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ICONS is a podcast about Europe’s most iconic consumer brands — how they won, built legendary identities, and the bold moves behind their rise. Real stories, real strategy, no fluff.Hosted by Roman Kirsch.Brought to you by The Global Talent Co.
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He Backed Europe's Most Valuable Startup From a Random WhatsApp Text | Christian Miele (opens the original)
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Christian Miele grew up carrying one of Germany's most recognizable names, without ever being a shareholder in the family company. That tension shaped everything that came next: building his own startup, becoming a VC, and backing the highest valued private company in Europe. In this episode, Christian explains how a random WhatsApp from a friend working in the French government led him to Mistral, now valued at $21B, and why he believes the smartest career advice for young people right now is t
He Scaled to €800M Revenue, Then Said It Was "The Wrong Choice" - Julian Teicke (opens the original)
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Julian Teicke is a serial founder, in the last 12 months alone, he's co-founded four companies. But before any of that, he spent 10 years as CEO of the company that made his name, scaling it to €800M in revenue and 1,500 people. He raised the money using an "ultimate experiment of manifestation," as he calls it: find the largest round ever raised in your vertical at your stage, then take it times two. It worked — Series A went from a $15M benchmark to $30M raised, Series B from $120M to $240M, S
Liquid AI's CEO: "Humans Will Stop Talking Within 25 Years!" — Ramin Hasani (opens the original)
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Ramin Hasani spent a decade studying a 2-millimeter worm before anyone outside academia knew his name. Then he solved an equation that had gone unsolved for over 100 years, published it in Nature Machine Intelligence, and woke up to an inbox full of term sheets he never asked for. That paper became Liquid AI. While every other foundation model company was racing to build bigger transformers and consume more compute, Ramin went the other direction. Liquid foundation models cut the exponential ene
The Unicorn Founder Storing Human Embryos for the Apocalypse | Martin Varsavsky (opens the original)
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Martin Varsavsky has never had a job in his life. Not one. He arrived in New York at 26 as an Argentine refugee, convinced a Nobel Prize-winning scientist to build a biotech company with him, and has been founding unicorns ever since — six in total, spanning telecoms, fertility, and now AI medicine. At 66, he has just launched Certuma, the first medical AI company explicitly designed to be FDA-regulated and capable of writing prescriptions. The trigger: an AI correctly diagnosed a condition in h
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