EWOR Been There, Done That Podcast

EWOR's Been There, Done That Podcast shares what's missing in the startup ecosystem: real stories from people who've actually built. The raw, unfiltered reality of the journey from 0 to a million ARR, what it takes, and what founders actually did to succeed. If you're building, thinking about building, or wondering if you have what it takes – this is for you. Hosted by Daniel Dippold, Founder and CEO of EWOR. The EWOR Fellowship supports the top tech founders globally with up to €500,000 and bespoke mentorship by unicorn founders (Adjust, ProGlove, SumUp).

EWOR Been There, Done That Podcast is a business podcast hosted by EWOR, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

EWOR hosts EWOR Been There, Done That Podcast, a business show with 15 episodes published.

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  Episode #16

  Achieving Profitability from Day Zero: Chris Fox on Scaling Nimbus AI

  Sep 20, 202619 min

  In this episode, Chris Fox, serial entrepreneur and Co-founder and CEO of Nimbus, talks with Daniel Dippold about treating profitability from day zero as a repeatable strategy rather than a milestone. Chris does not start a company until he knows the one channel that will get him to profitability. For Nimbus, that was referrals, and it carried the business to millions in ARR. He explains why the old playbook of raising big and chasing product-market fit for years is gone, why that window has collapsed from 18 months to 30 days, and why he deliberately raised almost nothing when he could have raised far more.

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  Episode #15

  Radical frugality as a superpower, not a sacrifice: Fryderyk Sitnik on building Margin

  Sep 7, 202635 min

  In this episode, Fryderyk Sitnik, Co-founder and CEO of Margin, talks with Daniel Dippold about the radical frugality that kept his company alive long enough to find the idea that worked. Fryderyk and his co-founders spent a year iterating and living on €300/month each in the Polish suburbs. Living on low burn meant that turning down money got easier, not harder. The team later said no to a €2M preempt offer over a single term, and to an acquisition offer, because neither fit the scale of what he wants Margin to become.

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  Episode #13

  Investors tried to steal his company 24 hours before he'd lose everything: Moises Barbera Ramos on how CLARO Surgical survived

  Aug 11, 202645 min

  In this episode, Moises Barbera Ramos, founder of CLARO Surgical, talks with Daniel Dippold about the investors who tried to steal his company. The day before signing, with a government grant on the line and nothing left in his bank account, they sent back a revised term sheet designed to take control from him. He chose to walk away. What saved the company was a 15-minute conversation at a conference in Spain. From there, Moises shares how he mastered the art of storytelling in his investor updates, why he urges founders to think twice before dropping out of university, and why this Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree believes awards matter far less than the one thing that compounds: your progress.

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  Episode #12

  Restarting Momentum After Heartbreak: Emil Kostadinov on the Power of Community

  Jul 26, 202636 min

  In this episode, Emil Kostadinov, Co-founder and CEO of ManaMind, tells Daniel Dippold about the hardest weekend of his founder journey. On Friday, he closed the first big check of his round. On Sunday, he found out about his divorce. It completely decommissioned him, right when his fundraise depended on momentum. What restarted his momentum was community. One EWOR Fellow flew from Zurich to London after Emil told him not to come. Another stayed up with him on the nights he could not sleep. And a single post in the EWOR Community Slack took him from a standstill to 15 hours of investor calls a day. Emil also shares the three things every founder should get coached on and how eight months of co-founder interviews built the partnership ManaMind runs on today.

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  Episode #9

  His product was so good it got someone fired: Elias Malm on Epiminds’ journey to finding PMF after a $6.6M Raise

  Jul 2, 202657 min

  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 $6.6M raise with Lightspeed in just 10 weeks, the hard work began: months of shipping 30+ features only to kill a third of them, learning the hard way never to outsource hiring, and quietly rebuilding almost everything while customers kept using the product.

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