Episodes

In this week’s episode of Innovators Can Laugh, I sat down with Maurits Last , the founder of Swap-box , a startup that is making a real impact by producing high quality reusable packaging for B2B companies. They offer a …

Over the last couple of decades, Valentin has held a variety of jobs (and launched a few companies). Everything from selling cookbooks on the street to launching an internet service company just because he wanted to play Star...

In this interview, I chat with Maxim Rotaru, founder of a digital product studio Webamboos. Maxim shares insights on how he landed his first client, how he hired his first employee (funny interview process), and a mistake he ...

Adrian Cighi started his career in the financial field having worked in Great Britain, and for companies such as Banca Transylvania and Goldman Sachs. He then co-founded Pago which is an application that automates payments t...

A while back, I stumbled onto a story on TechCrunch that caught my attention - an innovative medical startup from Romania, helped doctors from three countries collaborate to treat Ukraine refugee cancer patients – this of cou...

Giants Village is a community-owned tech product with a real-world utility that started with a collection of 10,000 unique digital collectibles, known as NFTs, on the Multiverse X blockchain. The project currently has 1,400 h...

Pushkar Chatterji, is the co-founder of Aiva, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses become more efficient and productive through the use of machine learning algorithms. In this chat, he shares how he ...

One of the challenges that retailers face is attributing money spent on digital advertising to in-store results. Fortunately, Footprints AI is helping retailers overcome this challenge by providing them with the tools they ne...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Discover the story behind Kinderpedia, the EdTech startup that is changing the way parents are involved in their child's education. In this episode, I chat with Evelina...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Florin Lazar is the Chief Operating Officer of Freya Sense - a startup that helps other startups reduce their time to hire by 87% and look for the qualities and persona...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Romanian startup founder Raluca Haulica has grown her fashion ecommerce brand Alura to $500k in just three years. In our chat, we discuss: How she started the business ...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION How do companies like UiPath, KPMG, and Deutsche Telekom onboard new employees? Through gamification. Chambr is a digital platform used in 22 countries for community bu...

Ionut Vlad is the founder of TokiNomo. TokiNomo is an in-store advertising solution that uses robotic displays to increase engagement and sales. In this conversation, Ionut shares his journey creating Tokinomo. For example, h...

Taking calculated risks can often lead to great rewards if done correctly. In this chat with Alexandru Anghel, co-founder of Solo, Alexandru shares journey from management consultant to startup founder. To begin, Alex quit hi...

How can you empower working moms and bootstrap a platform? After facing initial rejection from investors, she bootstrapped a platform with her own money that provides resources and a supportive peer community to empower worki...

I chat with Dragoš Duse and Diana Andritchi, co-founders of medtech startup Synaptiq. Synaptiq creates software solutions based on AI for improving medical devices, with one tool using revolutionary software to separate cance...

Diana Florescu is the founder of Media Growth. In this episode we learn about Diana's journey as an entrepreneur and her current project Media for Growth which involves exchanging equity for media assets. Plus, hear about the...

Listen to Maralina's inspiring journey from wanting to be a painter as a child to becoming an NGO volunteer in countries like Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, and Suriname. Hear her discuss her work in creating ecosystems for people to...

Discover how Claudio Descalescu, the chief growth marketer for Y Combinator-backed ArchBee, uses chess, manipulation, product-led growth and surveys to improve products and gain insights into customer behavior. Listen to Clau...

Matthias Rettenbacher is the founder of Carbony - a European marketplace for high quality carbon removal projects. In this conversation, he shares his passion of reversing climate change through biochar and enhanced weatherin...

Can you imagine a plant-based food that can help prevent diseases? Well it exists and is beginning to sprout globally. Jivko Djamiarov is the founder of Ancestral Superfoods. His mission is to bring the healing power and bene...

Can you imagine working as a hotel GM, being exhausted after working a 16-hour shift and then getting a call from a customer asking to translate to the waiter “to not put onions on the pizza”? Sounds horrific right? Well …

If you thought you knew Irina Obushtarova, think again. In this conversation we learn about her days working as a waitress while wearing short shorts to her first gig at a media company in Vienna. We touch on her first …

Can you imagine your dad giving you a spreadsheet at the age of 8? Telling you to fill out all the chores you completed and penalizing you if you didn't include 'playing with friends'? Why penalize? Because her father wanted …