The Syndicate One Podcast

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Conversations with the founders, investors, and operators driving Belgium’s startup scene, Exploring the ideas, stories, and strategies that accelerate the ecosystem flywheel 🚀.

  1. Can Your Customers Vibe Code You Out of Business?

    21h ago

    Can Your Customers Vibe Code You Out of Business?

    Spentys had customers walk out to build their own thing. Six months later, they showed up again. So what does that really say about the whole 'vibe coding' threat to SaaS? Louis-Philippe Broze co-founded Spentys in Brussels while still in his master's. He'd just wrapped a full-time internship at Wooclap. Now he's on Forbes 30 Under 30, and Spentys has 24 people split between Brussels and Georgia. Half their revenue comes from the US. They use 3D scanning, modeling, and printing to digitize custom orthoses and prosthetics. Louis-Philippe sat down with Robin Wauters to break down what really happened when customers tried to roll their own solution, and why they came back. He gets into: How Spentys is building AI modules so tailored to orthopedics that nobody else can touch them. How raising money too early burned 18 months they could've kept.Why you should bring on an independent US board member from day one, not years down the line. Why Belgium's political setup is slowing down the whole ecosystem.You'll also hear about the lasagne-and-burger theory for staying sane as a founder, why 80% of patients choose 3D-printed devices, and what Materialise taught him about getting hospitals on board. Listen in, pass it on, and if you're building something big from Belgium, reach out.

    29 min
  2. From a shoebox of receipts to Visma: Alexis Eggermont on building Accountable

    Jun 15

    From a shoebox of receipts to Visma: Alexis Eggermont on building Accountable

    "To ship our first prototype, I had to show up unannounced at our Serbian dev agency's door. Today? I'd vibe code the whole thing."  Alexis Eggermont co-founded Accountable. If you're a freelancer in Belgium or Germany, you probably know it. Visma owns it now, but Alexis has been with Syndicate One since day one. He sat down with Robin Wauters and walked through eight years of building from zero. Here's what jumped out.  Alexis and Nicolas decided to start a company first, then came up with the idea later. They worked backward through three questions and landed on Accountable.Exits aren't a single moment. The Visma deal took four years to pull off. After the sale? Same team, same product, just a bigger family. More gradual than sudden. And while AI is melting software moats, Alexis sees it growing the market, not killing it.

    22 min
  3. Building What Matters - Navigating the AI Era with Tanguy Goretti, CTO of HEXA

    Jun 8

    Building What Matters - Navigating the AI Era with Tanguy Goretti, CTO of HEXA

    "Today is a good time to build - just make sure you understand the direction the market is heading before you start." In this episode, we sit down with Tanguy Goretti, CTO at HEXA, to unpack the new reality of the tech ecosystem. Drawing from his experience, Tanguy shares what he has learned, what he would do differently, and why he has never been more optimistic about what lies ahead for European founders. The real challenge today is not speed but relevance. Will what you are building now still matter as models evolve? With the barrier to entry lower than ever, every founder must honestly ask whether AI is helping them build something great or just making it easier to build more things. We also took time to look back and discuss what it really takes to build and scale a hardware company in Europe and what we can learn now that the dust has settled. Key questions addressed in this episode: Will what you build today still matter as models evolve?Is AI making it easier to build great companies, or just easier to build more companies?Why is the CTPO profile, technical and product, becoming the most critical role of the next decade?

    22 min
  4. A chat with Séverine Nolf, CEO and co-founder at Pleasefix.ai

    Jun 1

    A chat with Séverine Nolf, CEO and co-founder at Pleasefix.ai

    Robin Wauters sat down with @Séverine Nolf on the Syndicate One podcast.  "Every day building my own company is so many learnings. I really don't see it as a risk." 📍 Speed is the one structural advantage startups have over incumbents. Séverine's rule: be a first adopter in everything, without exception. 🔄 On being a female founder across tech, finance and consulting: she does not dwell on the barrier. When people underestimated her, delivering flipped the bias into a strength. 🇧🇪 Ambitious people in Belgium no longer need to leave to build something global. The risk is not starting. It is the compounding of learnings you miss by waiting.

    31 min

  5. May 25

    A chat with Sébastien Deletaille, CEO and co-founder at Rosa

    Robin Wauters sat down with @Sebastien Deletaille on the Syndicate One podcast"I like the idea that with few people, you can build something that scales and impacts millions." 📍 Great teams on the wrong market go nowhere. Sebastien watched sharper engineers than him get outpaced by someone on a better wave. Market choice, he argues, is what separates the top league from the rest. 🔄 On picking investors: skip the success stories. Talk to the founders who returned one and a half times. They are the ones who will tell you what a fund is really like when things get hard. 🇧🇪 On ecosystems: cities work because proximity creates serendipity. What Ghent built, Brussels can replicate, but it needs participants, not just leaders.

    44 min

  6. May 18

    A chat with Laurent Hublet, Brussels Minister for Employment, Economy, and Digital Economy

    Robin Wauters sat down with Laurent Hublet on the Syndicate One podcast: "I have 1,200 days to deliver impact. My focus is making the best out of every one of them." 📍 Laurent Hublet got a call on a Friday the 13th and had an hour to decide whether to become Brussels Minister for Economy, Employment and Digital Economy. He called his wife from a client call and said yes. 🔄 Six weeks later, his team had compressed a three-month budget process into five weeks, hired staff from scratch, and launched a government that Brussels had been waiting 18 months for. 🇧🇪 Brussels is one of the five largest power centers in the world, which makes what happens here on cyber, AI and democratic governance matter well beyond the city limits.

    19 min
  7. A chat with Serge Morel, co-founder and CTO at Powernaut

    Feb 11

    A chat with Serge Morel, co-founder and CTO at Powernaut

    Serge Morel, co-founder and CTO at Powernaut, is reinventing how energy systems work from Wintercircus (where else?). He talks us through:🚀 Getting top talents to join and work toward the bigger purpose🌎 How remote hiring helps bring diversity into a (local) bubble📌 How growth also comes from product breadth,... and more!

    14 min
  8. A chat with Kimia Namadchi, co-founder and CEO at CurveCatch

    Jan 29

    A chat with Kimia Namadchi, co-founder and CEO at CurveCatch

    Kimia Namadchi, co-founder and CEO of CurveCatch, joined Robin Wauters on our podcast and unpacked: 📌 How CurveCatch identified and now tackles a massively overlooked problem: the fact that around 80% of bra-wearers may be wearing the wrong size, and why the solution lies in data and better guidance. ☺️ How CurveCatch evolved from supporting their family-run brick-and-mortar bra shops into a (very) fast-growing startup, backed by Y Combinator. 🚨 The bright sides of being a female founder, building a company with your life partner, and challenging the odds 💪

    25 min
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Conversations with the founders, investors, and operators driving Belgium’s startup scene, Exploring the ideas, stories, and strategies that accelerate the ecosystem flywheel 🚀.

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  • Creator
    Syndicate One
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © (c) Syndicate One 2025
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    The Syndicate One Podcast

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