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Fred Jordan of FinalSpark (Switserland) and his team are building a revolutionary new kind of computer, out of human stem cells. The human brain is several orders of magnitude more energy efficient than silicon based computer, and Fred's team hopes to unlock those efficiencies for out-of-brain computation. They have opened up their platform up to research universities, and to the public, and we've pasted the link below. After having financed FinalSpark from the proceeds of his other business for years, Fred is currently raising EUR 50m to accelerate realising their vision.

Listen to this episode for lots of insights on

• Why the human brain is such an incredible processing machine
• How Fred and his team have been working towards replicating a human brain in a lab
• What it would mean if they manage to build a working and lasting biocomputer
• Why Fred is fundraising and what he expects to be able to achieve with it
• How Fred has built his other business AlpVision, and his lessons learned
• How Fred's journey as an entrepreneur has changed him, and his advice to others
• And please find a link to FinalSpark's biocomputing platform here: https://finalspark.com/live/

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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.

Pit Janssen of MedApp has exited his prescription medicine adherence and delivery company to the biggest, stock exchange listed, EUR 2.0bn market cap online pharmacy company in Europe. MedApp launched as a medication adherence app, and rolled out an integrated pharmacy with a delivery function in 2020. They bootstrapped the company with a students loans and IT consultancy work until 2017, at which point angels came in. After raising money from Tablomonto Ventures, M3 Ventures and Health Innovations, they were acquired by Shop Apotheke Europe (ETR: RDC) in 2021.

Listen to this episode for lots of insights on

• Innovation in the pharmacy business
• How oldschool pharma fought back
• How to bootstrap your company
• Finding hidden funding (!)
• The importance of a great co-founder
• What to look for in a co-founder
• How to exit your business to a multinational
• How life changed for Pit and this team after the acquisition
• Pit’s background, drive and values
• Parenting tactics for nurturing killer entrepreneurs

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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others.

Joel co-founded London-based Trubrics, which helps product teams track what’s happening inside LLM models. He and his co-founder founded the company when they saw companies investing heavily in LLM models but remaining in the dark on what is going on inside. They’ve just closed a pre-seed round, did their first hire and are about to launch their first version of the product to customers.

Amongst many other things we talked about

• Trubric’s pre-seed round
• LLMs and LLM applications
• His evolution from engineer to sales to CEO
• When to seek advice and when to ignore it
• The sales tactics Joel mastered
• Joels drive and values
• Joels first companies at age 13 (!)
• How Joel manages his confidence

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