Oliver Holle, Co-founder & Managing Partner at Speedinvest, shares his key takeaways from the past for founders and investors for a successful 2021

Jan Goetz, CEO of IQM, about how he wants go beyond competitors like IBM and Google and make Europe the hotspot for the technology

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

The exceptional athlete about how to turn a challenge into an opportunity and why focus beats uncertainties all the time

CEO Stewart Butterfield, who just sold his communication platform to Salesforce for $27.7 billion, on dealing with setbacks & fighting incumbents

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

Arianna Huffington about the importance of self care for founders, why she started her second company at the age of 66 & what it takes to be a good leader

Operating with a long-term philosophy is necessary for sustained growth explains the founder of Long-Term-Stock-Exchange

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

Sarah Cannon and Martin Mignot, partners at Index Ventures share why European founders are ditching their “US or nothing” mentality

The CEO & founder of Starling Bank on how to build a challenger bank from scratch to conquer the Fintech world

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

The long-term Google CEO about how to build a culture of excellence to how to systematically harnessing world-changing ideas in your company

Mymuesli co-founder Max Wittrock talks about finding the right idea to build a startup and to kick off a business

Atomico co-founder Mattias Ljungman about his new VC firm Moonfire Ventures & why Europe is on the verge of a tech investment breakthrough

Serial entrepreneur & book author Verena Pausder about why founders should get politically & socially involved to create a better world

Investor Gesa Miczaika, co-founder of Auxxo & Board Member of the German Startup Association, about why startups have to change now

€19 billion market cap firm co-founder Niklas Östberg shares his view on internationalization & scaling. Meet him at our Bits & Pretzels Networking Week

Twitter & Airbnb alumnus Florian Leibert about how he set up a new fund with former Rocket executives Alexander Kudlich & Ludwig Ensthaler

The co-founder of $8.5 billion dollar cloud firm Twilio about customer centricity, Jeff Bezos & the power of developers

Fintech pioneer Taavet Hinrikus about Corona, how he has built a $5 billion Fintech unicorn & what rules have guided him since

Earlybird co-founder Hendrik Brandis on deep tech innovation & why Bavaria is the place to be for space startups

Cloud computer pioneer Aaron Levie about Trump, the future of work & how to beat a competitor with agility

How to succeed? Get more sleep! A conversation with the co-founder of the Huffington Post  

NY Trend Forecaster & Data Analyst Amy Webb, who advices Fortune 100 companies, shares insights for founders

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Europe’s #1 Fintech Klarna, about how he turned a local underdog into an international scale-up

Christoph Hornung, co-founder of Rocket Internet & now at VC firm Draper Esprit, about how later stage startups thrive now

Planet CEO Will Marshall about Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos & how he has built the world’s largest fleet of mini-satellites

Angela Ahrendts about the leadership principles that led her from being CEO of Burberry to the top at Apple

One of Europe’s most successful entrepreneurs about why the best founders thrive in uncertainty

Knotel Workplace co-founder Amol Sarva secured $400 million for his firm in NY last year – now he's fighting for the future of his idea

The Bits & Pretzels MC, entrepreneur & coach Dan Ram about why entrepreneurs should pivot their business now

The co-founder of investor firm Clearbanc Michelle Romanow about why her revenue share model sets founders on a better path for profits

For the first time the actor speaks about his life after his career abruptly ended after allegations of sexual misconduct

Matthias Schranner, an FBI-trained negotiator, about how founders get better deals during the Corona crisis

Chris Boos, frontman of the disputed Covid-19 tracking effort PEPP-PET, about the future of the platform

Ijad Madisch, the founder and CEO of ResearchGate, about how he created his 16 million members plus platform  

Saeed Amidi, founder and CEO of international accelerator Plug & Play, about the challenges and chances for founders

The Formula One World Champion about mental training & the CEO of Vodafone Germany on leading a company from home

Judith Gerlach, Bavaria's State Minister of Digital Affairs, about how to attract tech talent and keep later stage startups in Germany

Johannes Reck, the co-founder and CEO of GetYourGuide, about politics and how he has built the Netflix of the travel industry

Valentin Stalf, co-founder of N26, about the next steps for the digital bank and why he pulled the plug in the Uk

The co-founder of German transportation unicorn, Daniel Krauss, about struggles of hyper-expansion

Lars Klingbeil, General Secretary of the Social Democrats, about the upsetting lack of an effective political framework for founders

Margit Wennmachers, operating partner at leading Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz about the DOs & Don'ts for founders  

The co-founder of the news website Rappler, Maria Ressa, disclosed the massive spread of fake-news by the government in the Philippines.

Bastian Nominacher, the co-founder of Celonis, says he can be "a pain in the ass", if he wants to get something done

Cloud storage pioneer Drew Houston had to learn how to get his productivity back and introduced "No-Meeting-Wednesdays"

The Austrian entrepreneur Florian Gschwandtner shares his top 5 To-Dos for founders from having his company been acquired by Adidas.

Star investor Albert Wenger explains why VCs are looking into European startups & how founders can benefit from the hype

Despite her on-screen successes Jessica Alba had to fight to establish herself as a founder, but found a way to succeed.

He sold his music service to Apple for a whooping $400 million dollar. But for his next company Chris Barton follows a different strategy