meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Times Tech Podcast

Tradeshift's Christian Lanng: “Covid-19 has created a generation of zombie companies”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Sunday Times tech correspondent brings on Christian Lanng, founder of Tradeshift, to talk about relocating to Alaska (3:30), remote working (6:30), creating Tradeshift (9:30), becoming a unicorn (13:30), what is happening in supply chains with Covid 19 (14:30), why the UK is underperforming (15:45), why companies need early repayment (19:00), when he saw the first signs of slowdown (22:30), how the pandemic could lead to ‘multi-shoring’ (25:30), the end of the high street (31:40), how he started out in Denmark (35:35), why traditional venture capital isn’t the best option (38:10), his worst day of work (40:45), why no one understands how software works (41:40), and paying hackers (43:20).

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Yo, technology.

0:03.0

What is it all about?

0:04.0

If you are founded today, you need to build some financial literacy really, really fast on how to do these structures.

0:10.0

Because the amount of value you leave on the table is immense.

0:13.0

If you don't think through that, that ownership structure for the long run.

0:21.6

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and

0:26.3

inside the minds of the top people in tech.

0:28.9

How are you doing?

0:31.2

Here we are.

0:32.7

Another week.

0:34.3

I don't know about you, but I feel like life has become a bit like Groundhog Day. Like every

0:40.2

day is the same. At least in my case, I get up, I feed the kids, take my son, my older son to

0:46.6

daycare, which is open now and hopefully stays open. Work all day, pick them up, then dinner time,

0:52.8

bedtime, and then I go back to work. But the

0:55.3

variety of life is, in many ways, just gone. I don't go to the store. I rarely see friends.

1:01.7

We're all fine and safe and healthy, but it is a bizarre setup where you're mostly homebound

1:08.2

and in a way that's like kind of never really experienced before.

1:12.4

Of course, I recognize that this, of course, is a very privileged position we have,

1:17.5

but it's all just very strange.

1:21.1

Anyhow, that's all a very roundabout way to introduce this week's guest,

1:26.8

who is here to tell us what is actually happening out there in the world to big

1:31.5

businesses, small businesses, governments, everyone really.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Will Morley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Will Morley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.