Venture Lab with Luis

The greatest opportunities are often hidden behind closed doors. This podcast opens them up. After seven years in a different industry, last year I developed a strange obsession with startups and venture capital. I consumed every podcast, video, and book I could find.And while entrepreneurship does not need another podcast, it desperately needs transparency, accessibility, and conversations that go beyond funding rounds and exits. Venture Lab tells the personal stories of Europe's most exceptional investors and most innovative founders.

Venture Lab with Luis is a business podcast hosted by Luis Druschke, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Luis Druschke hosts Venture Lab with Luis, a business show with 15 episodes published.

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  Episode #15

  Inside Wonder Studio: Building the Y Combinator of Hollywood

  Mar 23, 202644 minS1

  <p>Xavier grew up moving countries five times. That instability drilled into him one obsession: control your own destiny. That mission carried him from law school in Sydney, through three unicorns, Uber, Deliveroo, and Turo, to an encounter over rosé at the Cannes Film Festival.An Alice in Wonderland trailer created with AI was the lightning bolt that led him to co-found Wanda Studios, an AI-native studio for films and music videos. In under a year, he raised $15M from Atomico and LocalGlobe, worked with Lewis Capaldi, built a team across London, New York and LA, and assembled a four-pillar f...

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  Episode #15

  From Poetry to Deep Tech: How Europe Builds the Next Tesla I Will Wells, Speedinvest

  Mar 5, 202629 minS1

  <p>Will grew up in a family of shipbuilders, naturalists, and war heroes, a family legacy that, drilled into him one simple principle: have a go, do something that helps people. That mission carried him from a poetry degree to a hedge fund, through a cancer diagnosis at 29, to become a deep tech founder and then deep tech investor with one obsession: swing the bat on something that actually matters.</p><p>Then at Lightspeed and Firstminute Capital, he worked with teams that invested in SpaceX, Anthropic, Wayve and Mistral before he became a partner at Speedinvest. </p><p>In t...

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  Episode #14

  How General Catalyst’s $43B Venture Strategy Actually Works I Zeynep Yavuz

  Feb 19, 202633 minS1

  <p>Zeynep grew up in Turkey in an entrepreneurial family and from an early age absorbed their persistence, bias for action, and an understanding of what it really takes to build a business. That observation became her mission: not to start a company, but to be a partner to the founders. Her path to General Catalyst was not a straight line, investment banking, private equity at TA Associates, and a split-second decision to turn down a VC offer to go into operating instead. Today she is a Partner at one of the world's most influential venture firms, with $43 billion under...

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  Episode #13

  How I built a Venture Fund from Scratch at 27 I Bastian Larsen I E13

  Jan 22, 202643 minS1

  <p>Bastian Larsen went from co-leading product strategy for a $10B hedge fund at BlackRock to building his own venture capital firm with zero VC experience. Learn how he:</p><p>- Raised $25M from 65 LPs without a network.</p><p>- Pitched a non-existent fund and closed deals.</p><p>- Used persistence over credentials to break into VC.</p><p>- Applied "Keep It Simple" to avoid years of overthinking.</p><p><br></p><p>For aspiring VCs, founders, and anyone thinking about leaving corporate to start something.Topics: venture capital career, VC fundraising strategy, leaving BlackRock, startup i...

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  Episode #9

  Building Yonder: The 10-Year Founder Journey Nobody Talks About I Tim Chong, Yonder

  Dec 11, 202541 minS1

  <p>Tim Chong, founder and CEO of Yonder, reveals how he went from a Single room apartment in London during COVID lockdown to building one of Europe's fastest-growing consumer fintechs competing against billion-dollar incumbents like American Express, Visa, and Mastercard. We cover the hidden cost of the founder journey, surviving Silicon Valley Bank's collapse with £12M trapped, and why "foodies in London" beat big TAM thinking.In this episode, Tim shares:- The real price of startup life that nobody talks about. - Silicon Valley Bank collapsed with £12M in their account right after closing Series A- The sticky tape to...

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