A chat with Séverine Nolf, CEO and co-founder at Pleasefix.ai

A chat with Séverine Nolf, CEO and co-founder at Pleasefix.ai

Robin Wauters sat down with @Séverine Nolf on the Syndicate One podcast.  "Every day building my own company is so many learnings. I really don't see it as a risk." 📍 Speed is the one structural advantage startups have over incumbents. Séverine's rule: be a first adopter in everything, without exception. 🔄 On being a female founder across tech, finance and consulting: she does not dwell on the barrier. When people underestimated her, delivering flipped the bias into a strength. 🇧🇪 Ambitious people in Belgium no longer need to leave to build something global. The risk is not starting. It is the compounding of learnings you miss by waiting.

A chat with Sébastien Deletaille, CEO and co-founder at Rosa

Robin Wauters sat down with @Sebastien Deletaille on the Syndicate One podcast "I like the idea that with few people, you can build something that scales and impacts millions." 📍 Great teams on the wrong market go nowhere. Sebastien watched sharper engineers than him get outpaced by someone on a better wave. Market choice, he argues, is what separates the top league from the rest. 🔄 On picking investors: skip the success stories. Talk to the founders who returned one and a half times. They are the ones who will tell you what a fund is really like when things get hard. 🇧🇪 On ecosystems: cities work because proximity creates serendipity. What Ghent built, Brussels can replicate, but it needs participants, not just leaders.

A chat with Laurent Hublet, Brussels Minister for Employment, Economy, and Digital Economy

Robin Wauters sat down with Laurent Hublet on the Syndicate One podcast: "I have 1,200 days to deliver impact. My focus is making the best out of every one of them." 📍 Laurent Hublet got a call on a Friday the 13th and had an hour to decide whether to become Brussels Minister for Economy, Employment and Digital Economy. He called his wife from a client call and said yes. 🔄 Six weeks later, his team had compressed a three-month budget process into five weeks, hired staff from scratch, and launched a government that Brussels had been waiting 18 months for. 🇧🇪 Brussels is one of the five largest power centers in the world, which makes what happens here on cyber, AI and democratic governance matter well beyond the city limits.

A chat with Serge Morel, co-founder and CTO at Powernaut

Serge Morel, co-founder and CTO at Powernaut, is reinventing how energy systems work from Wintercircus (where else?). He talks us through: 🚀 Getting top talents to join and work toward the bigger purpose 🌎 How remote hiring helps bring diversity into a (local) bubble 📌 How growth also comes from product breadth, ... and more!

A chat with Kimia Namadchi, co-founder and CEO at CurveCatch

Kimia Namadchi, co-founder and CEO of CurveCatch, joined Robin Wauters on our podcast and unpacked: 📌 How CurveCatch identified and now tackles a massively overlooked problem: the fact that around 80% of bra-wearers may be wearing the wrong size, and why the solution lies in data and better guidance. ☺️ How CurveCatch evolved from supporting their family-run brick-and-mortar bra shops into a (very) fast-growing startup, backed by Y Combinator. 🚨 The bright sides of being a female founder, building a company with your life partner, and challenging the odds 💪