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Podcast · By joe@startuprad.io · English · Official site

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 29, 2026

    E 779 — Leapsome: 10 Years to an Agentic HR Platform (opens the original)

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    Every HR software company in 2026 claims AI agents. Almost none can show the decade of work that makes agents useful. Leapsome can. Co-CEO Jenny von Podewils walks through it: 5 bootstrapped years in Berlin to reportedly $10 million ARR, a $60 million Series A led by Insight Partners in 2022, a ground-up HRIS rebuild in October 2024, and since July 2026 an agentic platform where EU-hosted AI agents run onboarding, absences, payroll prep, and review drafting for more than 2,000 organizations, inc

  2. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

    E 775 — EDIP, SAFE & the EU Defence Fund: Who Can Sell (opens the original)

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    Germany has the largest defence budget in the European Union — 90.6 billion euros in 2024 — and was not among the 19 member states that applied for the 150 billion euros in defence loans under SAFE. Austria was not among them either. Switzerland is not on the eligibility list for any of the 5 instruments, while Liechtenstein qualifies for all five. Joe Menninger reads the European Court of Auditors’ Review 01/2026, the EU external auditor’s first look at defence since 2019, and finds the ruleboo

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