Beginner's Mind

Business & Economics Podcasts

Blueprints for Builders and Investors Hosted by Christian Soschner From pre-seed to post-IPO, every company—especially in deep tech, biotech, AI, and climate tech—lives or dies by the frameworks it follows. On Beginner’s Mind, Christian Soschner...

Episodes

Alasdair Milton, KPMG | Why Precision Medicine Still Fails Patients (SPARK20 – 168)

#176 - Why Smart People Say Yes: 7 Lessons from Influence by Robert Cialdini

EP 175: Stefanie Schubert | Why Smart People Lose Negotiations Before They Start

EP 174: Wanwipa Siriwatwechakul | Funding the Next Industrial Era

EP 173: Bret Kugelmass | The West Bet on the Wrong Energy Future

#172 - Fast Forward Thinking: Why Most Investments Fail — And How Elite VCs Think Differently

EP 171 - Björn Cochlovius: Why Brilliant Biotech Breaks at Manufacturing

EP 170 - Jim Pulcrano: Why Most Venture Capital Fails And What Europe Still Gets Wrong

EP 169 - Why New Year’s Goals Fail by February - Even for Disciplined People

EP 168 - Alasdair Milton: The Innovation Inflection Point: Why 70% of Cures Never Reach Patients

#167: Pattern Breakers — 7 Laws Behind Category-Defining Companies

SPARK20 – 156: Janos Pasztor | The Climate Diplomat Who Refuses to Give Up on Humanity

EP 166 - Karl Nehammer: Why Europe Fails to Scale – And How the EIB Plans to Fix It

EP 165 – Jason Foster: 153 Rejections Later — What Every Founder Must Learn About Resilience

EP 164 - Kat Kozyrytska: AI in Pharma Is a Yesterday Problem – Why Ethical Frameworks Can’t Wait

#163: The NVIDIA Way — 7 Scaling Lessons from Jensen Huang’s Playbook

Marc Penkala | Why Being Wrong is the Secret to Venture Success (SPARK20 – 139)

EP 162 - Alex Oppenheimer: The Secret Investors Use Before Writing the First Check

EP 161 - Enis Hulli: VC Secrets Exposed: Why Only US-Based Startups Dominate (and How to Beat the Odds)

EP 160 - Vadim Fedotov: Elevate Your Wellbeing: How Data-Driven Choices Create Peak Performance