Global Digital Women. She is passionate about leadership and storytelling, and has lots to share about how impact-driven ventures can pitch to investors.

Tune in to #149: Pitching for Impact where we discuss:

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What is the foundation for everything you do in business?

It’s communications. But developing communications skills is hard and time-consuming, unless ….

.. you find a way to blitzscale them. We know you are in a rush, so how can you speed this up? The key is to break down communications into a number micro-skills and learn the techniques that help you make progress fast. That way every founder can become a master communicator, and turn their company into a message machine that gets results.

In this episode of Speak like a CEO, Oliver Aust highlights three micro-skills that have the potential to catapult anyone into the Top 10% of communicators in business - for more impact, better leadership and higher returns.

Tune in to #148 "Blitzscaling your Communications Skills“ where we discuss:

🗞 Why fact-telling is obsolete

❤️‍🔥 How to speak and present with impact

🎸 How you can lead difficult conversations to positive outcomes

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