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This episode talks to Dr. Titus Gebel about how Free Private Cities could fundamentally change the way we view government as a whole and force governments to compete for their citizens. We also explore why the structure of government hasn’t changed much throughout history and why democratic welfare states eventually all decline and create social unrest among their societies.

In this episode, I talk to Tony Ingesson about why the Swedish army was viewed as trigger-happy and insubordinate during the Bosnia war and was celebrated as war heroes, whereas the very disciplined and professional Dutch army forced the entire Dutch government to ultimately resign.

In this episode, I talk to industry legend Jon von Tetzchner about what it takes to compete in crowded markets. And we also explore how Microsoft felt threatened in its market dominance by his browser company and ultimately resorted to unethical business practices.

CRISPR is considered one of the biggest and most important scientific breakthroughs of the past decade and will probably remain the biggest science story for the foreseeable future. CRISPR could revolutionize everything from medicine to agriculture - and it has worked on every organism it’s been tried on. And with COVID-19 at our doorsteps, this is a perfect time to get acquainted with the powerful new gene-editing technology called CRISPR.

In this episode I caught up with Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez to talk about the criminal entrepreneurial and innovation skills of Mexican drug cartels, how they operate and what we can learn from them. Toward the end of this episode I also explain how cocaine is produced and what makes it so profitable. Then I show you how to setup your own drug empire, what skills and mentality you need to succeed in this industry, how to scale your business and what offshoring options you can use.

In today‘s episode I talk to Dr. Joachim Kuhn who is the CEO and founder of va-Q-tec - a very innovative company that produces highly efficient and space saving vacuum panels that insulate 10 times better than traditional insulators and will remain the best insulation material for the century. va-Q-tec has won the TOP 100 innovator award, has been the National Champion at the "European Business Awards" multiple times, made it into the TOP 10 of the GreenTec awards, along with so many other awards and recognitions that it would seriously take a half an hour to name them all.

This episode takes a deeper look at the much hated scamming industry, by exploring what types of scams there are, how the business model behind these scamming organizations work and how scamming has evolved over the years. My guest is Jim Browning, an IT professional who, in his spare time, investigates and fights scammers. He has been featured in the famous BBC documentary series “Panorama”, where he managed to infiltrate a large-scale technical support scamming operation, leading to world-wide press coverage along with arrests of the scammers involved.

In 2013 Herrmann Arnold (at that time CEO and shareholder of Haufe-umantis AG) voluntarily stepped down as a CEO and appointed a former intern for the CEO position, because he was convinced that he wasn‘t the right person to continue the next growth stage of his company. Many would view this as a colossal failure. Why the exact opposite is true, is something we discuss at length in this episode. In this episode we will answer some of the following questions: - Why my guest voluntarily stepped down as a CEO in order to give a former intern his position - How his successor and customers reacted to this decision - How a manager recognizes the point where he or she is not the right person anymore to continue to lead the company - What it felt like coming back to the company and working under the new CEO - How he handled the conflict of his successor implementing his ideas with success - Why more companies should think about limiting the terms of their CEOs - What he learned from letting his employees vote for managers and why he believes this might not be the solution for the future

This episode explores a special material called gallium nitride (GaN) that is not only a super efficient semiconductor, but is also changing the tech industry and is destined to disrupt the established silicon industry. GaN tech could save 10% of the electricity consumption in the US alone. And consumers can already purchase products using this high-tech material. To further explore this fascinating material, I interview the multi-award-winning professor Martin Kuball. This episode will explains: - What gallium nitride (GaN) is - The properties that make this material extraordinary - What advantages GaN has compared to silicon - How GaN is disrupting the silicon industry - What challenges there are when developing GaN devices - The common misconceptions people have about GaN and what aspects are over-hyped - What it really takes to go from research to a groundbreaking innovation and how much effort goes into producing next generation technologies - How our future could look like once GaN and next generations batteries are widely deployed - What types of skills researches need in order to go from research to product - And finally, the biggest surprises and breakthroughs my guest has had during his career as a scientist

In this episode we talk about the best innovator on the planet - nature and how we can learn and apply its ingenious solutions to solve some of the most challenging problems we humans face. We also explore some fascinating examples from the animal and insect kingdom and see how successful companies have applied these nature-inspired designs into their products. In this episode we talk about: - What biomimicry and biomimetics is - The best innovator on the planet - nature and what makes us humans more like apprentices than masters - Some fascinating biomimicry examples and applications - How companies can apply principles from nature to solve some of their most challenging problems - Concrete biomimicry projects and what types of results one can expect - A few misconceptions and over-hyped areas of biomimicry - Her top three recommendation for companies wanting to better leverage biomimicry in their products ...and much much more.

If you‘ve ever tried or are learning a language and haven‘t heard of Prof. Krashen and his theory on second language acquisition, then you‘re in for a real treat and this episode will certainly blow your mind with things you probably haven’t heard yet - and you’ll likely get addicted to language learning. To answer some of the following questions, I talk to award-winning Prof. Stephen Krashen, one of the most prolific and most frequently cited scholar in the field of language education: - Why current language learning programs are still largely ineffective and haven‘t fundamentally improved over the last decades and what we should be doing instead - How Krashen’s theory about language acquisition, despite it being over 40 years old, remains groundbreaking - We also debunk some of the most common and prevalent misconceptions about second language acquisition. Two of these being: Languages are acquired by speaking or that children acquire languages much more easily than adults. ...and much much more.

This episode talks to two of the founding members (Rebecca Beam & Chad Hahn) of Auticon. Auticon is an international technology consulting company, that exclusively employs adults on the autism spectrum as IT consultants. Of the 200 people employed there, around 150 are on the autism spectrum. auticon’s concept has been acknowledged internationally and has received numerous awards with Sir Richard Branson being on of auticon’s most prominent investors. We look at the untapped potential of autism and some of the misconceptions and challenges surrounding it, as well as where people on the spectrum outperform neurologically typical individuals. We also answer why not more companies are hiring people on the spectrum and move towards a more neurodiverse workforce and how auticon employs these individuals to solve some of the most complex problems for their clients. And finally, this interview makes the case for why hiring neurodiverse people will be the next big wave of innovation.