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As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Nihal Tharoor, Founder & CEO at Scriptic about their recent investment news, interactive phone-first media, leveraging GenAI tools and a move towards user generated content.
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Nihal Tharoor
12.07.2023
The news has been filled with big tech layoff news for the past 18 months or so. Dire report after dire report has announced yet another headcount cull, and the numbers are truly startling: Amazon has let 27,000 people go, Meta 21,000, Google has shed 12,000 jobs, and Microsoft has cut 10,000 jobs.
11.07.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Mike Stevens, cofounder and CEO of Kuroa about confronting the climate crisis in the textile industry, bringing more sustainable products into the home and how a network can help you face the million little challenges faced by founders.
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Mike Stevens
11.07.2023
With #QVCS, Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today, we speak to Karl Lokko, Cyril Lutterodt and Yvonne Nagawa of Black Seed.
10.07.2023
The promise of blockchain technology to disrupt businesses and the way we connect and trade has captivated the attention of people all around the world. Technology develops, expanding the range of potential applications.
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Andy Braddell
08.07.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Felix Laumann, CEO of NeuralSpace about AI, developing in the Middle East and providing advanced text and voice AI technologies in over 100 languages.
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Felix Laumann
08.07.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Meeri Savolainen, cofounder and CEO of INZMO on pivoting the business, the burden of rental deposits and the importance of creating a seamless and user-friendly customer experience.
06.07.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Greg Gormley and Mark Stringer, cofounders of SKOOT about peer to peer social mobility, Net Zero targets, and the importance of visualising tangible impacts.
04.07.2023
With #QVCS, Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we interview Gareth Jefferies, Partner at RTP Global.
03.07.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Ron Gidron, Chief Executive Officer and cofounder of xtype, about software development, accelerating digital transformation, and their ambition to become the de facto standard product for platform engineering in ServiceNow.
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Ron Gidron
01.07.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Dawid Robert Kotur, Founder & CEO of Curvestone about the potential of generative AI, LLMs and the need for founders to surround themselves with other founders.
29.06.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Melanie Vala, Chief Commercial Officer at Deko about checkout finance, improving customers’ ecommerce journeys and keeping the startup mindset after a decade in the industry.
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Melanie Vala
28.06.2023
Max Lunn spoke to Martin Bjercke and David Rootwelt-Norberg, the two founders of Centaurify about how they aim to address the low revenues, lack of context and limited connection between fans and artists in the age of music streaming.
27.06.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Polly McMaster, founder of The Fold about building a network to create a brand and campaigning platform dedicated to empowering women.
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Polly McMaster
27.06.2023
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