Bits & Pretzels Podcast
Every week Bits & Pretzels Editor-in-Chief Britta Weddeling (@bweddeling) invites the most important voices from the global founders and VC network to her podcast to discuss their routes from founding or financing a startup to the peak of international success.
Guest include world renowned Silicon Valley representatives such as former Head of Retail at Apple, Angela Ahrendts, Shazam founder Chris Barton, Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox, Hollywood actor Jessica Alba and the leading voices of the European founder ecosystem including the CEOs and co-founders of Klarna, N26, Celonis, Flixbus and more.
Did you ever struggle with how to take your idea to the international markets? How to raise capital? And you never want to miss a groundbreaking idea again? Well, that's exactly what we're going to help you with on our new show!
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 52
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
B&P #53: "You have to stick to what you believe in the core"
Oliver Holle, Co-founder & Managing Partner at Speedinvest, shares his key takeaways from the past for founders and investors for a successful 2021
This week’s guest is Oliver Holle, Co-founder and M…
B&P #52: The race for quantum computing
Jan Goetz, CEO of IQM, about how he wants go beyond competitors like IBM and Google and make Europe the hotspot for the technology
This week’s podcast guest and his team are moving quantum computing …
B&P #51: Did Zoom grow too fast?
Harry Moseley, Zoom’s Chief Information Officer, about how the video communication platform dealt with a sudden growth overnight due to Covid-19, as well as the related challenges
If you had to name …
B&P #50: Kick your year off with Ironman world champion Jan Frodeno!
The exceptional athlete about how to turn a challenge into an opportunity and why focus beats uncertainties all the time
While the whole world is still grappling with the effects of the current pande…
B&P #48: Inside Slack’s growth story
CEO Stewart Butterfield, who just sold his communication platform to Salesforce for $27.7 billion, on dealing with setbacks & fighting incumbents
This week on the Bits & Pretzels Podcast we welcome a…
B&P #47: Building a brand is a marathon, not a sprint
AUDI AG board member for Sales & Marketing Hildegard Wortmann about the Dos and Don’ts of crisis communication and how she’s turning around the brand of her company
This week’s podcast guest is one o…
B&P #46: Arianna Huffington about self care, productivity & how to become a better leader
The media mogul explains how crucial downtime is for long-term success & shares first steps towards becoming a better leader
This week on the show is Arianna Huffington, the co-founder of the Huffing…
B&P #45: Lean Startup Guru Eric Ries about the power of impact entrepreneurship
Operating with a long-term philosophy is necessary for sustained growth explains the founder of Long-Term-Stock-Exchange
This week on the podcast Bits & Pretzels Editor-in-Chief Britta Weddeling welc…
B&P #44: The time to build your startup is right now!
Roxanne Varza, Director at Station F, one of the largest global accelerators hosting 1000 startups on how founders can benefit from a crisis and use it to their advantage
Our podcast guest this week …
B&P #43: Meet Index Ventures' Masters of Scale
Sarah Cannon and Martin Mignot, partners at Index Ventures share why European founders are ditching their “US or nothing” mentality
This week’s podcast has a very international setup with two guests …
B&P #42: Anne Boden: “Keep knocking on those doors!”
The CEO & founder of Starling Bank on how to build a challenger bank from scratch to conquer the Fintech world
At a point when most people make plans for their retirement, our podcast guest this week…
B&P #41: Dirk Nowitzki: “Never be satisfied & always try to improve!”
The former NBA player on how to maintain motivation and inner strength despite failures and what startups he’s looking for now as an investor
Our podcast guest this week is an overall legend and a tr…
B&P #40: Eric Schmidt: “Hire for intelligence, not for experience!”
The long-term Google CEO offers a rare glimpse into his playbook about how to build a culture of excellence to how to systematically harnessing world-changing ideas in your company
This week’s podcas…
B&P #39: mymuesli co-founder: What is product-market fit, really?
Max Wittrock on finding the right idea to build a startup & to kick off a business
In this episode Britta Weddeling, editor-in-chief at Bits & Pretzels, welcomes Max Wittrock! He is the co-founder of…
B&P #38: From co-founding $2.7 billion VC firm Atomico to raising a new seed fund
Mattias Ljungman about his new VC firm Moonfire Ventures & why Europe is on the verge of a tech investment breakthrough
Would you like to send your pitch deck to the personal email address of Mattias…
B&P #37 Verena Pausder: A wake-up call for entrepreneurs!
The serial entrepreneur, Young Global Leader & book author to founders: It’s your responsibility to get politically involved to create a better world!
It’s in the genes of entrepreneurs to want to ch…
B&P #36 Wirecard, Sexism & Old-Boys-Networks: “Female investors would have handled things differently"
Board Member of the German Startups Association & co-founder of Auxxo, Gesa Miczaika shares exclusive insights of how to network & pitch for success
You are a female founder looking for new cash? And…
B&P #35: DAX newcomer & Delivery Hero CEO Niklas Östberg on internationalization, scaling & fighting Amazon
€18 billion market cap Delivery Hero co-founder about running a global logistics business during the pandemic
Famously joining the index of Germany's 30 largest companies by market capitalization & v…
B&P #34: Inside 3 German tech stars masterplan for a new €170 million European deep tech fund
Florian Leibert, founder of Mesosphere & Twitter and Airbnb alumnus, about what he's looking for in a startup as an investor. Meet Florian at #bits20
€170 million for European deep tech startups: Ser…
B&P #33: Twilio CEO: Launch a million dollar company in just 6 weeks – here's how!
Jeff Lawson, co-founder of $8.5 billion dollar cloud communication firm about customer centricity, Jeff Bezos & the power of developers
In this episode, Bits & Pretzels’ Editor-in-Chief Britta Weddel…