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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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.

Meet one of Europe’s most driven impact entrepreneurs: Kees Aarts, founder of Protix. Protix is an insect protein company founded to radically reduce the environmental footprint of our food system and help stop the loss of biodiversity in our seas. Kees and his team started out 14 years ago, and today they are the world leader in insect ingredients, running the largest insect farm ever built. Their mission is to bring the food system back into balance with nature. There were many gems in this conversation, amongst many other things we discussed:

• Kees trigger to start Protix
• Kees first year as a founder
• Kees philosophy for success: Evolve every single day
• Key moments of evolution in his personal and professional life
• Kees analysis of why wealth can make a country less innovative
• Kees thoughts on the business climate in the Netherlands
• Kees thoughts on artificial intelligence and the future of our species

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