Think Past Consensus.

A European interview podcast and newsletter. Long-form conversations with founders, investors, operators and policymakers building technology, finance, energy and culture in Europe. Hosted by Julius Ambrosius and Konstantin Girst.

• #34 Fede de Ponte - Making Human Expertise Downloadable: Building the Spotify for AI Agents

  What if you could download someone’s expertise as easily as you add a song to your playlist?

• #33 Falco Schneider - The Keyboard Has to Die: Building the Next Human-Computer Interface

  Six weeks for a prototype?“What the f*** are you talking about?”

• #32 Florian Reister - Your EV Is Worth More Abroad: Building Europe's Marketplace for Used EVs

  Can you sell a used electric car across Europe without the buyer ever seeing it?

• #31 Jacob Houlberg - What If Every VC Had Access to the Same Deals?

  What if every VC had access to the same deals? Evertrace is building the infrastructure to make that increasingly close to reality.

• #30 Philipp Baumanns - Customer Service Still Runs on Phone Calls: Reinventing It with Telli

  In EP 30, we sit down with Philipp Baumanns, Co-Founder & COO at Telli, the YC-backed company rethinking how businesses run customer-facing operations.

• #29 Christian Meermann - Backing Founders Before the Numbers Exist: Inside Cherry Ventures

  What does it take to identify exceptional founders before the numbers exist, and win the right to back them in an increasingly competitive venture market?