Growth Show

In this episode, we have the pleasure to talk with Bedeir Rizk about faking it until you make it, getting the first big corporate retail companies, about the octopus strategy, what makes a great mentor and much more! More about Bedeir Rizk: He is the CMO of Qopius, a deep-tech startup based in Paris & Berlin that leverages AI & robotics to digitize physical stores. Formerly Bedeir was an AI researcher for a couple of years at the Intelligence Robotics research lab from Siemens. Additionally, he has experience in strategy consulting and investment banking with retail focus.

In this episode, we meet with Lukas Haensch. He is the founder of Pathmonk and has an extensive background in conversion optimization and UX. He describes himself as a UX Conversion ‘Nerd’. He has worked at Google for quite some time as UX Manager in the mobile optimization team. Topics covered in this podcast: - How to optimize your mobile website - Differences in mobile and desktop conversion - How to increase conversion by using onsite behavior for optimization Hands-on tips on tools, like webpagetest.org Website Pathmonk: https://pathmonk.com/

In this episode of the Growth Show we have the pleasure to talk with Florian Schneider, who is Founder & CEO of Fairling – a digital trade fair for brands. We talk with Florian about the ups and downs of his journey, about pivots and lessons learned, what KPIs have to do with it, and how they managed to leverage offline events to increase user growth. Also, why paying users are more interesting (not because of the obvious reason). More about Florian: After studying Information Systems Florian Schneider found his first company Findeling. Only a little later his second entrepreneurial journey started with FAIRLING. Because of an own need he developed a digital KPI model over the course of the next two and a half years, which visualizes the most important KPIs and puts them into perspective. This helped him 10x his revenue by scaling in a controlled way. After more and more companies came up to him and asked for help in finding and visualizing their KPIs, Florian decided to found his third venture Leantree. He

Mathias is Partner at Speedinvest x. Prior to launching Speedinvest x, a Speedinvest focus fund investing into network effects, he was a General Manager for the German market at Uniplaces, an international marketplace for student accommodation. Before that, Mathias built out the marketplace-practice at Berlin-based Point Nine Capital, an early-stage fund focusing on SaaS and marketplaces, where he was a Principal for 4 years. Previously, Mathias led the M&A-department of ricardo Group, then a subsidiary of South African Naspers, that operates several online marketplace, classifieds and auction businesses across Europe. Earlier, he started his career as an Investment Manager at Mountain Partners Group in Zurich where he leads early-stage investments in companies such as Lieferando or reBuy. Mathias holds a German-French double-diploma from European School of Business Reutlingen and Neoma Business School Reims. Knowing Germany’s capital city like the back of his hand, Mathias now leads Speedinvest`s Berlin offi

What a story! In this episode of the Growth Show Podcast, we talk with Johannes Kliesch, Co-Founder and Managing Director of SNOCKS. SNOCKS started as an e-commerce startup, selling only socks via Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) and Shopify. By now they have evolved into a full Lifestyle Brand and have no intention of stopping anytime soon. Tune in to hear the amazing story behind SNOCKS, learn about Johannes as a founder, how SNOCKS uses and masters the art of selling through Amazon and what is next to come.

Peter Hopwood is Global Keynote Speaker Coach & Founder of Hopwood Communications. He travels the globe helping people tell clearer stories with stronger impact. Bringing more value to their ideas. He helps executives and entrepreneurs develop their speaking style in front of a crowd or on camera, gain investment and persuade with impact. Equally, as an internationally experienced live events MC, Peter has developed an extensive global portfolio of shaping large scale conferences. He loves to be kept on his toes wearing many hats – mentor, coach, presenter and voiceover talent. In this episode, we talk with Peter about his impressive background in public speaking and his career path over the past twenty years. Peter shares valuable insights about body language, how to use your voice, how to master public speaking and much more. Tune in to hear how you make your audience care about what you have to say and how you make sure to stay in their heads. Would you like to know more about Peter and why speaking on

In this episode, we have the pleasure to talk with Sophie Zepnik about the early days of hejhej-mats. hejhej-mats is offering the first holistic closed-looped yoga mat. This means, the yoga mats are not only produced from recycled materials but will be recyclable at the end of their lifespan. You will also hear insights about developing a fully sustainable product - closing the loop from start to finish. Tune in and check out this amazing Startup story with a great vision!

As an electrical engineering graduate Sebastian started his career as automation engineer within a brown coal mining facility. When he moved to software development he started to work for a medium-sized IT company, as engineer, team lead and later as project lead. A few years ago, he transitioned to Axel Springer and started living the agile way. Within Axel Springer, as CTO of Ideas Engineering, Sebastian is one of the key drivers to transform this historic corporation to become a modern tech company. This challenge and his passion for a great team culture motivates him every single day! Tune in to hear the story about his awesome journey!

Lennart completed his B.A. at the design college, the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbisch Gmünd in product design, and passed his bachelor's thesis with a 1.0. During his studies, he also worked in design studios in Ulm, Hamburg, and Chicago as he studied Interior Design at the Ohio State University in the US. Directly after graduating in spring 2015, Lennart founded a design agency (THINKS Design GmbH) together with his Co-Founder Florian Goecke and shortly afterward them two founded a sports brand (STRYVE GmbH). While the agency also offers design as a service the agency now also develops products for the company's own sports brand. From anti-vandal lights for public spaces, advertising campaigns and user interface design to lifestyle and sports products, THINKS is always dedicated to new customers and projects. The style is mostly timeless, minimal with high demands on aesthetics, function, and attention to detail. THINKS already won the iF and Red Dot Design Award in 2017, 2018 and 2019. STRYVE GmbH h

Julian Blessin is Co-Founder of TIER Mobility - the Berlin based micro-mobility company. TIER was founded in summer 2018 and is already active in 35+ cities in 12 countries. Before founding TIER, Julian was with the Berlin team of BCG Digital Ventures as a Lead Venture Architect where he launched and scaled COUP - a BOSCH owned eScooter-Sharing Company. Prior to joining BCG DV, Julian invested in Tech Startups for an international VC fund. Julian studied Business Administration and Technology Management at LMU Munich, CDTM and UC Berkeley and holds a PhD in BA. In this episode, we will talk with Julian about the massive growth of TIER to 5 Mio. rides per month and what led to it, the challenges of a hyper-growth startup and much more!

Serhat Kaya is a German Entrepreneur and Founder of the digital agency XPERIENTS. He is also Initiator of the Hamburg Chapter of Startup Grind and Host of the podcast "The Growth Show". Serhat's passion is supporting entrepreneurs in changing the world. The digital agency XPERIENTS supports entrepreneurs in designing great products with an amazing UX as well as with conversion optimization. With Startup Grind Serhat connects the startup scene in Hamburg with knowledge transfer from founders for founders. He also explores growth topics in his podcast with practical insights for innovators. Last but not least he supports innovation processes within tech events & corporate innovation events as a facilitator, whenever he as the time for that. In this episode, Serhat's co-host Sebastian Kunz is having a casual talk with him, so that you have the chance to get to know your hosts a little bit better. He shares some of the remarkable stories he heard in interviewing other entrepreneurs in fireside chats as host of S

Jan Sapper grew up in Guatemala, did his Bachelor in engineering in Vienna, completed his Master's degree in Business Management in London and is currently working on optimizing the iPad. In 2012 Jan started "Sapper Limited" with the intent of creating the MacDock; the most awesome docking station for the MacBook – ever. This journey brought him through all stages a startup goes through market research, building a community, filing patents, managing teams remotely, sourcing components in Europe and Asia, launching and managing a successful Kickstarter campaign and so on. All in all; Jan built an awesome product and in that process acquired competencies and gathered insights that anyone freshly out of the uni can only get by having his own startup. This adventure ended in tears, but what Jan learned in the process defined some essential foundation blocks for his later entrepreneurial path. Jan joined Protonet's ranks in the Marketing & Sales team by the end of 2013 and ended up becoming Product manager there

Robin Himmels is Co-Founder & COO of the healthy food delivery company eatclever. Robin loves being in situations where he can explore the underlying mechanics of things, whether they are machines, processes, or products. Analysing and understanding how a certain ingredient in a recipe influences the taste does not just allow you to tweak the product, but also to develop new products. This insight holds value through all his interests in food, processes & technology.  This curiosity led him to found his first company, an affiliate business comprised of multiple couponing platforms. Understanding how consumers and employees behave and how they can be motivated was the reason he studied business psychology and e-business. After selling his first company he decided to combine his passion for food with his desire to build and develop products & businesses. As COO he leads & develops eatclevers teams in the areas of Partner Management, Product Development, Customer Support, and Logistics. He always looks for ways

Pascal van Steen is Co-Founder of the Netherland based Growth Marketing Agency „Growth Spike“, Organizer of the Growth Hacker Talk in Amsterdam and Host of Blockchain Investor Summits. Pascal is obsessive about growth as well as fascinated by new technologies and the startups which create them. He is an expert in communicating the value of startups with the right audience and converting them into clients. Since big budgets aren't always available, Pascal implements an experiment driven growth process to maximize cost-effectiveness and subsequently help his clients grow. Pascal was formerly in Growth Marketing positions at Blockport, Greenhome and Prezi. In this episode we talk with Pascal about his growth marketing recipes and learnings, discuss the amazing marketing success of Initiative Q (we are pretty sure you have heard about them especially last year) and much more. Amongst other things Pascal shares with us, how he and his co-founder reached out to crypto investors through WhatsApp groups.

Andy is a German serial entrepreneur. He is currently Founder and Managing Director of Ryte and Co-Founder & Host of the Founder Festival Bits & Pretzels and Co-Founder and Chairman of the performance marketing agency EPHNY. Andy Bruckschlögl started his first business at the age of 12, selling backpacks on eBay. A year later he founded his first online shop. In order to promote the online store better, Andreas began to learn how to optimize websites for search engines. Four years later he started another online shop for fashion, which unfortunately failed due to the high return rate. In 2008, Andy was hired as a super trainee by online marketing expert Marcus Tandler. With the merge to Tandler.Doerje.Partner, Andreas Bruckschlögl became Head of Inbound Marketing at age 21, taking responsibility for a team of 10 employees. In July 2012 Andy co-founded Ryte (former OnPage.org) – an innovative software for website quality management and -optimization. Today, the bootstrapped company with 42 employees is gener

Adi Arezzini is co-founder and CEO of Teami Blends, a bootstrapped lifestyle brand centered around using all-natural, plant-based ingredients to help customers live happier, healthier lives. Teami’s product line ranges from wellness blends to tea-infused skincare. From a young age, Adi was taught the benefits of holistic health and plant-based eating by her health conscious mother. At 19, Adi served as a combat trainer for the Israel Defense Force, and later, after returning home to Florida, qualified as a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) certified personal trainer. After years of life in the army barracks, Adi realized her gut wasn’t functioning properly, due to a lack of access to quality nutrition. Despite trying different diets, supplements and more, nothing seemed to help with her lagging digestive system, inability to go to the bathroom and painful bloating. Soon Adi began experimenting with loose leaf tea blends as a natural remedy. These high quality teas Adi made uncovered the root of her

Kim Dormann is co-founder and managing director of Redpinata, a Hamburg-based video production company for high-quality moving image content of all sizes. The North German media entrepreneur has learned the use of voice, emotions and feedback from the audience as a musician, the economic thinking for companies in his time as a foreign trade merchant. The graduate designer acquired his sense for aesthetics and his understanding for the design of communication during his studies as well as during his years as a web developer. Since 2010 he has been self-employed with Redpinata, one of the first video content creators worldwide, where he connects authentic media with brands and channels and helps to serve interaction and demand with relevant video formats. In this episode we will talk with Kim about the ingredients for a great video, underestimated video channels and more.

You just need to become one with your target audience!“ – Gilles De Clerck is a Growth Marketer. In 2016 he started as a marketer at a SaaS startup called "Salesflare". During that time he learned a lot of things by experimenting and people started to call him growth hacker. When his learning curve flattened he started to work for the growth hacking agency "Growth Revolution" as Head of Growth. He worked with clients on projects from startups to corporates, was responsible for the inbound strategy and the positioning of the growth hacking agency and was the lead of the Growth Revolution conference. Today he is the Founder of Ablaze Growth Studio. ABLAZE crafts and scales ROI-driven growth machines for startups, new ventures and personal brands from the creative intersection of data, experimentation and human psychology. In this episode we dive deep into the secret recipes of a practitioner of growth hacking – a term which describes mostly the continuous adjustment of your marketing strategy to your target gro

"For the journalists it was just cool that the founders themselves approached them personally." Michael Asshauer is Co-Founder of Familonet – a Social Network for the Family, which was acquired in 2017 by Moovel – the multimodal mobility platform of Daimler. During his time as Founder he was mainly responsible for the product as Chief Product Officer. Today Michael is working as Head of Product Design of Moovel. In this episode we explore with Michael how he and his team managed to get the first users for their app and how that user growth developed to the hockey stick growth, which every tech founders dreams of.

"Freedom within a big corporation." 60 employees, 10 to 12 nationalities and all of that within 4 years. Jonas Thiemann ist CEO & Co-Founder of AppLike – AppLike is an App Recommendation & Discovery Plattform. His first venture was directly after his studies. Unfortunately it did not work out and somehow his path came across with one of Europes largest publishing houses Gruner & Jahr and the corporate world. During that time he became a Gruner & Jahr intrapreneur. Learn more in this episode about the story behind Jonas Thiemann and his great success as intrapreneur and what supported the growth of AppLike.