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Send us Fan Mail Rebecca Finlay is CEO of Partnership on AI, the nonprofit that has spent a decade putting technology companies, civil society groups, academics and policymakers around one table. Founded in 2016, six years before ChatGPT, PAI now counts about 150 partners.  Rebecca joins Philipp Willigmann and Steve Schmith to explain why the people building AI were already asking for outside voic...

Send us Fan Mail This is part two of our conversation with Marten Rauschenberg, Managing Director of the Asia Berlin Forum, who leads the organization's annual Summit connecting Berlin's startup ecosystem to Asia's. If you haven't heard part one, start there for his path from paramedic to founder of five companies in Shanghai, and what AsiaBerlin does today. In this half, Marte...

Send us Fan Mail Marten Rauschenberg is Managing Director of the Asia Berlin Forum, the Berlin Senate-backed project connecting the city's startup ecosystem to Asia's, and leads the annual AsiaBerlin Summit each November. Before that, he built and sold five companies in Shanghai, after starting out as a paramedic and a fashion photographer who talked his way into Chinese advertising agen...

Send us Fan Mail Rupprecht Podszun holds the chair in German and European competition law at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, sits on Germany's Monopolies Commission, and spent two years inside the Bundeskartellamt, the federal competition authority. He joins Philipp and Steve to make the case that two decades of antitrust enforcement never actually curbed Big Tech's power, and that...

Send us Fan Mail Yariv Adan spent 17 years at Google leading Google Assistant, Google Lens, and the commercialization of Cloud AI's conversational and generative AI products before becoming a venture capitalist. He joins Philipp and Steve to argue that the old AI moat, being fast and owning proprietary code, is gone, and that proprietary data is now the only defensibility left. He explains wh...

Send us Fan Mail Leif Lindner is CEO of IFA Management GmbH, the organization behind IFA Berlin, the world's oldest consumer electronics show. After 25 years at Sony and Samsung, Leif took over IFA in 2023 and rebuilt it from the ground up, renaming it from Internationale Funkausstellung to Innovation For All.  Leif joins Philipp and Steve to break down IFA Berlin 2026, where 240,000 visitors...

Send us Fan Mail Naiana Miranda is Principal and Co-Founder of MSH Partners and Chair of the Amazon Bioeconomy Chamber, the first international chamber built to connect capital with entrepreneurs across the Amazon basin.  Naiana joins Philipp and Steve to trace her path from a childhood in the Amazon and a family of Brazilian entrepreneurs to a severe bout of mold poisoning that triggered a near-d...

Send us Fan Mail Outwardly, Nick Jonsson had everything that success is supposed to look like: two decades as a senior executive across Asia, an Ironman athlete, a family, the villa and the driver. Alone, he was turning to alcohol, and eventually drugs, to cope.  It is an issue many corporate leaders carry in silence, and it is the one Nick, now an executive coach, spends his days trying to change...

Send us Fan Mail Dawn Lim is Executive Director of the DesignSingapore Council, Singapore's national agency for design, and spent over a decade before that at the Economic Development Board working with Fortune 500 companies on innovation and investment.  In this conversation, Dawn joins Philipp and Steve to unpack what it means to treat design not as aesthetics but as a strategic capability...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Tan Sian Wee has built companies in Silicon Valley, lived and worked in Germany, and now sits inside Singapore's innovation engine at the National University of Singapore, where he manages a S$150 million venture fund.  In this conversation with Philipp and Steve, Sian lays out why Germany's welfare state now discourages full-time work, why Europe allocates just 0.01...

Send us Fan Mail For decades, much of the world viewed Africa through the lens of aid, extraction, or geopolitical risk. Taj Eldridge argues that perspective is rapidly becoming obsolete.  Drawing on experience spanning venture capital, private equity, climate investing, and now living and working in Nairobi, Taj explains why Africa is emerging as one of the world's most important innovation...

Send us Fan Mail Stuart Russell co-wrote Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach , the textbook that trained a generation of AI researchers, and founded UC Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI. He joins Philipp and Steve on Inside CVC straight from the floor of SuperReturn in Berlin, where AI was the only topic anyone wanted to talk about. Stuart takes apart the "but China"...

Send us Fan Mail Lynda Mansson spent close to thirty years in the nonprofit sector, most recently as Director General of the MAVA Foundation, a large family philanthropic foundation. She started her career about as far from philanthropy as it gets: as a stockbroker. Today she's a leadership coach for mission driven leaders, working from a framework of six practices that separate those who sus...

Send us Fan Mail Boardrooms in Transition is a five-part special series from Inside CVC by U-Path on how boards make decisions when the information is incomplete and the stakes are real. Start with Episode 1 and listen in order.   All five episodes are live now.  Support the show Catch up on all episodes of Inside CVC at www.u-path.com/podcast.

Send us Fan Mail  This is episode 1 of 5 in Boardrooms in Transition, a special series from Inside CVC by U-Path. Start here and listen in order.  In the opening chapter of Boardrooms in Transition , IMD professor and globally recognized governance expert Didier Cossin examines why so many boards fail—not because they lack information, but because they fail to act on what they already know. Drawin...

Send us Fan Mail This is episode 2 of 5 in Boardrooms in Transition , a special series from Inside CVC by U-Path. We recommend starting with Episode 1 and listening in order. This episode opens with a short recap. If you are listening to the full series in one sitting, use the chapter marker to jump straight to the conversation.  In the second chapter of Boardrooms in Transition , former Deloitte...

Send us Fan Mail This is episode 3 of 5 in Boardrooms in Transition , a special series from Inside CVC by U-Path. We recommend starting with Episode 1 and listening in order. This episode opens with a short recap. If you are listening to the full series in one sitting, use the chapter marker to jump straight to the conversation.  In the third chapter of Boardrooms in Transition , seasoned public c...

Send us Fan Mail This is episode 4 of 5 in Boardrooms in Transition , a special series from Inside CVC by U-Path. We recommend starting with Episode 1 and listening in order. This episode opens with a short recap. If you are listening to the full series in one sitting, use the chapter marker to jump straight to the conversation.  In Part Four of Boardrooms in Transition , former Deloitte Global CE...

Send us Fan Mail Hayley van Loon is the CEO of Crime Stoppers International and spent the first eight years of her career in counterterrorism operations in Australia. She joins Inside CVC to explain why criminal networks are not a parallel economy. They run directly through yours. In this conversation, Hayley walks Steve and Philipp through what Crime Stoppers calls the Illegal Empire: a $4 trilli...

Send us Fan Mail This is episode 5 of 5 in Boardrooms in Transition , a special series from Inside CVC by U-Path. We recommend starting with Episode 1 and listening in order. This episode opens with a short recap. If you are listening to the full series in one sitting, use the chapter marker to jump straight to the conversation.  In the final chapter of Boardrooms in Transition , veteran public co...

Send us Fan Mail David Betts spent two decades at Deloitte building a healthcare strategy practice, ultimately leading a public health business serving 20 states with 400-plus people. Then, at the peak of his career, he was diagnosed with ALS. His response wasn't to step back. It was to build something. In this conversation, David walks Steve and Philipp through how a non-developer used AI as...

Send us Fan Mail In this Inside CVC Encore, we revisit a conversation that feels even more relevant today. Pete Horsley, founder of Remarkable, challenges one of the biggest blind spots in corporate innovation: why disability and accessibility are still treated as compliance or charity initiatives rather than engines of growth, talent, and competitive advantage. Pete shares why designing for disab...

Send us Fan Mail In this Inside CVC Encore, we revisit our conversation with Salesforce Chief Futurist Peter Schwartz and You.com founder and CEO Richard Socher. We explore what leadership looks like in a world where technological change is no longer sequential, but simultaneous and accelerating. Drawing on their experience shaping AI strategy at Salesforce years before the current wave, they unpa...

Send us Fan Mail In this Inside CVC Encore episode, Deborah Elms joins Steve and Philipp for a timely conversation on the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Trump administration’s use of IEEPA tariffs—and why the ruling did not end tariff uncertainty. Deborah explains what happened in the first 72 hours after the decision, why companies faced immediate confusion over tariff rates, exemptions, and...

Send us Fan Mail In this Inside CVC Encore from Season 1, Episode 1, we revisit his conversation with J. Carl Ganter, founder and managing director of Circle of Blue and a veteran storyteller whose work spans National Geographic, network TV news, and NPR. The episode lands at a moment when desalination plants and water infrastructure across the Middle East are making headlines as targets in the Ir...