Robin Wauters sat down with @Sebastien Deletaille on the Syndicate One podcast
"I like the idea that with few people, you can build something that scales and impacts millions."

📍 Great teams on the wrong market go nowhere. Sebastien watched sharper engineers than him get outpaced by someone on a better wave. Market choice, he argues, is what separates the top league from the rest.

🔄 On picking investors: skip the success stories. Talk to the founders who returned one and a half times. They are the ones who will tell you what a fund is really like when things get hard.

🇧🇪 On ecosystems: cities work because proximity creates serendipity. What Ghent built, Brussels can replicate, but it needs participants, not just leaders.

Robin Wauters sat down with Laurent Hublet on the Syndicate One podcast: "I have 1,200 days to deliver impact. My focus is making the best out of every one of them."

📍 Laurent Hublet got a call on a Friday the 13th and had an hour to decide whether to become Brussels Minister for Economy, Employment and Digital Economy. He called his wife from a client call and said yes.

🔄 Six weeks later, his team had compressed a three-month budget process into five weeks, hired staff from scratch, and launched a government that Brussels had been waiting 18 months for.

🇧🇪 Brussels is one of the five largest power centers in the world, which makes what happens here on cyber, AI and democratic governance matter well beyond the city limits.

Serge Morel, co-founder and CTO at Powernaut, is reinventing how energy systems work from Wintercircus (where else?). He talks us through:
🚀 Getting top talents to join and work toward the bigger purpose
🌎 How remote hiring helps bring diversity into a (local) bubble
📌 How growth also comes from product breadth,
... and more!

Kimia Namadchi, co-founder and CEO of CurveCatch, joined Robin Wauters on our podcast and unpacked:

📌 How CurveCatch identified and now tackles a massively overlooked problem: the fact that around 80% of bra-wearers may be wearing the wrong size, and why the solution lies in data and better guidance.

☺️ How CurveCatch evolved from supporting their family-run brick-and-mortar bra shops into a (very) fast-growing startup, backed by Y Combinator.

🚨 The bright sides of being a female founder, building a company with your life partner, and challenging the odds 💪

How Donna is reinventing the CRM experience for field sales reps globally with AI at the core, out of Belgium 🚀.

Vincent Declercq, co-founder and CEO at Dalton, sits down with Robin Wauters and shares what is like to pivot to an entirely new startup with the same co-founder and bring AI to one of the first product of the internet, the website 🚀. 

Out of Ghent’s Wintercircus, Jurimesh is quietly reinventing legal due diligence for legal teams far beyond Belgium. Jorrit Willaert shares their trajectory with Robin Wauters here. 

Syndicate One is on a mission to elevate the 🇧🇪 tech ecosystem. Our very own Robin Wauters tells you why, and how, we do it 🚀.

Constantin Claes, co-founder at FirstMovers, sits down with Robin Wauters to tell us more about why early operators matter in building startups, and how to inspire young talents to choose startups over more traditional career paths 💪.

Listen to Thor Gutierrez, co-founder and CEO at Sirona Technologies, recounting how he left Silicon Valley and Tesla to maximize marginal impact - i.e. solve climate change by building machines that remove CO2 from the air, in Belgium.