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SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast

On the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast, Jonathan Pfaffenrot creates deep dives with some of the brightest minds on nerdy topics around entrepreneurship while geeking out on digital health, biohacking and the never ending quest of human self-optimization and balance. Sample conversations include inventors, billionaires, founders, athletes and researchers.

Jeroen Tas - Identifying Windows of Opportunity | Differences in Funding Landscapes | Healthtech

54 mins; May 07, 2023

Alex Louisy - Distribution vs. Product | Founder Optimism Dilemma | VCs Unit Economics |

48 mins; April 30, 2023

Phil Libin - Identifying Problems | Empathy for Product | Opinions vs Customer Feedback

34 mins; March 12, 2023

Matt Brown - Balancing Product & Distribution | Platform Dependencies | Vertical Know-How as a Superpower

68 hours 14 mins; March 05, 2023

Lucy Jung - Hardware Products | Fundraising for MedTech | Wearable Product Innovatiom

39 mins; February 12, 2023

2023 Outlook - Generative AI | Changing Funding Environments | Upcoming Guests

13 mins; February 01, 2023

Dr. BJ Fogg - Behavior Change Psychology | Human Performance | Bad Habits

42 mins; December 04, 2022

Florian Brand - Psychedelics Market | ATAI Funding Model | Compound Therapeutics

56 mins; November 27, 2022

Tero-Pekka Alastalo - Spin-Offs to Exit | Heart Health | US Expansion

52 mins; November 20, 2022

Jason Moore - Biometric Data | Bootstrapping HealthTech | SDKs as Product

50 mins; November 13, 2022

Corbin Petro - Hybrid Care for Addiction | VC & Healthcare | Scaling Digital Health

38 mins; October 23, 2022

Matteo Franceschetti - Sleep Tech | Software vs. Hardware | Start-Up Hiring

47 mins; October 09, 2022

Andrew Herr - Training Elite Units | Human Performance Optimization | Personalized Health Products

31 mins; October 02, 2022

Mette Dhyrberg - Long Covid | Auto-Immune Diseases | Nutrition

58 mins; August 28, 2022

Teemu Suna - Blood Testing | Moving from Biotech to Digital Health | Market Strategies

73 hours 22 mins; August 21, 2022

Stefan van der Fluit - Non-Invasive Wearables | Biomarkers from Sweat | Athletic Performance

45 mins; August 07, 2022

Joseph C. Kvedar - Hybrid Care | Digital Phenotyping | Challenges for Health Ventures

40 mins; July 31, 2022

Rachel Soper Sanders - Health Testing Kits | NFTs in Health & Fitness | Athlete Investors

42 mins; July 24, 2022

David Mehlman - Optimizing Athletes | VC Downturn | Health Monitoring Ecosystem

60 hours 46 mins; July 17, 2022

Phil Southerland - Pro Cycling | Continuous Glucose Monitoring | Abbott Partnership

60 hours 39 mins; July 10, 2022

Gil Blander - Venture Building for Longevity | InsideTracker | Scientific Foundations in Venture Building

44 mins; June 26, 2022

Ari Tulla - Personalization for Health Products | Life Expectancy Decline | Nutrition Ventures

65 hours 34 mins; June 13, 2022

Quin Sandler - Sensor Insoles | Personalized Coaching | Gait Analysis

48 mins; June 05, 2022

Joshua Bonhotal - From NBA to Start-Up | High Performance | $110 Million for building Future

101 hours 19 mins; May 20, 2022

Dima Gazda - Future of Prosthetics | Electronic Implants | Ukranian Tech Talent

53 mins; May 14, 2022

Joe William Foster - Founder of Reebok

52 mins; May 01, 2022

Roy Cohen - Predicting Depression | Digital Biomarkers for Mental Health | Passive Data Collection

50 mins; April 24, 2022

Florian Hübner - From 0 to 400 employees | Sleep and High Performance | Long-term Focus as a Founder

62 hours 32 mins; April 16, 2022

Marco Altini - Heart Rate Variability (HRV) | Working with Athletes | Bootstrapping a Digital Health Venture

46 mins; April 10, 2022

Tim Fitzpatrick - Kidney Health | On Deck | Funding in Digital Health

58 mins; March 11, 2022

Petteri Lahtela - Co-Founder of Oura Health

100 hours 32 mins; February 27, 2022

Julian Jagtenberg - Improving Sleep with Robots | Helping 100 Million People | Digital Health Devices

58 mins; February 04, 2022

Sophie Chung - Improving Healthcare | Two-Sided Platform in Digital Health | Being a Mother and Founder

39 mins; January 26, 2022

Ignas Survila - Wearable Start-Ups | Continuous Glucose Monitoring | Silicon Valley VCs screening Eastern Europe

90 hours 30 mins; January 23, 2022

Robin P. G. Tech - Research | B2B Search Engine | CSR Data

28 mins; January 19, 2022

Allon Bloch - Concentrated Bets | WIX, Vroom and KHealth | Intelligence Layer for Medicine

35 mins; January 16, 2022

InsideSCR - US AirForce, Academics and Founders | 100 Unicorns for Europe | The Rise of CEE Start-Ups

105 hours 55 mins; January 14, 2022

Marlon Braumann - Managing a €125 Million Fund | Alternative Proteins | Construction Tech | Saving Endangered Species in Africa

52 mins; January 12, 2022

Marek Sacha - Quick Commerce | Building Unicorns | Disrupting Incumbents | Next Big Ventures

49 mins; January 08, 2022

Eugene Borukhovich - Health Start-Ups | Big Tech in Health | Pharma & Digital Health

39 mins; January 04, 2022

Andreas Schumacher - Semiconductors Run The World | Technology & Geopolitics | Opportunities in Quantum

63 hours 43 mins; December 06, 2021

Mike Granoff - Founder & Managing Partner at Maniv Mobility

47 mins; November 17, 2021

Ernesto Schmitt - Running a $400 Million Investment Firm | CPG Challenger Brands | Serial Entrepreneurship

47 mins; November 07, 2021

Beena Ammanath - Corporate AI Competences | AI & Ethics | Deloitte’s AI Institute

41 mins; October 28, 2021

Jeanne Shen - AI Reseach in Pathology at Stanford University

32 mins; October 16, 2021

Naftali Harris - Getting Hired by Max Levchin | Synthetic Fraud | Great Co-Founders

30 mins; October 08, 2021

Daniel Grubbs - Pepsi’s Venture Fund | D2C Brand Building | Food Start-Ups

35 mins; September 20, 2021

Paolo Pirjanian - Working at NASA | Robotics | Emotional Intelligent Companions

46 mins; September 01, 2021

Jacob LaPorte - Novartis and Start-Ups | Scaling Innovation in Corporations

47 mins; August 08, 2021

Daniele Capasso - VP Digital Transformation at Volvo Group

61 hours 44 mins; June 26, 2021

Jeffrey Kaditz - The Story of Building Affirm | BioTech | Solving Big Problems

60 hours 6 mins; June 05, 2021

Oren Etzioni - CEO at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)

46 mins; May 17, 2021

Michael Snyder - Director at Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University

38 mins; May 02, 2021

Christian Weiss - Germany’s €100 Million Health Tech Fund | Academia and Start-Ups

35 mins; April 16, 2021

Matthias Heutger - Deep Tech at DHL | Logistics Complexity | E-Commerce Growth

51 mins; April 04, 2021

Dirk Hoke - CEO at Airbus DS

43 mins; March 26, 2021

Jennifer "JJ" Snow - CTO at US AirForce/AFWERX

56 mins; March 05, 2021

Frank Salzgeber - Space Ventures | €100 Million Contracts | Global Space Race

35 mins; February 26, 2021

Jim Adler - Founding Managing Director at Toyota AI Ventures

54 mins; February 19, 2021

Xihong Lin - Professor for Biostatistics at Harvard University

50 mins; February 09, 2021

Christian Guttmann - AI in the Nordics | EU’s Approach Towards Tech | AI Maturity

48 mins; February 02, 2021

Henning Trill - VP Innovation Strategy at Bayer AG

27 mins; January 27, 2021

Hans Uszkoreit - Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Giance Technologies

53 mins; January 15, 2021

Feiyu Xu - AI at SAP | China’s Technology Culture | Building AI Competences

47 mins; January 12, 2021

Markus Sontheimer - Transforming Logistics | Industrial IoT | Sensors and System Complexity

40 mins; January 08, 2021

Joerg Hellwig - Transforming a €7 Billion Corporate | Building Up a Leading B2B Marketplace

51 mins; January 05, 2021

Tobias Fausch - CIO at BayWa

46 mins; December 19, 2020

Ralf Belusa - Managing Director at Hapag Lloyd

39 mins; December 04, 2020

Susanna Schneeberger - How leadership changes in a fast moving digital world

46 mins; December 02, 2020

Bernd Preuschoff - CDO at uvex group

51 mins; November 23, 2020

Daniel Theobald - Founder & CEO at Vecna Robotics

60 hours 7 mins; November 06, 2020

Philipp Blome - CEO at METRO Markets

39 mins; October 23, 2020

Michaela Mahlberg - Professor & Chair in Corpus Linguistics at University of Birmingham

54 mins; October 10, 2020

Ralf Pichler - CEO at DETECON

56 mins; October 04, 2020

Wolfram Gstrein - Managing Director at VTU Engineering Deutschland GmbH

35 mins; September 26, 2020

Carsten Linz - Author of "Radical Business Model Transformation"

43 mins; September 18, 2020

David Shrier - Managing Director at Visionary Future LLC

69 hours 11 mins; September 07, 2020

Stefano Gurciullo - Partner & CTO at Redstone

61 hours 3 mins; August 28, 2020

Jan Becker - CEO & Co-Founder at Apex.AI

94 hours 22 mins; August 06, 2020

Alan Jacobson - Chief Data Officer at Alteryx

55 mins; July 31, 2020

Bart Voorn - Director A.I & Robotics at Ahold Delhaize

42 mins; July 24, 2020

Bernd Heinrichs - CDO Mobility Solutions at Bosch

57 mins; July 19, 2020

André Loesekrug-Pietri - Chairman at J.E.D.I

107 hours 3 mins; July 03, 2020

Christian Baur - CEO at Swisslog

40 mins; June 19, 2020

Dirk Ramhorst - CDO at WACKER

42 mins; June 12, 2020

Timo Möller - Head of McKinsey Center of Future Mobility

72 hours 31 mins; June 07, 2020

Rasmus Rothe: Building and Scaling A.I Ventures

46 mins; May 28, 2020

Building up the biggest Research as a Service platform with Mathias Wengeler - Founder at Atheneum Partners

40 mins; May 15, 2020

The Future of Car Ownership with Nico Polleti

31 mins; May 01, 2020

Carlo van de Weijer - Managing Director A.I Systems Institute at TUe

50 mins; April 26, 2020

Marcel "Otto" Yon - ex CEO Cyber Innovation Hub at German Ministry of Defense

62 hours 28 mins; April 09, 2020

Addie van Rooij - VP People Operation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

57 mins; March 26, 2020

Payal Arora - Author of "Next Billion Users"

59 mins; March 15, 2020

Bruce Daisley - Vice President at Twitter EMEA

58 mins; March 05, 2020

Heiko Schilling - VP Engineering at TomTom

52 mins; February 27, 2020

Marietje Schaake - Human Centered AI at Stanford University

61 hours 40 mins; February 20, 2020

Daniel Gebler - CTO at Picnic

41 mins; February 14, 2020

#insideSCR - Introducing our new Co-Host

24 mins; February 08, 2020

Jens-Philipp Klein - Partner at Atlantic Labs

37 mins; February 03, 2020

Thomas Andrae - Managing Partner Linden Capital GmbH

64 hours 34 mins; January 25, 2020

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