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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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.

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...

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 and Spain. Apart from his work as a healthcare provider, he is also an entrepreneur. Since 2021 he has a CrossFit box, together...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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