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Innovators Can Laugh
How do companies like UiPath, KPMG, and Deutsche Telekom onboard new employees?
Through gamified training. Chambr is a digital platform used in 22 countries for community building, team bonding, and learning sales and leadership skills. But the road to launching Chambr could have ended when companies canceled their contracts due to the pandemic. Forced to pivot and go digital, in this chat, co-founder Gabriela Constantinescu shares the highs and lows of her entrepreneurial journey. And of course, we laugh A LOT of laughs in the process.
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or another podcast player.
Show highlights:
0:55 – 25k in cash or dinner with Rene Brown
2:00 – a brilliant prank you did?
2:58 – something that really annoys you?
3:35 – an unusual way you have either earned or saved money?
4:22 – how did you get started in creating games for HR departments?
7:05 – how did you get your first in the door with Deutsch Telecom and UiPath?
8:57 – how did you guys pivot when Covid happened?
10:10 – what is a game like for a new hire at KPMG?
12:00 – is Chambr global?
12:48 – what are you responsible for at Chambr?
13:27 – are you bootstrapped?
14:35 – if I were to give you $10k to enhance your business, what would you do?
15:10 – what tool are you using that you are excited about?
16:20 – what are you reading now that has blown your mind? – Superbetter by Jane M.
17:04 – what is one habit that you have cultivated that has served you well?
20:35 - what was the highest stakes negotiation you have ever been in?
Upcoming Guests / Episodes
👧 Raluca Haulica - founder of Alura. ~ 3/23/23
👦 Florin Lazar - COO at Freya Sense ~ 3/30/23
👩 Evelina Necula - co-founder of Kinderpedia ~ 4/6/23
Funny Clip
Ionut Vlad explains how they were able to fix their Tokinomo robots at the last minute with the help of a drunk friend! See clip.
Fun Links
🕺Love this David Bowie Let’s Dance tribute from DJ Skratch Bastid.
📩👫 How do you introduce two people vie Email? My buddy Nick has got you covered. See script.
🫐 This is the smoothie I’m now drinking based on a 63-year-old doctor who’s biologically 43.
🏃 Cool running club here in Bucharest that Gabriela Deleanu told me about
Some Fav Quotes
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks.”
“When you first rise in the morning tell yourself: I will encounter busybodies, ingrates, egomaniacs, liars, the jealous and cranks. They are all stricken with these afflictions because they don’t know the difference between good and evil. Because I have understood the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil, I know that these wrong-doers are still akin to me . . . and that none can do me harm, or implicate me in ugliness—nor can I be angry at my relatives or hate them. For we are made for cooperation.”
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Marcus Aurelius
Funny Meme
WARNING: Don’t go to Dagobert Renouf’s Memelogy.co site unless you’re ready to laugh out loud. In case you missed it, Dagobert shared his startup journey in episode 45 of Innovators Can Laugh.
The End
Let’s dance!
(still have David Bowie’s song in my head)
Today my son is getting surgery (minor, nothing major). So, while my wife is spending the night with him in the hospital, it’s just me and my little girl. So, that means we’re cooking pasta tonight, her favorite dish : )
I also broke 80 kilograms. Through a combination of just eating 800 calories two days a week and eating less processed foods overall, I am trying to get to 78.5. Man, losing weight is much harder when you’re over 40!
Getting excited about my mom visiting, the cocktail party I’m hosting on the 27th, and getting in shape.
Have a great weekend!
Eric M.
