EWOR Been There, Done That Podcast

In this episode, Elias Malm, Co-founder and CEO of Epiminds, talks with Daniel Dippold about the craziest Friday of his life: a customer called to say he'd just been fired. That phone call was the moment Elias knew he’d found PMF. Getting to that moment started with closing the first 15 customers using an animated Figma file and crafting an offer so good it felt stupid to say no to. Following a $6...

In this episode, Allegro Sprute, co-founder and CEO of Brio, talks with Petter Made about what it actually takes to lead an AI company as a non-technical CEO, including the moments when the co-founder wants to go in a different direction and every mentor in the room is suggesting something different. Allegro started selling before the product existed, which led to early customers and enormous pres...

In this episode, Wael Abdelmalek, CEO and Co-Founder of Uthereal, gets brutally honest about what it takes to build a technical moat in the AI era – when anyone can ship a competing product over a weekend. Together with Paul Müller, Wael discusses why vibe coding without understanding the architecture can kill a product at scale, selling before the UX existed, spending $12,000 on sales emails with...

In this episode, Ravi Teja Chadalavada, Co-founder and CEO of Sapios, talks with Petter Made about his newly-signed $5M US government contract most VCs told him would never happen. Ravi is a PhD robotics researcher who built the world's first fully automated driving test system – autonomous car technology squeezed into a phone with no examiner required. Getting there meant cold-calling 100+ drivin...

In this episode, Bjol Frenkenberger, co-founder and CEO of Sybilion, talks with Daniel Dippold about the structural decision at the heart of his $4.2M seed raise: whether to wait for EU Inc or flip to Delaware C Corp.  Bjol entered university at 12 and finished with an Oxford PhD on uncertainty and decision-making. He’s now building Sybilion – forecasting infrastructure that turns over a trillion...

In this episode, Jan Löwer, Co-founder and CEO of deeplify, talks with Daniel Dippold about the unfiltered reality of pre-seed fundraising that never makes it to LinkedIn. Jan is one of the rare founders who successfully transitioned a service business into a product company – but the fundraise that followed was anything but smooth. 2 months after joining EWOR, his CTO became seriously ill and lef...

In this episode, Josiah Senu, Co-founder and CEO of Zuba, shares the difficult decisions he had to make to go from being a Harvard law prodigy to building the payment infrastructure Africa’s never had. Together with Petter Made, Josiah discusses receiving hate mail after turning down a magic circle barristers' chambers in the UK, a failed business partnership that cost serious time and capital, th...

In this episode, Alfons Huber, Co-founder and CEO of REPS, talks with Daniel Dippold about what it actually took to protect his invention when the people he trusted most tried to steal it. Alfons invented energy harvesting technology 200x more efficient than anything on the market, with 90,000 trucks already driving over it at the Port of Hamburg. Getting there meant walking away from his degree a...

In this episode, Julian Rothenbuchner, Co-founder and CEO of Tumbleweed, talks with Daniel Dippold about the real cost of rejection before you break through. Julian is a rocket scientist building the infrastructure that could make manufacturing in space as accessible as mailing a package, with a SpaceX partnership to show for it. He opens up about the mental breakdown that followed SpaceX's initia...