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
  

In this Christmas special episode of The First Rung Justus & Kiran speak with Joerg who is a seasoned serial entrepreneur, investor and author - Joerg sold his first business to Ebay in 1999 only 3 years after finishing university, since then Joerg has had a truly diverse and adventurous career bouncing between starting his own foundations to now leading the early stage VC: APX backed by Axel Springer and Porsche in Berlin.

Joerg has a lot of experience across technology sectors, but to mix it up this episode we dove into the topic of the future of work to better understand his perspective on how this will shape the coming years of education, careers and technology.

Throughout our conversation we discussed the future of hiring with AI, Upskilling and Reskilling and why remote work might stick around after covid. This episode was an absolute pleasure to record and close off 2020. So as always, sit back, relax and enjoy!

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• Guest Details: Joerg Rheinboldt
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rheinboldt/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/joerg
• Medium: https://joerg.medium.com/
  

In this episode of The First Rung Justus & Kiran catchup with Meg Zeenat Wamithi, a revolutionary young leader and powerful advocate for the importance of tackling mental health, especially among young people. At present, Meg is working on many projects as always, she is the Founder and CEO of My Mind Matters Too, innovation hub for mental wellbeing research for young adults (16 to 25-year-olds) across the UK. Meg has had a diverse and rich series of first rung journeys - from the Civil Service Fast Track Scheme to Think Tank Policy Research and Innovation Strategy Consultancy. Above all Meg is committed to ensuring that young people's voices are heard, but most importantly that they matter too.

Throughout our conversation we discussed the challenges of tackling mental health, working with and finding mentorship, and how to align your projects with your career experience. If you’re interested in learning more about mental health, mentorship, policy writing, or politics this will be a perfect episode for you.

TW: in this episode, we do discuss some honest and vulnerable moments of Meg’s journey, there is a reference to suicidal thoughts and self-harm, however, we want to acknowledge our guest whole experienced, not just their successes but hardships too - if you feel like this might affect you feel free to listen to another one of our episodes, and possibly reach out to organisations like https://www.mymindmatterstoo.com/ and https://www.mind.org.uk/

This was such an energetic episode, I think you should take some: get up, go for a walk and enjoy this episode!

• Guest Details: Meg Zeenat Wamithi
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-zeenat-wamithi-46781513b/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/meg_wamithi
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megzeenatwamithi/
  

In this episode of The First Rung Justus & Kiran speak with Catherine, the guest with the most diverse career experience so far on the show. At present, Catherine is working for Credit Suisse as a software apprentice - but we barely even got to talk about this! Cathine decided not to go to university and is a strong believer in a self-development style education. She has participated in industry-leading technical training courses including Code First Girls, Capital Enterprise’s Machine Learning Training and Makers Academy.

Catherine has delved into the worlds of publishing with Penguin Random House, Broadcasting at the BBC, Financial Services with Bloomberg and most recently Venture Capital with Included VC. We discussed the joys and struggle of writing books, why everyone should consider not going to university and the role diversity and inclusion should play in our technology platforms of the future. If you’re interested in alternative education, crypto, writing and VC this will be a perfect episode for you.

This was such an energetic episode, I think we have to mix it up: get up, go for a walk and enjoy this episode!

• Guest Details: Catherine Tranfield
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinetranfield/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/CatTranfield
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cattranfield/