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The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

First Time Founders with Ed Elson – How This German Founder Built The Nation’s Most Valuable Startup

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Vox Media Podcast Network

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ed speaks with Alex Rinke, co-founder and co-CEO of Celonis, a process mining and intelligence company. They discuss how his management style evolved as the company scaled, the challenges facing Europe’s startup scene, and his advice for founders navigating the fundraising process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.7

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0:26.0

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0:30.1

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0:34.3

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0:44.1

Alex partners to get straight to the point and deliver results when it really matters.

0:50.2

Amazon Pharmacy presents painful thoughts.

0:55.0

The guy in front of me in the pharmacy line is halfway through an incredibly detailed 17-minute story about his gout, a story likely more painful than the gout itself.

1:09.8

Next time, save yourself the pain and let Amazon Pharmacy deliver your meds right to your door.

1:15.5

Amazon Pharmacy, healthcare just got less painful.

1:20.4

Scott, why are there so few unicorns in Europe?

1:23.9

Oh, wow, we're going to need a bigger boat.

1:26.2

I get asked out a lot here. One, it starts with

1:29.1

immigrants, and that is the example I use on a mass out in London is that my father in Glasgow and

1:35.2

my mother in London, in their, you know, like when they were 19 and 23, left and took a chance to come to

1:42.1

America. So, risk-taking, a crazy idea that are willing to kind of give up a good career or great prospects

1:51.8

and take a chance on a crazy idea that might become crazy genius, we just have more of that

1:56.8

secret sauce than anyone in the world.

1:58.5

We have the best universities in the world.

2:00.7

I've said often that you can't find a $50 billion plus company

2:05.1

in tech that isn't a bike ride from a world-class

2:08.7

engineering university, and we have most of them.

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