Leap Takers

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Displaying all 3 Episode of Leap Takers with the tag “germany”.

Episode 20: Alina Bassi - How Kleiderly creates sustainable plastics made from textile waste

Episode | November 20th, 2020 | 37 mins 17 secs

accelerators, berlin, entrepreneurship, fashion, germany, startups, sustainability

Alina Bassi is the founder and CEO of Kleiderly. Kleiderly is converting old clothing into a new and sustainable material to reduce the world’s fashion footprint.
Episode 11: Sebastian Wahl & Carl-Philipp von Polheim - The story of mybacs and how to start a direct-to-consumer company

Episode | December 31st, 2019 | 35 mins 24 secs

consumer product, direct-to-consumer, entrepreneurship, germany, health, reading, startups, switzerland, travel

Sebastian Wahl and Carl-Philipp von Polheim are the founders of mybacs.
Mybacs is a direct-to-consumer (D2C), research driven, biotechnology company for gut-health products based in Zug (Switzerland) and Munich (Germany).
Episode 10: Holger Seim - The origin story of Blinkist, growing to 11 million users, and creating a unique company culture

Episode | November 18th, 2019 | 48 mins 34 secs

berlin, blinkist, books, culture, entrepreneurship, germany, marketing, reading, startups, travel