Guest: Artjem Weissbeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/addy/)

Key Recommendation: Fear Setting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6jAC6XxAI)

Jobs @Charles (https://charles.jobs.personio.de/)

• Charles helps brands to pioneer Conversational Commerce by integrating shop systems (Spryker, Spopify, etc.), chat apps (WhatsApp, Instagram Direct, Facebook Messenger, etc.) & bots in one intuitive design.

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In this episode, we spoke to Clemens Raemy who is one of the most ambitious founders we’ve had on the show to date. He has an incredible entrepreneurial drive, highlighted by both his academic and professional career. We learned more about the Harvard MBA track, how the grind of financial services can ignite a passion to solve problems, and what it took to launch SaferTaxi and take over the South American taxi market. Clemens is now launching Kenbi in Germany in the healthcare space, to find out more about how to nail a role in the rapidly expanding team listen now!

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• Guest: Clemens Raemy
• Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clemensraemy/
• Job Shout Out: Get a job at his newest venture Kenbi!

Welcome to the first episode of Season 2! In this episode of The First Rung Justus & Kiran speak with Dr Richard Schwenke who has had a super diverse career so far: Engineering Bachelor in Germany - Master at MIT - 4 years at McKinsey + PhD - then Founded the ecommerce startup Contorion & sold it for a 9 figure sum - Now he is building a team around his newest startup Priceloop

Richard has a lot of experience across technology and scaling teams, throughout our conversation we discussed his struggle with universities to complete education with bureaucracy, what working at McKinsey was like/ how it shaped his entrepreneurial ventures and what it is like to sell your first company.

Importantly we also got to learn more about Richard’s newest venture Priceloop and how he hopes to change the way companies price online with data.

So as always, sit back, relax and enjoy!

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• Guest Details: Dr Richard Schwenke
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-s-5a1962a/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/priceloopai