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Our next guest in episode # 20 of That One Thing: Sacha Morard, co-founder of Edgee. I have said it before: I am a bit hesitant to interview only tech entrepreneurs, as this is the anti-bullshit podcast and well: let’s say tech founders are not always the most humble and realistic entrepreneurs out there. But: am I glad I talked to Sasha. I almost TRIED to get him to brag about his business, but without any success. With Edgee he is not only building an entire new technology, he is doing it scalable and fast: him and his co-founder raised 3 million EUR after being in business for just 6 months.
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In this final episode of my journey through Thailand and Singapore, I find myself in Bangkok—my favorite city in the world. My goal? To meet Min Poramin, a visionary entrepreneur who launched his first restaurant just five years ago and now owns nearly 30.
Originally planning to visit one of his restaurants near the bustling Siam shopping district, I pivot to his office after a quick message from his assistant. Bangkok’s 40-degree heat makes even a short trip on foot unbearable, so I hop into a Tuk Tuk and head to our meeting.
What inspires me most about Min is his mindset: He. Thinks. Big. Growing one successful restaurant in five years is impressive—scaling to nearly 30 is extraordinary.
Join me as we discuss Min’s bold approach to entrepreneurship and how he built a thriving business empire.
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In this episode of That One Thing I find myself in the hub for start-ups of Singapore: Launchpad. A location where start-ups, incubators, accelerators and venture capitalists form an ecosystem that spurs innovation and collaborations.
One of those Start-Ups is AI Seer - founded by Dennis Yap, my guest for today. I wanted to talk to him because I think his invention, Facticity.AI, a live fact checker, is more relevant than ever. And it is not only me who seems to think so: Facticity was named one of Time’s 200 best inventions of 2024.
I meet Dennis in his office where he takes me through how Facticity works, and as this episode was recorded a few days before the American Elections (before we knew Trump won), he shares with me why he finds his tool more relevant than ever.
Today in Episode #18 of That One Thing, Dennis Yap, founder of AI Seer and inventor of Facticity.AI.
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Today in That One Thing, as I am on my mission to interview 100 entrepreneurs around the world, I am talking to Keith Theo. We meet each other in a beautiful old townhouse in the east of Singapore. Keith is a serial founder, who has just started his new business CClarity. His platform helps you to get more leads on LinkedIn - something I find very interesting, and I bet you do to. We talk about the need for founders to be the face of their own business - and how they can do it efficiently. As I am a very active LinkedIn user, I figured it would make sense for him to use my profile to give tips that could be helpful for all of us. Today on that one thing - how to get more leads on LinkedIn.
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Today in That One Thing, I talk to Linda Lim in her phenomenal studio in Bangkok. I find myself in a cab that starts driving off one of the main roads of the city, and while I am taking a few back roads, I find myself all of the sudden in front of a door branded Studio X. Behind it—a 40,000 square foot compound with a Hollywood-style virtual studio. As she says, “10x bigger than we planned it to be.” When she met her husband Thom, she decided to leave her corporate career behind and become an entrepreneur. A journey that via several businesses brought her from San Francisco, to Myanmar, and now to Bangkok where she co-founded Studio X Beyond—a virtual production studio . Think filming a car commercial where a car spectacularly drives down a huge mountain—all shot from an indoor studio, but produced with a digital background.
With Studio X, she is taking a leap bigger than ever before: trying to disrupt the content creation industry. Today in That One Thing, I talk with Linda Lim, co-founder and CEO of Studio X, about what it is like to try to disrupt such a large and existing industry as that of video production.
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Today in my mission to interview 100 entrepreneurs around the world I travel to Zurich (Switzerland) for episode 15 with producer Al Hug. A multi-talented producer that has worked with some of the biggest rappers in the world. When I thought of doing a podcast with him I was a little bit in doubt: I was wondering if he would consider himself an entrepreneur… luckily, his answer was: YES, DEFINITELY and we ended up having maybe one of my most interesting conversations so far. We talk about what his business looks like: what type of revenue you have, how you network and how you do marketing. And turns out: he is not only a producer, but also a software nerd, so he tells me more about the product he built to make sure he is efficient at getting the music samples he makes out - and gets the royalties he deserves. Today in That One Thing on being an entrepreneur in the music industry: Al Hug.
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Today in episode 14: Ties den Dekker, founder of Staxxer and Spy-Fi. I think he is the type of entrepreneur that succeeds because he has a great sense for business ideas that are spot-on. On top of that, he has a very forward thinking vision on building teams in a new way. At Staxxer - he is building a fully remote team, creating the job of his dreams for himself AND for all his employees. And with global CEO’s backtracking on their promise that staff can work from home, I want to know: how does Ties do it? We talk about how he wants to build this company around the life he wants, how you manage a team remote and if you can truly achieve the same as when working together in an office.
Today in That One Thing, how to build a fully remote company, Ties den Dekker, Founder of Staxxer.
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To record today's episode, I flew to Barcelona - a city now known for many entrepreneurs to move to. Who doesn’t want to work by the beach and eat tapas all while building a successful business? I wanted to talk to Enric because he has a story that I think is too often not told. His business Picker, an online platform that allowed influencers to easily sell products for vendors, had 1 million Monthly Active Users and sold over 1.5M EUR worth of merchandise every month until their main partner, Amazon, canceled their contract. A 60% drop in those numbers overnight. We talk about what it is like to start a business in Barcelona, the day he found out Amazon canceled their contract and what it is like to actually come to that final decision: closing your business. Today in That One Thing, Enric Gabarro.
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Now, today’s episode might just be my most personal one yet. You see, my guest and I go way back—we were neighbors in downtown Yangon during the Military coup on the 1st of February 2021, both of us trying to navigate our businesses through the aftermath of that awful day. Today’s episode is about resilience, and let me tell you, if there’s anyone who embodies this quality, it’s her. Forget Elon Musk, forget Bill Gates—when it comes to learning real, hard-earned lessons in entrepreneurship, she’s the one to listen to.
From growing up in the small town of Mogok, Myanmar, to making her mark in Yangon, Singapore and now Thailand, she’s become a global force to be reckoned with. She’s not just an entrepreneur; she’s a powerhouse listed in Forbes 30 under 30 and the mind behind Icarus Media, a social enterprise reaching over 11 million people every month.
In today’s episode, we’ll explore how she expanded her horizons beyond her hometown, steered her business through a military coup, and managed to stay sane and successful through it all.
Today in That One Thing: Resilience with Lach Baniya.
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Today in That One Thing, Marieke Van Gent, Founder of IT Efficiency. Her mission is to digitize the cultural sector, by helping organizations with strategic IT project management: think about everything from ticketing to workforce planning, to implementing Microsoft Office 365. All in a very interesting sector: Arts and Culture. Interesting of course because of the beautiful art, but also because it is an industry that is traditionally leap years away from the progress other organizations have already made.
A perfect match for this podcast: as we talk about the no-nonsense approach Marieke has to digitalization, not focussing on the next shiny invention, but on real life solutions that truly make people's life easier. And no, that is not always a fancy AI tool. Today in That One Thing: Marieke van Gent on Digital Transformation.
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Today, we're joined by Hugo Pereira, who has dedicated his career to working with start-ups and has now founded his own business, Ritmoo. We talk about That One Thing that so many of us seem to struggle with getting: clarity. Find out why Hugo loves to work in start-ups, how he creates clarity in his own start-up and where he often sees management teams fail to provide clarity in their business.
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Today with Bob Verhagen, founder of Buurtdokters and an entrepreneur that is working in a space that is known to be difficult to innovate in, Healthcare.
With his company Buurtdokters he is focussed on keeping a personal GP for everyone in the Netherlands. With his previous experience - and failure - in the start-up world that tries to bring innovation in healthcare, I think he has a great view on do’s - and absolute don’ts. We discuss his love hate relationship with technology, the key to prevent innovations from dying in vain and - is AI going to save the day?
Learn more about Buurtdokters here: https://www.buurtdokters.net/
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Today in That One Thing – Michiel Trouw. Michiel is a specialized physiotherapist that did his masters in manual therapy. He has his clinic in Hengelo, Netherlands and treats people with headache, neck pain, tinnitus,dizziness, jaw-dysfunction and other problems. He teaches these topics for the CRAFTA organization to doctors and physiotherapists in the USA, Turkey andSpain. Apart from his work as a healthcare provider, he is also an entrepreneur. Since 2021 he has a CrossFit box, together with friends. His One Thing? Crossfit Health. We discuss how sports can contribute to prevention in an overloaded healthcare system and his entrepreneurial ambitions to contribute to healthier lifestyles through training.
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In this episode of That One Thing we talk with Dorit Roest - serial founder and entrepreneur. Dorit and I walked similar paths - while mine was in Asia, hers was in the Netherlands and San Francisco. When she realized that her food blog was a great way to do sponsored content deals back in early 2012, she was one of the first people in the world to start an influencer marketplace: The Influencer Movement (or TIM). Within a few years, her company had over 4.000 influencers on their platform and ran more than 500 campaigns. Of Course a great success: but one of the cool things about Dorit is that she decided to step out when it did not feel right anymore. She moved on to found ScaleNL, where she worked with the Dutch government in Silicon Valley to help Dutch founders scale to the US. All of this experience is now bundled in her new company, the Strategy Sprint Academy & Agency.
The Strategy Sprint is a revolutionary 1–day formula made by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, that help you regain your focus as a founder. After a one day intense pressure cooker, you walk out with a redefined strategy, your top 10 priorities and a roadmap with goals for the next quarter, year and 5 years. Spoiler alert - you can now book these Strategy Sprints with Rianne, your podcast host, as your facilitator.
Find more information about booking a Strategy Sprint here: https://www.getpractic.com/Strategy-Sprint
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Today in That One Thing, a personal one: my guest Milla Rae and I know eachother from Myanmar where we both spent a large chunk of our lives and careers before the Military Coup in the 1st of February 2021. We talk about her career in marketing and communications that that led her to Myanmar, and how Myanmar became home not only to herself, but also to her husband Dylan and her newborn son Jasper. How that story went? Well, not quite as planned. Her exceptional story of becoming a mother shortly before experiencing a military coup in Myanmar led her to turn her hobby of writing into a career. Last year, she self-published her very own book about her story: Not Quite To Plan. Today in That One Thing: Milla Rae on self-publishing a book.
Follow Milla’s writing journey on: https://www.instagram.com/millarae_writes/
Buy her book on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Quite-Plan-experience-pandemic/dp/1399947508
OR listen to her audio book on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/7oSoPYpVEMo1zBuZ1JaYtO?si=e9c52c78bcdd4ac9 :
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Today on that one thing: Vanessa Monsequeira. A starting entrepreneur, that I would say has had an entrepreneurial mindset for quite some time in her corporate career, since she co-founded the Agility Advisory practice for PwC in Australia. While learning some - sometimes harsh - lessons about leadership in that role, she further deepened her knowledge on what a good leader is when she was the Head of People design at Miro. While Miro was in a period of hyper growth, she built internal products that helped to empower teams through agile coaching, onboarding people in the right way, and making sure the teams were formed as a community even in times where there was a global pandemic.
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Today I talk with Kai. Someone that I believe can give us a realistic perspective on a business model that seems all the hype: being a youtuber. With his background in a stable corporate job, Kai decided he wanted to become an entrepreneur. He started providing Powerapps and VBA training online - first as a freelancer, while building a business on the side. What he believes is the difference between those two (freelancing and building a business) is something we will discuss today. Of course I want to know more about his realistic take is on being a youtuber. He tells us how the unglamorous truth is that his first video’s got only 6 or 7 views, and what it took for him to get to 20.000 subscribers AND we talk money. Can you live off your Youtube channel with 20.000 followers? Today in That One Thing: a realistic Youtuber.
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Today in That One Thing, Mark Hadfield. A seasoned marketing professional, he spent a big part of his career as the regional head of planning for global advertising agency Iris. He led some of the largest marketing campaigns in the region for companies such as Shell, Philips, Samsung and Guinness and managed teams in multiple Asian markets. After he and his wife decided to move back to the UK, in yet another agency role, he realized: this is not it.
He started working on an idea around an issue that he saw many of his clients had: he strongly believed they did not really understand the realities of their customer. His approach to customer research is to really dive into people’s lives. During face to face interviews that last for several hours to a day, Mark gets into every detail of a person’s live: asking them about their concerns, joining them in daily routines and finding out how they perceive the brand he is researching. Surprise: they might not think about brands as often as the owners hope. Today we learn how he embraced his own new reality as an entrepreneur AND his approach for brands to better understand customer realities. Welcome to That One Thing: Embracing your customer’s reality.
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Today we have 2 founders that walked similar paths - both with roots in the Netherlands, strong business backgrounds from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and both with extensive experience building startups across South East Asia. Together they built 6 ventures, across 9 countries in Asia raising several millions of funding. The problem? They always did this for other people, and were ready to take the step to become founders. They built their business on a realization they had during their jobs: every founder has 10 things they want to work on, and only time to execute 3 (if so much). One thing Lion and Koen became excellent at over the years, was executing at high speed with a strong understanding of the local market. Recently they started their company Bold Ventures. They support founders in South East Asia to have clear market understanding and execute fast. They do this from a place that is almost synonym to digital nomads - Bali. I want to check with Koen and Lion if maybe some of the social media entrepreneurship stereotypes are true - AND we dive deep into the nuances of expanding a business into South-East Asia. Today in That One Thing: Entrepreneurs in Bali - The Real Story.
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Today, we are talking about something many entrepreneurs dream of: expanding your business internationally. What better way to learn than from someone that has done this twice, in 2 very different ways: once heavily funded, and once bootstrapped. Today we talk to Erwin Sikma, entrepreneur, interim CEO and management consultant. During his experience leave at McKinsey, he joined the heavily funded Rocket Internet, where he built four online classifieds businesses in more than 10 countries. Erwin caught the entrepreneurial bug and started his own Agriculture Tech business: Impact Terra. Once he had found product market fit, it was time for international expansion again: only this time as a founder, and this time, he needed to bootstrap.
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