Эпизоды
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Pilar takes one for the team and allows me to bore everybody with stories about my mediocre attempts at tech companies and start ups.
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We have a surprisingly modest (for a Dutch person) discussion ranging from barely graduating high school to working haute finance in New York and London to how to think about retirement.
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Пропущенные эпизоды?
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We talk about going from investment banking in NY and London to running the world's 4th largest lithium mine.
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We talk about going from private equity to INSEAD, back to finance and then returning to Greece to become a MP and cabinet minister.
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We talk about going from France to Australia (via Florida), helping France get a contract to sell submarines to Australia (which was stolen by the Americans) and setting up a fund and advisory service.
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We talk about going from being a hot shot M&A lawyer in Spain to being a hot shot M&A lawyer in Spain to starting his own M&A advisory firm in Spain and an amazing foundation that is saving baby's lives.
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We talk about going from a small village outside of Calcutta to working at McKinsey to becoming a broadband fiber expert.
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We talk about starting a women's portal in Vietnam, moving to Singapore to work for Samsung and moving to Vancouver to start a metabolic health platform.
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We talk about setting up a web agency in China, sleeping on Greg Mittman's couch, starting up digital marketing in China for Nike and philosophical questions around retirement.
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We talk about raising Alpacas, sneaking pregnant wives onto transatlantic flights, working for a little company named IBM and starting a deep tech VC fund.
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We talk about going from consulting, to pumpers, to failing to become a C-grade celebrity in Italy.
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We talk about going from being a journalist in Russia, to having to leave Russia for the same reason, to using generative AI to create news in Germany.
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We talk about building brands for skincare, fragrances, herbal tea and militant chocolate.
Note from Laura - Looking forward to telling you what drove me from L’oreal & Hermes via Insead to building 2 fine french food businesses (one in herbal teas and one in organic chocolate) to my ultimate goal which is under way: taking over the 40 hectar family farm based in Brittany, France to at last start marketing REALLY useful products: carrots, sunflowers, wheat, buckwheat, cider apples, etc🌻🐝💃
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We talk about starting in the dot com boom/bust, to taking a job at McKinsey to ending up at a salmon food company in Norway.
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We talk about going from an Accenture consultant to being the CEO of the biggest bank in Northern Ireland.
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We talk about going from selling websites to selling derivatives to doing whatever it is that a hedge fund does. We also have a mini therapy session.
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We talk about bootstrapping a chocolate and coffee company in the Yucatán. Orale.
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We talk about going from being a cold hearted investment banker in Mexico to being a socially conscious private equity person in Mexico (via New York and Paris).
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We talk about going from managing a small factory in rural France to becoming a ‘big deal’ in the European green energy space.
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We talk about going from spending a decade in the US army to starting and running a winery in Texas.
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