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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. 
Pit Janssen of MedApp has exited his prescription medicine adherence and delivery company to the biggest, stock exchange listed, EUR 2.0bn market cap online pharmacy company in Europe. MedApp launched as a medication adherence app, and rolled out an integrated pharmacy with a delivery function in 2020. They bootstrapped the company with a students loans and IT consultancy work until 2017, at which point angels came in. After raising money from Tablomonto Ventures, M3 Ventures and Health Innovations, they were acquired by Shop Apotheke Europe (ETR: RDC) in 2021.
Listen to this episode for lots of insights on
Innovation in the pharmacy businessHow oldschool pharma fought backHow to bootstrap your companyFinding hidden funding (!)The importance of a great co-founderWhat to look for in a co-founderHow to exit your business to a multinationalHow life changed for Pit and this team after the acquisitionPit’s background, drive and valuesParenting tactics for nurturing killer entrepreneursEnjoy listening!
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.
Joel co-founded London-based Trubrics, which helps product teams track what’s happening inside LLM models. He and his co-founder founded the company when they saw companies investing heavily in LLM models but remaining in the dark on what is going on inside. They’ve just closed a pre-seed round, did their first hire and are about to launch their first version of the product to customers.
Amongst many other things we talked about 
Trubric’s pre-seed roundLLMs and LLM applicationsHis evolution from engineer to sales to CEOWhen to seek advice and when to ignore itThe sales tactics Joel masteredJoels drive and valuesJoels first companies at age 13 (!)How Joel manages his confidenceEnjoy listening!
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.
Meet one of Europe’s most driven impact entrepreneurs: Kees Aarts, founder of Protix. Protix is an insect protein company founded to radically reduce the environmental footprint of our food system and help stop the loss of biodiversity in our seas. Kees and his team started out 14 years ago, and today they are the world leader in insect ingredients, running the largest insect farm ever built. Their mission is to bring the food system back into balance with nature. There were many gems in this conversation, amongst many other things we discussed:
Kees trigger to start ProtixKees first year as a founder Kees philosophy for success: Evolve every single dayKey moments of evolution in his personal and professional lifeKees analysis of why wealth can make a country less innovativeKees thoughts on the business climate in the NetherlandsKees thoughts on artificial intelligence and the future of our speciesEnjoy listening! 
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.
Kim Durand hails from Paris and moved to Mexico City to start Cheaf, which reduces food waste by offering high quality food that is close to the expiry date at steep discounts. Started less than 4 years ago, the company now employs 30 FTE.
 
Kim was born and raised in France and has worked at incubator Nova Founders Capital and Uber, before starting Cheaf. 
Amongst many other things, we discussed 
Kim's business journey spanning from France to Malaysia to the Netherlands to MexicoKim's development from numbers guy to becoming founder and CEO of CheafThe reality versus the perception of starting a companyKim's routines to stay fit and deal with stressKim's plans for the futureEnjoy listening!
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.
Sophia Hummelman Co-Founded ReCarbn, which is working on reversing climate change, by direct air capture of CO2.  
 
Sophia was born and raised in the Netherlands and has working in finance at JPMorgan and iFund, in London, Paris and Amsterdam, before starting ReCarbn. 
Amongst many other things, we discussed 
How direct air capture of CO2 worksWhat you do with the CO2Recent developments at ReCarbnReCarbns businessmodel Sophia’s own journey, all the way from her upbringing to her role at ReCarbnEnjoy listening!
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.
Listen to our talk with Harpreet Singh! Harpreet Co-Founded Peckish, and is building a new backend operating system for restaurants to drastically reduce food waste and increase profitability for restaurants. 
Harpreet was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and now works and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Before Peckish, he has founded The Turban Shop and worked at Uber as an operations manager. 
Amongst many other things, we spoke about 
Harpreets journey from Sydney to AmsterdamStress and how he deals with itSikhism and what it means for Harpreet in daily lifeThe importance of finding a great co-founderEnjoy listening!
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