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Market Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders and Domain Experts

Ruben Wolff·21 episodes

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In this show we interview domain experts and business owners to learn about their industry and the challenges they are facing. Our goal is to help entrepreneurs expand their horizon and speed up the process of innovation by learning from others and identifying problems truly worth solving.

Why listen

This show gives you compact founder and operator interviews focused on specific markets, business problems, and traction stories. Each episode is built around a real company, from health tech and logistics to AI, construction, e-commerce, and sustainability, with enough numbers and context to make the business case concrete. It is a good fit for entrepreneurs, product builders, and startup-curious listeners who want market discovery ideas without a long, heavily produced format.

Episodes

27 min
May 15, 2025
Reppo: on a mission to democratize AI development by empowering AI Agents with permissionless access to resources

Raghav (Co-Founder of Reppo) and Ruben discussed the future of open AI ecosystems, tools that open the game to all, agent-first infrastructure and how Reppo landed its first investment.Reppo is permissionless plug play style infrastructure for AI Agents, Developers Physical AI.

24 min
Jan 8, 2025
CyVers - platform that uncovered 2 billions in crypto losses from hacking in 2024

Michael Pearl, VP GTM Strategy CyVers talked about his ways of gaining the trust of potential clients and the unique Twitter strategy of CyVers, that made the company a trusted source of information for media. CyVers - platform that provides Web3 security through real-time detection and prevention of crypto attacks.

41 min
Nov 21, 2024
Holyheld: how paying your rent and food with crypto changed Web3 wallet market

Anton Mozgovoy, Founder of Holyheld, on erasing the line between a bank account and a crypto wallet. How to conquer the crypto wallet market without a sales team and all the important things you need to remember to launch the product successfully. Holyheld - onchain debit card for a non-custodial wallet for crypto enthusiasts, those who get paid in crypto, trade on DEXs, and collect or mint NFTs.

26 min
Oct 10, 2024
The Crypto Coin Show: Ashton Addison on current market trends and opportunities, and how to create top-notch content about the fast-paced crypto industry

In the new episode we talked with Ashton Addison about him growing the audience on different channels and getting the best experts of the industry on his show. Ashton Addison is a crypto pioneer, founder Host of The Crypto Coin Show has been involved in blockchain since the early days of Ethereum in 2013 and is a thought leader in the industry, with over 1200 interviews including John McAfee, Roger Ver, Charles Hoskinson, and more.

28 min
Sep 16, 2024
Hacken Proof: making crypto space safer by helping to uncover security issues using Web3 bug bounty platform

Alex Horlan on the increasing difference between Web2 and Web3 community bounty programs, successful customer acquisition and the importance of a good network in Web3.

29 min
Aug 30, 2024
MC² Finance: changing the market of traditional fund creation with safe, decentralized and regulatory aligned Web3 solution

Christoph Richter on challenges and success in building infrastructure to create regulatory aligned digital asset funds in seconds. Christoph s current project MC² Finance is a decentralized, non-custodial, and multichain copy trading platform that aims to provide an accessible and user-friendly experience for crypto traders.

32 min
Jul 26, 2024
DEGA: creating tools that streamline and accelerate the creation of Web3 games and Metaverse products

Interview with Carlos Rene, Founder and CEO of DEGA -platform for web3 gaming infrastructure and tokenized fundraising that successfully integrated AI in gaming. Carlos told us about his experience growing the product and the importance of creating an engaged audience.

19 min
Feb 18, 2022
Myo - a communication platform for elderly care, connecting 250 care homes with relatives of 20 000 seniors with a huge social impact and 300% growth rate.

Jasper Böckel of Myo on how good intentions paved the way to the SaaS, giving more information for relatives, more comfort and less loneliness for people in care and more control and recognition for the caregivers.

22 min
Feb 11, 2022
Scaled Robotics: Reducing the price of the mistake on the construction site from millions to hundreds of dollars.

Interview with Bharath Sankaran, Co-Founder and CTO, about automating the comparison of reality to the plan, using the information to make better decisions faster and growing a successful AI startup.

23 min
Feb 4, 2022
Growing Lemon.io from $2.7m to $10m by matching vetted engineers with startups, an interview with Aleksandr Volodarsky, company Founder and CTO

How to successfully promote outsourcing business using Twitter and Quora? Listen to learn about the power of bold goals, social capital, consistency, building a community and giving value for free in the IT sector.

31 min
Jan 27, 2022
Managing migraine symptoms by 62.5% with digital therapeutics received over $ 22 million in funding.

Perfood.de co-founder Dominik Burziwoda tells about fighting diseases without drugs and their side effects, better ways of controlling glucose levels and lifestyle improvement that’s reimbursed by insurance companies in Germany

26 min
Jan 21, 2022
Predicting client's health risks from the video footage and evaluating future medical expenses - Fedo.ai grew 300% in two years to $300k revenue in 2021

Arun Mallavarpu, Co-Founder of Fedo.ai explains the concept of a "health credit score" and how combined with insurance underwritings, it allows insurance companies to reduce application turnaround time by 70% for $1 per patient.

19 min
Jan 14, 2022
Helping independent pet stores overcome technology gap, stay in business, and thrive online - an interview with Bernice Giannini from eTailPet

Over 1400 of 8000 US stores now use this all-in-one eCommerce, booking, POS and marketing solution, with a market share grown X3 since launch in 2019.

32 min
Jan 7, 2022
Connecting Yield farmers with Coffee farmers, an interview with Gabriela Chang Valdovinos of Ethichub

Blockchain solution to crowd-fund small farmers makes loans 70% cheaper, increases sales by 20%, and provides 40 to 100% yield for the stackers.

19 min
Dec 17, 2021
Ai Pallete raised 4.4mil in 2021 series A for upping product launch success rate from 17% to 80%

Company CEO Somsubhra GanChoudhuri on real-time consumer insights for CPG brands, AI helping to create the next best-selling product, starting company in Singapore and much more.

22 min
Dec 10, 2021
Zegami end-to-end imaging AI platform enables researchers to manage large data sets, interview with Founder and CEO Roger Noble.

The amount of data is rising exponentially, so is the need for explainable AI in life sciences. Zegami has implemented advanced image analysis that unlocks the value of visual information and accelerates machine learning algorithms.

24 min
Dec 3, 2021
TrusTrace improves product traceability and supply chain transparency using AI and blockchain technology while going from 350k to 1.5 mil revenue in 1 year.

Company co-founder Saravanan Parisutham explains how increasing transparency and traceability of ingredients allows companies and consumers to make more sustainable choices in what they sell and buy.

18 min
Nov 26, 2021
JobJack.co.za 10x'd in 2020 and is now automating HR for all entry-level jobs at McDonald's and other large retailers in South Africa

Heine Bellingan tells how JOBJACK identified and solved the problem for the millions of job seekers in South Africa. Now they are looking to scale on other growing markets with a vision to employ the world.

22 min
Nov 19, 2021
Non-recyclable plastic is now recyclable with Miura Board technology that received private equity funding in millions $$$

Turning plastic waste into durable wood alternative, Miura Board helps to solve several of the main environmental problems.“We started our company to save the planet from plastic waste and to reduce logging and the use of landfills. Essentially when most people see plastic waste, we actually see wasted plastic,” – Alfredo Faubel, CEO

24 min
Nov 12, 2021
Crux OCM raised $9 000 000 for pipeline startup automation

Vicki Knott, CEO and Co-Founder, tells how Robotic Industrial Process Automation (RIPA) maximizes ROI for large industrial companies without ever compromising safety.

35 min
Nov 5, 2021
Credentially reduces onboarding time from 128 to 15 days for UK healthcare workers

In NHS it takes new staff up to 128 days to start treating patients. 66% of professionals won’t wait that long. But hospitals can’t neglect the procedures and safety measures. Credentially is an automated healthcare recruitment software that solves this problem and improves the productivity of existing personal - find out how from the interview with Co-Founder Kit Latham

30 min
Oct 29, 2021
From 0 to $0.5 mil revenue in 1 year for Bloq.it smart lockers start-up

How to cut logistics costs and get additional income in retail and commercial real estate: an interview with João Lopes - Bloq.it COO and Co-Founder. A high-tech software solution for the B2B smart locker industry, which can also be your ready-to-use business.

24 min
Oct 22, 2021
GloveBox raised $ 3 million and reached 600k ARR in just over a year helping insurance agencies to enhance the customer experience

GloveBox is the agency branded self-service platform connected to all insurance carriers. Co-Founder and CMO Andy Mathisen shared the intricacies of the business model, competition, and secrets of becoming a niche leader with 3 people in Sales and 2 in Marketing.

13 min
Oct 22, 2021
300K cell phone towers in US are to become 900K in 7 years. The industry related to everyone we know so little about.

Leticia Latino is a CEO of Neptuno USA, a tower manufacturer and Smart City Infrastructure Integrator. We talk about the industry of leased cell phone towers, growing market and massive opportunities with 5g

13 min
Oct 15, 2021
300K cell phone towers in US are to become 900K in 7 years. The industry related to everyone we know so little about.

Leticia Latino is a CEO of Neptuno USA, a tower manufacturer and Smart City Infrastructure Integrator. We talk about the industry of leased cell phone towers, growing market and massive opportunities with 5g

26 min
Oct 8, 2021
Macromoltek reduces antibody development time from 1+ year to 4 weeks with computational modelling.

In this talk with Monica Berrondo - Co-Founder and CEO of Macromoltek - find out how science becomes a successful business and how custom antibodies are designed.

38 min
Sep 20, 2021
The Better Meat Co. closing 2021 with over $1 mil in B2B revenue - an interview with CEO Paul Shapiro

The Better Meat Co. is a B2B startup that helps institutional food sellers achieve their goals of culinary excellence by providing mycoproteins and plant-based proteins for foodservice providers and meat processors to make their meat, in a word, better.

23 min
Sep 20, 2021
Optiyol - computational route optimisation saving customers 20% in fuel costs and improving on-time delivery rate on 30%

Ozan Gözbaşı, Optiyol Co-founder and Chief Algorithms Officer explains how Optiyol builds AI for Transportation. Automating and optimizing transportation planning decisions saves its users 20% in fuel costs, 7% in capital investment, and brings a sweet 3% increase in sales.

22 min
Sep 15, 2021
Kirobo removes the risk of human error from crypto transactions and changes the way we interact with cryptocurrency

Kirobo.io is known for developing the ETH crypto undo button, and is now launching p2p swaps and much more.Asaf Naim, Co Founder and CEO tells how Kirobo.io expands the world’s DeFi infrastructure advancing mass crypto adoption and usage.