Mission First - Entrepreneurs for future

Welcome to Mission First, the masterclass to learn from successful entrepreneurs changing the world for the better!   ⚡️⚡️⚡️DONT MISS the best of season 1 ⚡️⚡️⚡️ = 10 episodes of less than 10 minutes to download and listen to here: https://gtimpact.com/best-advice-for-green-entrepreneurs/ TODAY'S EPISODE Being an entrepreneur in the energy industry is a tough challenge. The market is very br...

Signup for all the best of episode series here:  https://gtimpact.com/best-advice-for-green-entrepreneurs/ Mission First best-off advice #1 - Leadership: The key ROI that most of CEO's forget + how to learn about climate change Lubomila Jordanova is the CEO of Plan A , a B2B Saas which helps companies to be more sustainable thanks to data science and actionable plans. Before pivoting to B2B, Plan...

Today my guest is Mattias Josephson, a serial entrepreneur and the cofounder of Epishine . Mattias is a wonderful and very humble human being, but he has set himself and his company a very ambitious mission: he wants to scale the manufacture of his solar cells to make it one of the largest energy systems in the world. A few years ago, he founded Dreampark, a leading software provider who was sold...

Today my guest is Pierre-Yves Paslier , cofounder and co-CEO of Notpla , a company that makes packaging disappear . They have created a cutting edge packaging material directly made from the ocean, from seaweed. It is biodegradable in six weeks and it can actually be eaten. This episode is perfect for you if you would like to learn: how to go from an idea to a cutting-edge sustainable product thro...

Today my guest is Christoph Berger, the founder and CEO of Vilisto and Planet Sustainability.  It is a perfect episode if you want to raise seed funding and to learn:   how to build the right team and hire the right employees how to optimize your recruiting process how to build a B2B greentech company with hardware and digital products With Vilisto, Christoph has developed a digital heat managemen...

If you want hands-on advice on greentech and renewable entrepreneurship , on relentlessness and product development iterations , on how to build a business and a product for a specific market like schools , on how to grow your company with strategic partnerships , this episode is for you! Today I have the chance to talk to Robert Schrimpff.  Robert is a serial entrepreneur. He has been the founder...

This episode’s guest is Maren Hjorth , one of the co-founders of Katapult Ocean and the founder of Fynd Ocean Ventures .  Both companies invest and support startups with a positive impact on the ocean : Katapult Ocean invests in early-stage startups (pre-seed & seed funding), while Fynd Ocean Ventures focuses on startups in their growth phase.  We talked extensively about Katapult Ocean, which...

In this episode I had the chance to talk to Benny Mandos, founder and CEO of Got Bag .  Benny’s company is not just another backpack brand. They have for mission to clean up the oceans and they get their hands dirty: with their team and a network of 1500 fishermen they collect and recycle plastics from the ocean in Indonesia and turn these pieces into various sustainable fashion products .  Starte...

In this episode, I welcome Vaitea Cowan, one of the co-founders of Enapter . Vaitea’s mission is to bring hydrogen and clean energy to the islands . For that purpose, her company has developed an electrolyzer that produces green hydrogen.  This high-tech product can among others replace diesel generators. It uses renewable energy to produce hydrogen that can then be used for various applications l...

In today’s episode, I had the chance to welcome Maayke-Aimée Damen. Maayke has received several prestigious awards for her pioneer work on the circular economy. With her company Excess Materials Exchange, she has for mission to eliminate waste from the dictionary. They help companies turn their waste into valuable resources. Together we talked about how they developed and tuned their products acco...

In this episode, our guest is Franziska Schmid , the CEO and co-founder of Junge Tüftler and the Tüftel Akademie . With her companies, Franzi and her team have taught technology through events, workshops, and webinars to more than 25 000 kids and teenagers in Germany, who have learned that way how to become young tinkerers and inventors. Franzi is a friend of mine, and I was very excited to learn...

In this episode discover how Lubomila Jordanova left her corporate job in fintech to start PlanA as a solopreneur. Lubomila is a very engaged and inspiring leader who has won a lot of awards in the last two years for her work with Plan A and for her impact as an entrepreneur. We broke down how she turned a wake-up call in 2016 on a beach in Morocco into a company that generated close to 1’000’000...

Captain Paul Watson was one of the co-founders of Greenpeace. In 1977 he left that organization to create Sea Shepherd. For more than 40 years, Sea Shepherd has been defending the oceans, saving the lives of thousands of whales, and fighting against illegal fishing. Today I am incredibly honored to have the chance to learn more about his fantastic story and experience building the biggest non-gove...

Today, our guest is Jeff Kirschner, a fantastic storyteller, and an inspiring entrepreneur. With his startup Litterati, he created a community of 170’000 people who are on a mission to clean the planet .  During this episode you will learn: How he started and financed Litterati as a solopreneur in parallel to his consulting career. How his TED residency , his TED talk , and their Kickstarter campa...

Welcome to Mission First, the podcast to learn from successful entrepreneurs who are building a sustainable future for our planet and its people!  In this episode I explain you why I created Mission First, what you are going to learn, and I introduce you to our first four guests. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.