Think Like

Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship
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Learn to think like the leaders shaping tomorrow. In this podcast, Ata Engin from Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship goes in-depth with well-known founders, entrepreneurs and C-level executives to unpack the niche and insightful topics that truly drive their success. By moving past surface-level stories, we give you the tactical insights needed to adopt the mindset of a successful entrepreneur. Subscribe today and take the first step towards thinking like the best in the business.

Episodes

  1. 5d ago

    #7 - Jip Dresia (Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship): Surviving Failed Partnerships, The Illusion of Open Innovation and The Partner vs Customer Trap

    In this seventh episode of our podcast series Think Like, we sit down with Jip Dresia, International Partnerships Lead at Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, who builds partnerships and projects across five continents. We all get excited about new partnerships, so why do so many of them fail? Jip shares the common traps, the lessons from partnerships that didn’t work out, the real difference between a partner and a client, and her recipe for partnerships that actually create value.

    #7 - Jip Dresia (Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship): Surviving Failed Partnerships, The Illusion of Open Innovation and The Partner vs Customer Trap

  2. Oct 22

    #6 - Graham Cross (ex-Unilever, RSM): Why Every Company Is Temporary

    In this sixth episode of Think Like, we sit down with Dr. Graham Cross, Executive Fellow at Rotterdam School of Management and former Global Director of Innovation Alliances and Partnering at Unilever. Drawing on more than three decades of open innovation practice, Graham explains why the ambition of a startup is, ironically, to become incapable of behaving like one, and why embracing the idea that companies are temporary may be the key to long-term success.

    #6 - Graham Cross (ex-Unilever, RSM): Why Every Company Is Temporary

  3. Oct 15

    #5 - Farshida Zafar (Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship): Entrepreneurship Beyond Technology

    In the fifth episode of our podcast series Think Like, we sit down with Farshida Zafar, Director of Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, to explore what entrepreneurship looks like beyond technology. In this conversation, Farshida challenges the binary split between “soft” and “hard” skills, explains why AI is really the social sciences and humanities in a lab coat, and discusses why every leader has an expiration date, and how being aware of it makes them more future-ready.

    #5 - Farshida Zafar (Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship): Entrepreneurship Beyond Technology

  4. Oct 9

    #4 - Leonardo Fuligni (Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship): The Mechanics of Scaling, Growth Traps, and The AI Reality Check

    In the fourth episode of our podcast series Think Like, we sit down with Leonardo Fuligni, Executive Director at Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, to examine the uncomfortable realities of scaling in Europe. In this conversation, Leonardo challenges common growth myths, explores the fundamental difference between scalability and actual scaling, and discusses how leaders must adapt their organisations to avoid becoming their own bottleneck.

    #4 - Leonardo Fuligni (Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship): The Mechanics of Scaling, Growth Traps, and The AI Reality Check

  5. Oct 1

    #3 - Dr. Carsten Mahrenholz (COLDPLASMATECH): Cold Plasma Wound Care, Systemic Healthcare Innovation, and Scaling MedTech

    In the third episode of our new podcast series Think Like, we sit down with Dr. Carsten Mahrenholz, founder and CEO of COLDPLASMATECH, to dive into the intersection of entrepreneurship and human-centred impact. Under his leadership, COLDPLASMATECH is scaling a unique cold plasma technology to restore dignity and healing to patients with untreatable wounds, proving that strong moral values can drive business success.

    #3 - Dr. Carsten Mahrenholz (COLDPLASMATECH): Cold Plasma Wound Care, Systemic Healthcare Innovation, and Scaling MedTech

  6. Sep 25

    #2 - Nadia Fani (Coastruction): 3D Printed Reefs, Marine Restoration, and Scaling Deep-Tech

    In this second episode of our podcast series Think Like, we sit down with Nadia Fani, founder of Coastruction and Rotterdam's 2026 Businesswoman of the Year. Under her leadership, Coastruction is rewriting the rules of marine restoration by using innovative powder-bed 3D printing to turn local natural materials into biomimicry artificial reefs that revive global ecosystems.

    #2 - Nadia Fani (Coastruction): 3D Printed Reefs, Marine Restoration, and Scaling Deep-Tech

  7. Sep 17

    #1 - Joe Wilson (bunq): GenAI Banking, Scaling Traps, and Structural Profitability

    In this premiere episode of our new podcast series Think Like, we sit down with Joe Wilson, Chief Evangelist and former COO of bunq, to explore exactly that. Under his leadership, bunq rewrote the rules to become Europe's second-largest neobank and the first EU neobank to reach structural profitability. Joe pulls back the curtain, revealing his thoughts on questions such as: “Is securing a job at bunq statistically harder than getting accepted into MIT?”“What does it actually mean to be a GenAI-first bank (handling 97% of customer support with AI while maintaining a 90% satisfaction rate)?”“Why is granting employees full ownership the secret to staying innovative for long periods of time?”“What specific traps must ambitious founders avoid when scaling?”

    #1 - Joe Wilson (bunq): GenAI Banking, Scaling Traps, and Structural Profitability
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Learn to think like the leaders shaping tomorrow. In this podcast, Ata Engin from Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship goes in-depth with well-known founders, entrepreneurs and C-level executives to unpack the niche and insightful topics that truly drive their success. By moving past surface-level stories, we give you the tactical insights needed to adopt the mindset of a successful entrepreneur. Subscribe today and take the first step towards thinking like the best in the business.

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  • Creator
    Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    7
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    © Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship
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    Think Like