Business Room Podcast

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Telling business stories was never easier. Our goal is to cover all areas to create extraordinary podcast experiences. From the struggle of finding the best place to record, guiding or managing the story's structure and editing the final product, we do them all. We aim to have a real impact on today’s society and change the perspectives of future generations. Creating a wealthy society can only be made by encouraging youngsters to follow their ideas to the end and our work truly supports this statement. Your job is to bring your best stories and let us do the rest.

  1. 12 hr ago

    Why I'd Worry If None of My Founders Went Bust | Will Orde, Passion Capital | BRP #156

    "I'd be very worried if I never invested in a founder that went bust - it would show I was being too safe and boring." 💡 Will Orde - Partner at Passion Capital - joined us at the How to Web venue to talk about what it really takes to back founders on day zero. Will studied maths and physics at Cambridge, ended up in venture capital "through sheer happenstance and luck" a year out of university, and has been doing VC for 14 years. At Passion Capital he invests super early - pre-product, pre-revenue - in fintech and adjacent spaces like compliance and regtech, across London and the rest of Europe. 🚀 In this episode, Will breaks down: ✦ The three simple questions Passion asks before investing ✦ Why founders falling out is the biggest early risk - and why he doesn't love co-founders who met on an app two weeks ago ✦ The portfolio math: about 120 companies backed, five unicorns, and around a third that failed ✦ Why it's as much a sin to be too early into a market as it is to be way too late ✦ Vitamin or painkiller: why you need to be at the top of your customer's to-do list ✦ How Passion goes from a first text to "we want to invest" in eight to ten days ✦ Why pre-seed is non-obvious - and why you can't just follow the sheep ✦ His challenge: come swinging for Visa and Mastercard See if your questions are among the ones we've answered - and if not, what are you waiting for?

  2. 13 hr ago

    Why Building for Europe Is Different | Avinav Pashine, ex-Meta Reality Labs | BRP #155

    The same word can mean a completely different product in Germany and in the UK. 🌍 Avinav Pashine - former Product Lead at Meta Reality Labs - joined us at the How to Web venue for a conversation about building products across cultures, countries and teams. Born and raised in India, Avinav worked as an engineer, did his MBA between Dubai and Singapore, built a multi-channel strategy for Carrefour in France, worked on machine learning and search at Zalando in Berlin and on public mobility at Door2Door, before spending eight years at Meta - from ad tech to spatial intelligence and mixed reality for virtual reality devices. His rule was never about money: where is the next challenge, and where is the next learning? 🚀 In this episode, Avinav breaks down: ✦ Why Europe's diversity is both its biggest challenge and its biggest opportunity ✦ Why forcing a framework that worked in America onto Europe is not the right way ✦ The Zalando "shorts" example: same keyword, very different products ✦ How he built a "second brain" - an AI agent that books tickets and pays his bills ✦ Building zero-to-one products at Meta: start small, validate, peel the onion ✦ Why he was never the smartest person in the room, and why that helped See if your questions are among the ones we've answered - and if not, what are you waiting for?

  3. 13 hr ago

    Cum vânează Stripe frauda: 2.700 de conturi, un singur om | Aleodor Tabarcea, Stripe | BRP #154

    AI-ul poate prelua tot ce este proces. Ce nu poate prelua este înțelepciunea ta. 🧠 Aleodor Tabarcea, Site Lead, Engineering la Stripe, a stat de vorbă cu noi direct din locația How To Web Conference 2026, despre carieră, leadership și ce înseamnă să fii relevant în perioada următoare. Aleodor a crescut în Bacău, a dat de primul lui cod pe CD-urile din revistele de tehnologie și a făcut primii bani din IT administrând servere de jocuri. A trecut prin Bitdefender, a stat 7 ani la Adobe, apoi la Snyk, iar astăzi are grijă de echipa de 120 de ingineri de la Stripe România. Ne-a explicat de ce inginerii români construiesc lucruri foarte mișto, dar nu știu să le vândă, și cum arată din interior o investigație de fraudă la Stripe. 🚀 În acest episod, Aleodor ne vorbește despre: ✦ De ce, pentru noi, „este urât să te lauzi”, iar pentru americani orice lucru construit este „cel mai șmecher” ✦ Cum l-au ajutat Toastmasters și cursurile de actorie să comunice cu echipele din SUA ✦ De ce România nu are încă o cultură de management și cât de important este să știi să spui „nu” ✦ Cum investighează Stripe frauda și spălarea de bani: 2.700 de conturi în spatele aceluiași om ✦ Inteligență vs. înțelepciune: ce ar trebui automatizat cu AI din jobul tău și ce nu ✦ Provocarea pentru public: o carte de logică și o carte de filosofie Vezi dacă întrebările tale se numără printre cele la care am răspuns - și dacă nu, ce mai aștepți?

  4. 26 Oct

    Is Your AI Actually Working? How to Measure the Real ROI of AI | Sara Maldon, Inflect | BRP #153

    Everyone is paying for AI. Very few companies can tell you if it's actually working. 📊 Sara Maldon - CEO of Inflect and former Head of Business Automation & AI at Make - joined us at the How to Web venue for a conversation about what real AI transformation looks like from the inside. Sara started out as a lawyer, became a back-end engineer, and ended up as one of the early AI transformation leaders, at Make. When she joined, AI was actually prohibited inside the company. There was no playbook and no business case, and 90% of the first attempts failed. Still, she took the company from 8% to 96% of people using AI in their work. Today, with Inflect, she helps leaders see across their teams, processes, workflows and tools whether their AI investment is paying off. 🚀 In this episode, Sara breaks down: ✦ Why switching from law to tech was "painful, but the best thing" in her career ✦ What it took to go from 8% to 96% AI adoption, starting from a company where AI was prohibited ✦ Who should own AI in your company: chief of staff, COO, CIO/CFO or a dedicated AI transformation lead ✦ Why centralized AI teams just move the bottleneck, and how a builder inside every department changes that ✦ The "land of sameness": why founders need judgment to stand out ✦ Managing people vs. managing AI agents, and why she literally calls her AI See if your questions are among the ones we've answered - and if not, what are you waiting for?

  5. 26 Oct

    AI Will Always Rewrite You - Even When You're Right | Dave Harland, Copy or Die | BRP #152

    AI will always suggest a change. Even when your line was better. ✍️ Dave Harland, Managing Partner & Creative Director at Copy or Die, also known as The Word Man, joined us at the How to Web venue, right after his talk on weirdness in copy, for one of the funniest conversations we've had on the podcast. Dave has loved writing since he was four, and for 20 years he's been helping brands stop boring people. When he asked an AI to make one of his stories funnier, it came back with 23 suggestions and then admitted, one by one, that his original lines were funnier. When he asked it for a slogan, it went from loving it to hating it in 20 seconds, just because he said so. His conclusion is simple: never send a robot to do a human's job. 🤖 In this episode, Dave breaks down: ✦ Why the one thing AI lacks is exactly what great copy needs: humanity ✦ How "AI slop" can damage a brand's reputation beyond repair ✦ What KFC's "FCK" apology teaches us about the pratfall effect - and why 4.7 stars beat 5 ✦ The sausage-on-toast LinkedIn post that brought 300 inquiries overnight ✦ Why founders should get over themselves and show a bit more of the real them See if your questions are among the ones we've answered - and if not, what are you waiting for?

  6. 26 Oct

    That One Thing AI can’t build for you & why it’s your Biggest Advantage | Nesrine Changuel |BRP #151

    You don’t see this feature but your customers will feel it. 💜 Nesrine Changuel, PhD - Founder of Product Excellence, ex-Google, Spotify & Microsoft, and author of Product Delight - joined us for a conversation directly at the How to Web Venue, that reframes everything you thought you knew about building products people love. When she joined Google Meet, her title was Product Leader for Delight, and in a company obsessed with numbers, she proved that emotional connection it’s a winning strategy. Her argument is simple and powerful: for years, building a functional, reliable and easy-to-use product was expensive. AI made that cheap. What it can’t replicate is the moment a user feels genuinely cared for - like when an Uber app notices you haven’t moved and asks if you’re okay. That’s delight. That’s the differentiator that no algorithm can copy. 🚀 In this episode, Nesrine breaks down: ✦ Why delight is actionable - not decorative ✦ How AI is changing the product pyramid and what that means for builders ✦ What emotional connection actually looks like in a product built for millions ✦ And why, if you’re building for human beings, their emotions deserve to be honored See if your questions are among the ones we’ve answered - and if not, what are you waiting for?

  7. 26 Oct

    Din România, spre piețele globale - Viitorul Radiologiei cu AI | Ovidiu Coruga, Rayscape|BRP#150

    Există specialități medicale unde o secundă în plus poate schimba un diagnostic. Radiologia este una dintre ele. 🩻 Ovidiu Coruga, Head of Marketing la Rayscape - și medic radiolog în același timp - a venit la We Make Future 2026 în Bologna 🇮🇹 cu o perspectivă pe care puțini o au: cea a omului care a stat în ambele perspective ale produsului. Rayscape construiește AI pentru radiologi - un sistem integrat în fluxul complet al unui pacient: de la primul screening, la follow-up, până la monitorizarea răspunsului la tratament. Două produse - unul pentru raze X, unul dedicat plămânilor - deja active în Germania, Polonia, Italia, Slovacia și alte piețe din regiune 🌍. Piața americană reprezintă următorul pas. Rapoarte medicale mai rapide. Acuratețe mai mare. Și mai multe vieți salvate la finalul zilei. În acest episod, Ovidiu explică cum arată radiologia când AI intră cu adevărat în cabinet - și de ce contează că omul care vinde produsul e chiar unul dintre medicii care îl folosesc.

  8. 26 Oct

    How to Web Conference 2026 - Built for People Who Know What They Want | Monica Zara | BRP #149

    Every year, thousands of people walk into a conference hoping something good will happen. The right conversation, introduction or even the right moment. Monica Zara, Head of Conference, had one word for this year's edition: curation. And when she said it, she meant it in the most literal sense - the right people, the right rooms, the right formats, all built around one simple idea: if you know what you want to achieve, How to Web Conference will help you get there. We sat down with Monica to unpack what that actually looks like on the ground. 🔥 The conversations shaping the agenda this year go beyond AI hype - into real ROI, agentic systems, shifting team structures, who's buying technology in Eastern Europe right now, and what fundraising actually looks like in 2026. Plus, this year's lineup brings together leaders from powerhouse companies like Google, OpenAI and Meta AI. For founders, the conference built concrete pathways to growth: the Spotlight program and competition, 1:1 mentoring, dedicated investor matchmaking, Accelerate Sales & Fundraising tracks, and the Demo Area. You also get access to side events that put you in the same room as a curated investor community. Not a seat in the audience. A seat at the table. 💼 The format itself is changing too. Fewer "sit and listen" sessions. More workshops, roundtables and tight formats where you work on your actual problem with actual experts - including a session on using AI without producing the same generic output as everyone else. 🧠 And the networking? Designed, not left to chance. Dedicated 1:1 matchmaking tables, +50 side events across the city and the official conference app ensure you meet the people worth finding - not just whoever happens to be standing near the coffee. ☕ This is How to Web Conference 2026. Come knowing what you want and leave with exactly that. 🚀 See if your questions are among the ones we've answered - and if not, what are you waiting for?

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Telling business stories was never easier. Our goal is to cover all areas to create extraordinary podcast experiences. From the struggle of finding the best place to record, guiding or managing the story's structure and editing the final product, we do them all. We aim to have a real impact on today’s society and change the perspectives of future generations. Creating a wealthy society can only be made by encouraging youngsters to follow their ideas to the end and our work truly supports this statement. Your job is to bring your best stories and let us do the rest.

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  • Creator
    BusinessRoom
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    157
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