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Hosted by Luis Druschke · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 15 episodes
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The greatest opportunities are often hidden behind closed doors. This podcast opens them up. After seven years in a different industry, last year I developed a strange obsession with startups and venture capital. I consumed every podcast, video, and book I could find.And while entrepreneurship does not need another podcast, it desperately needs transparency, accessibility, and conversations that go beyond funding rounds and exits. Venture Lab tells the personal stories of Europe's most exceptional investors and most innovative founders.
Luis Druschke hosts Venture Lab with Luis, a business show with 15 episodes published.
Xavier grew up moving countries five times. That instability drilled into him one obsession: control your own destiny. That mission carried him from law school in Sydney, through three unicorns, Uber, Deliveroo, and Turo
Will grew up in a family of shipbuilders, naturalists, and war heroes, a family legacy that, drilled into him one simple principle: have a go, do something that helps people. That mission carried him from a poetry degree
Zeynep grew up in Turkey in an entrepreneurial family and from an early age absorbed their persistence, bias for action, and an understanding of what it really takes to build a business. That observation became her missi
Bastian Larsen went from co-leading product strategy for a $10B hedge fund at BlackRock to building his own venture capital firm with zero VC experience. Learn how he: - Raised $25M from 65 LPs without a network. - Pitch
Tim Chong, founder and CEO of Yonder, reveals how he went from a Single room apartment in London during COVID lockdown to building one of Europe's fastest-growing consumer fintechs competing against billion-dollar incumb
Filip Dames, co-founder of Zalando and Managing Partner at Cherry Ventures (€500M fund), reveals how he went from opera singer to failed founder to scaling Europe's largest fashion marketplace to backing deep tech startu
Mo Chahin, founder of Twain, reveals how he went from dropping out of university to raising millions from Sequoia before building a product and how he closed a full seed round in just 24 hours. We cover his journey from
Christian Nagel, co-founder of Earlybird Venture Capital, unpacks 28 years of European VC: how to build top-performing funds, pick founders when product isn’t enough, and why real VC “education” costs $50M. We cover Earl
Ondrej Bartos, co-founder of Credo Ventures, shares what most VCs won’t say out loud: venture capital is broken. In this episode, he reveals why the industry lost its edge, how he built a fund against all odds in Eastern
Ophelia Brown, founder of Blossom Capital and former Index Ventures investor, reveals how she’s reshaping European venture capital with conviction-led investing and elite founder support. In this episode, she unpacks why
Sam Tidswell-Norrish, former private equity operator, shares how he’s rebuilding venture capital with value creation at the core. In this episode, he breaks down the future of VC, why the best founders are obsessed, and
Co-Created founder Oliver Yonchev, formerly co-founder of Flight Story with Steven Bartlett and ex-Managing Director at Social Chain, shares how AI is disrupting venture capital, why creative founders will thrive, and th
Salomon Aiach is an investor and founder who’s reshaping what it means to break into venture capital. After working at Goldman Sachs and leading startup partnerships at Facebook, Salomon co-founded Origins Fund alongside
Saul Klein is a husband, father, founder, operator, and one of the most influential investors in European tech. After co-founding LoveFilm (acquired by Amazon), Klein established himself as a cornerstone of the European
Erik Huberman is an entrepreneur, investor, and bestselling author who bootstrapped his marketing company, Hawke Media, to over $150M. In this conversation, he gives you the secrets and the exact framework behind his suc
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Venture Lab with Luis is hosted by Luis Druschke. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 15 episodes.
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