Platforms 4 Future
44 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHello and welcome to Platforms 4 Future.
This podcast is about building / scaling B2B platform ventures and to help you to accelerate and de-risks your journey with practical tips and insights.
In our conversations we talk to founders, executives and experts uncovering what they experienced and learned building their ventures. But we also cover new trends like ecosystem strategies, IoT & data platforms, web3 and sustainability. This podcast is complementary to our platform innovation kit toolset and the Platform academy where you can find more tools and learning opportunities for you and your team.
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How Venture Studios are revolutionizing Corporate Innovation, with Dianna Lesage, the Venture Studio Advisor
March 08, 2024 11:40 - 43 minutes - 35.3 MBIn this episode of Platforms for Future, Diana Lesage discussed the role of Venture Studios in corporate innovation, differentiating them from accelerators and venture capital firms by their unique model of building companies from the ground up. She highlighted their growth in niches like FinTech and HealthTech, and the benefits of corporate venture building, where studios and large corporations collaborate to leverage each other's strengths. Diana emphasized the importance of clear expectati...
Coursera and the future of B2B Education, with Lukas Lewandowski, the Regional Director at Coursera
February 06, 2024 16:05 - 34 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this episode of Platforms for Future, Lukas Lewandowski, Regional Director at Coursera, discussed B2B education platforms. He highlighted Coursera's growth, its response to COVID-19, and the role of online learning. The conversation also touched on AI's impact on education, emphasizing the importance of trust and staying adaptable. Lukas advised platform leaders to embrace technologies like generative AI. The episode provided insights into the evolving education landscape and the need for ...
Past, Present and Future of IoT Platforms, with Hans-Michael Krause, Director Product Management ctrlX World Platform
January 11, 2024 07:57 - 36 minutes - 29.3 MBIn this episode of "Platforms 4 Future," we dive into the world of IoT platforms, specifically focusing on industrial applications. Join us as we explore the challenges and possibilities of implementing these technologies in a conservative industry. Our guest shares their experiences and insights, discussing the importance of trust, reliability, and building a successful platform in the IoT ecosystem. Don't miss out on this informative and thought-provoking discussion. Tune in now!
How to scale your business with embedded finance? with Christoph Schnettler, co-founder of DoKuMe, and Cyrosch Kalateh,
December 05, 2023 08:00 - 42 minutes - 34 MBEmbedded finance is a growing trend that has gained traction over the past decade. It refers to the integration of financial services into non-financial platforms or businesses. Traditionally, individuals or businesses would have to go directly to financial service providers to access services such as banking, payments, insurance, and collections. However, with embedded finance, these services are offered within platforms that users already interact with on a regular basis. One of the key ad...
P4F #21 / SE2 with Jens Weghake, Platform Portfolio Manager from d.velop AG
August 23, 2023 06:26 - 56 minutes - 45.5 MBHey everyone! Exciting news! 📢 We have a new episode of the Plattforms for Future Podcast, and this time it's in German! 🇩🇪🎙️ This episode of the "Platforms for Future" podcast is about B2B pricing and monetization. This is one of the most crucial topics and every platform needs to crack it. Monetize one side, two sides, pricing differently, commission fee, subscription fee, and so on. There are a lot of options, but which one is the best choice? Our guest, Jens Weghake from D.VELOP, a Ger...
P4F #20 / SE2 with Martha Boeckenfeld, Top100WomenOfTheFuture, Founder MarthaVerse, Meta-Host
June 08, 2023 07:15 - 44 minutes - 35.9 MBStep into the future with our latest episode featuring Martha Beckenfeld. We're exploring the fascinating world of the Web3 metaverse and its impact on platforms. One area where the Metaverse is already having a significant impact is in the platform economy. Platforms such as Amazon and eBay have disrupted and transformed industries, and now there are about 21 categories of platforms. The question is, how will the platform economy move and transform into the Web3 world? Here are three key t...
P4F #19 / SE2 with Jens Knodel, Head of Platform Engineering at Caruso, and Matthias Naab, Co-Founder Full Flamingo
May 15, 2023 13:01 - 38 minutes - 31.5 MBThe Caruso alliance was formed 25 years ago by the Tech Alliance, a company dedicated to cataloging data for spare parts. Drawing on their experience and success, the alliance decided to create a platform for accessing and harmonizing car data. The goal was to make it easier for customers to access and use the data they needed. The Caruso alliance has achieved this goal by harmonizing the data and the technical way of accessing the data. For example, they have created a unified data catalog,...
P4F #18 / SE2 with Martin Möller, CEO of DigiKoo
April 18, 2023 14:35 - 42 minutes - 34.5 MBDigiKoo is a platform that is revolutionizing the way we look at data and its potential to combat climate change. The CEO of DigiKoo, Martin Möller, is a passionate advocate for using data to promote sustainability and mitigate the effects of climate change. In this podcast episode, we will discuss how data platforms like DigiKoo can help ensure a successful climate transition. DigiKoo is a subsidiary of Westenergie AG, the largest regional energy service and infrastructure provider in Germa...
P4F #17 / SE2 with Gaétan Rougevin-Baville, CEO of Meero
March 28, 2023 08:38 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MBMeero has grown into a successful global platform that connects professional photographers and videographers with clients looking for high quality visual content. The platform was founded in 2016 and has quickly grown to become the largest on-demand photography service provider in the world, with over 100,000 photographers and videographers in over 100 countries. Part of the success story is the investment into own AI driven image improvement capabilities and services. Today, Meero's ambitio...
P4F #16 / SE2 with Peter Kraemer, Head of GaiaX
March 07, 2023 10:53 - 43 minutes - 35 MBData safety and privacy is a crucial topic around the world. We need to have sovereign options on the market that will allow us as consumers and as citizens to make self determined and well informed decisions on who can do what with my data, for how long and to what avail, to what purpose. Usually data protection is governed by nations and their legal bodies. But in digital ecosystems the boundaries are blurring more and more and therefore we need flexible technical solutions to go hand-in-h...
P4F #15 / SE2 with Eric Mangin, CEO, and Paul Thiroloix, CFO, of NooS
February 14, 2023 16:13 - 43 minutes - 34.9 MBNowadays, it is very crucial to address the challenges around impact on the planet and society. But how to implement it and engage everyone inside of your organization? The answer: Network Effects. In our latest episode of the PIK podcast we talked to Eric Mangin, CEO, and Paul Thiroloix, CFO, from French platform NooS about that topic. The platform NooS helps organizations to activate and engage with their employees in three ways - raise the awareness - provide education - and create ca...
P4F #14 / SE2 with Marc Geckeler & Dirk Voigt, Tech Lead & Biz Lead at Volkswagen
December 20, 2022 12:44 - 40 minutes - 32.9 MBThe story of DPP started 3 years ago. They went through a selection of partners, formed an alliance, listened to customers and onboarded a lot of plants. Transformation of a classical production company into a data driven platform is not an easy journey and therefore we have invited Marc Geckler, the Tech Lead and Dirk Voigt, the business lead from VolksWagen to share their success story. Data is always the most valuable asset and sharing it can be complex even among different plants of th...
P4F #13 / SE2 with Martin Peters, CEO of DropFriends
December 06, 2022 14:06 - 44 minutes - 35.9 MBWith dropfriends, everyone of us can become an independent parcel shop and make the delivery service much more comfortable and sustainable. How? Our guest, Martin Peters, the CEO of Dropfriends is going to explain to us in the latest episode of the “Platform 4 Future” podcast. Tune in to learn more about the multi-sided benefits for stakeholders and our planet. E.g. how you can become a paid parcel shop in seconds via mobile app to boost your household budget or how retailers can welcome mo...
P4F #12 / SE2 with Matthias Naab & Marcus Trapp of Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
November 21, 2022 17:28 - 52 minutes - 42.9 MBHow can we make the Mittelstand and the SMEs competitive in the industry of platforms? Our new guests are coming from the largest research organization in Europe - Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering. The main task of the Fraunhofer organization is to keep the German and European industry competitive or make them competitive. Common thinking is that platform and ecosystem economy is for digital giants or startups, but our guests Marcus Trapp and Matthias Naab together...
P4F #11 / SE2 with Tilmar Wilhelm Goos, Blockchain Expert
November 06, 2022 23:01 - 47 minutes - 38.2 MBWeb 3, Blockchain, Crypto, Decentralized Finance are currently the most discussed topics in the business world. To get some more understanding we have invited as guest of this Episode a specialist in this field - Tilmar Wilhelm Goos, Swiss based international tax and business specialist, speaker at conferences and universities an author of the book “Banking Bitcoins Taxation — The handbook of international money management and digital assets”. Nowadays, in Web 2, everything is client orient...
P4F #10 / SE2 with Friedrich Fries-Henrich, Founder of Circulania
September 19, 2022 15:11 - 46 minutes - 37.6 MBHow to create interest from your target customers about your #marketplace? In this #podcast episode of #PlatformsForFuture, @Nathalie Dumas and @Matthias Walter interviewed @Friedrich Fries-Henrich, founder of @Circulania, a B2B platform for secondary raw materials, enabling companies to sell their industrial waste material as new products. When they started, Friedrich and his associate thought it would be easy to replicate an eBay for steel materials but they underestimated that the B2B m...
P4F #09 / SE2 with Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner, professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
September 07, 2022 07:49 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MBThere are a lot of corporates exploring Blockchain and DLT technologies to enable new collaborative business models - but only a few are successful. In our conversation with Prof. Philipp Sandner from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, he reveals the latest trends of development of Blockchain in the B2B sector. Philipp is one of the leading heads in Germany when it comes to Blockchain, recognized speaker and advisor. As we see the rise of demand for NFT, Metaverse etc. it is impo...
P4F #08 / SE2 with Leo Michellier & Paul Beguerie, Digital Product Owner + Project Manager of Organix by SUEZ
August 22, 2022 11:39 - 44 minutes - 36.3 MBA great example of how #platforms can support #circulareconomy : Organix by Suez is a #marketplace which connects producers of organic waste (farmers, food industry manufacturers, ports, municipalities…) with biogas plants, which transform them into energy. They combine two challenges: #wastemanagement and the production of local and #renewableenergy, with a huge market opportunity as almost 4 million tons of food industry biowaste is produced each year in France. In this episode, we interv...
P4F #07 / SE2 with Kathrin Günther, Vice President at Business Solutions at Uhlmann PAC-Systems
August 09, 2022 08:44 - 52 minutes - 42.9 MBPexcite is a future-oriented ecosystem for intertwined software solutions alongside the entire value chain of pharmaceutical products – from raw material to the end customer. Our guest Kathrin Günther, the Vice President of Business Unit Digital Solutions in Uhlmann Pac-Systeme, has revealed a great history about how machine building companies have joined their forces to create a software solution. The most challenging part of Pexcite journey was to build up an awareness and sense that the...
P4F #06 / SE2 with Florian Klemt, Co-founder & CTO of Fashion Cloud platform
July 25, 2022 13:06 - 47 minutes - 38.2 MBFashion Cloud is a B2B platform, helping fashion brands and retail stores to work together through data sharing. In this episode, you will learn about: How they pivoted from a B2C application project into a B2B platforms used by the biggest German brands, How they manage to scale based on trust and company culture, The crazyness of their recruitment process. The complete episode can be listened on your favorite podcast provider. #platforms4future
P4F #05 / SE2 with Frank Mattes, Expert in corporate business-building. Advisor (up to Fortune 10). Author.
July 11, 2022 14:51 - 48 minutes - 39.7 MBScaling corporate start-up? Where to begin? Frank Mattes, experienced expert in corporate business building brought the major input to this topic in 2018 together with other 20 clients. The first book was called “Scaling Up Corporate Startups”, it focuses on one question: How can large companies generate business impact from non-incremental innovation? The complete episode can be listened on your favorite podcast provider. #platforms4future
P4F #04 / SE2 with Adrien Chaltiel, CEO & Co-founder at Eldorado
July 05, 2022 07:30 - 47 minutes - 38.5 MBDo your stakeholders think that your business is legitimate? We often ask ourselves whether we are legitimate enough but we barely ask the same question at the company level. Eldorado, a french platform facilitating the connection between entrepreneurs and investors, managed to raise faster than other similar platforms by using growth hacking and legitimization methods. In just three years, they built a brand to look like a 10 years old expertise brand. In this episode, we give you a few...
P4F #03 / SE2 with Katharina Hölzle, Director IAT, University of Stuttgart & Fraunhofer IAO & Marc Brechtel, PhD student
June 27, 2022 12:50 - 52 minutes - 42.6 MBThe latest emerging trends in the market of platforms is a creation of a platform by multiple companies together and data platforms, therefore for today's conversation we have invited two researchers: Katharina Hölzle a professor for Technology Management and Human Factors at the University of Stuttgart, leading the institute for human factors and technology management (IAT) as well as the Fraunhofer IAO and Marc Brechtel - Project Manager for Advanced Product Development in Freudenberg Filtr...
P4F #02 / SE2 with Denis Tischler, Chief Digital Marketing Manager of Wind-Turbine.com
June 13, 2022 13:16 - 54 minutes - 44.4 MBDenis Tishler, Chief Marketing Officer at wind-turbine, unveils how the company went from a usual marketplace with no industry expertise, to being leaders of a niche ecosystem. When they started in 2012 in Germany, wind-turbine.com was pretty much as any usual online marketplace, helping sellers and buyers of second hand wind turbines to get in touch. Today they are the world's leading B2B platform in the wind industry, with 25K users a month in over 200 countries. #platforms4future
P4F #01 / SE2 with Alessandro Pistillo, Director Digital Strategy of BASF
May 29, 2022 22:01 - 53 minutes - 43.6 MBKicking of our series 2 of the “Platforms 4 Future” podcast with a chemical industry powerhouse and dinosaur - BASF. It’s the world leading chemical company with about 110.000 employees worldwide, 10% of them within R&D department spending 2 billion on innovation each year. More importantly, almost everything on our lives is based on chemicals so you can image the impact of such a company has on our lives and our planet. There is no better place to drive sustainability with a massive impact. ...
P4F #017 with Henrik Hahn, CDO of Evonik Industries & CEO of Evonik Digital
November 11, 2021 09:40 - 48 minutes - 39.2 MBIn our current podcast episode, we look at an aspect that doesn't come up so often in our conversations: the closing of a B2B platform. For this, we caught up with Henrik Hahn from Evonik Industries. Henrik is Chief Digital Officer of the Evonik Group and CEO of Evonik Digital. In his role, he initiated the development of a marketplace in 2017 - an absolute novelty in the very traditional chemical industry. 3 years later, however, the platform is already history. Why Evonik abandoned the i...
P4F #016 with Thilo Kassen, Executive manager of Prisma
August 05, 2021 20:40 - 28 minutes - 23.3 MBIn our latest Episode we were very pleased to welcome Thilo Kassen, Executive Manager of PRISMA Capacity, the leading gas capacity platform in Europe. Together with Thilo we discussed the interesting shareholder model behind the company and how sustainability and climate change affect the future gas market in the long run. PRISMA Capacity is acting as the leading gas capacity trading platform in Europe. Within their marketplace they offer the possibility to easily auction transmission gas ca...
P4F #015 with Henrik Lauridsen - Founder & Managing Director of Gerbus Academy & Peter Evans - Managing Partner at PSI
July 21, 2021 13:10 - 46 minutes - 37.7 MBPlatforms are an important topic for each company strategy. But we see in our projects a big knowledge gap on executive / leader level but also on team level. Companies think they can build platforms just like they built products. There was a study from BITKOM in 2019 showing this gap -> only 5% of Executives understand this topic and have the skills to lead those initiatives. We want to explore what kind of roles and skills are required to build & scale a platform. How to educate future plat...
P4F #014 with Evangelos Avramakis, head of digital ecosystems R&D, Swiss Re Instiute
July 02, 2021 07:20 - 36 minutes - 29.5 MBEvangelos Avramakis is a recognised thought leader and advisor in the field of insurance industry. At the Swiss Re institute he works with focus on digital and consumer related topics as the Head of Digital Ecosystems R&D. Within his position, he analyses the mid- and long term developments of emerging technologies and business models. Covering both digitization and business developments Evangelos has also huge knowledge and insights about the evolution of platforms and ecosystems which we ar...
P4F #014 with Evangelos Avramakis, head of digital ecosystem R&D part of the research arm of swissRE
July 02, 2021 07:20 - 36 minutes - 29.5 MBEvangelos Avramakis is a recognised thought leader and advisor in the field of insurance industry. At the Swiss Re institute he works with focus on digital and consumer related topics as the Head of Digital Ecosystems R&D. Within his position, he analyses the mid- and long term developments of emerging technologies and business models. Covering both digitization and business developments Evangelos has also huge knowledge and insights about the evolution of platforms and ecosystems which we ar...
P4F #013 with Prof. Dr. Julian Kawohl, HTW Berlin
June 18, 2021 14:50 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MBJulian Kawohl is a Professor for Strategic Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. He is also the founder of the Ecosystemizer framework, a methodology - similar to the Platform Innovation Kit - which helps managers intuitively understand ecosystems, set up ecosystem strategies and position themselves in such ecosystems.
P4F #012 with Thomas Müller, Co-Founder & CEO of evan.network
June 04, 2021 07:45 - 44 minutes - 36.1 MBStarted in 2018, Evan GmbH is a german tech-start up operating the Evan Network as an enterprise blockchain infrastructure focused on manufacturing companies. With this blockchain technology, Evan provides a base for building trust in digital partner networks as well as enabling corporate solutions for the economy of things. Thomas Müller, CEO and co-founder of Evan, has spent a long time in the area of digital business and brings a lot of experience in blockchain technologies. That’s why w...
P4F #011 with Markus Schorn, Author of 10x DNA
May 14, 2021 12:05 - 41 minutes - 33.8 MBMarkus Schorn is a member of the Deutsche Telekom Think Tank with focus on emerging technologies, innovations and business models. Within this role, he asked himself how technologies will impact our future lives and society. His book “10x DNA - Das Mindset der Zukunft”, which he wrote together with Frank Thelen, also revolves around this topic. It’s focusing on the acceleration of the technological process and the upcoming changes but also kind of a “wake-up call” to make sure that we keep up...
P4F #010 with Philipp Ortwein, CEO of Instafreight
April 30, 2021 16:00 - 46 minutes - 38.1 MBToday, instrafreight is one of the leading platforms for B2B logistics in the european market. With focus on overland freight, instafreight matches the emerging transportation needs of shippers with the transport capacity of the carriers. Started in 2016 they faced an exciting journey from their first MVP to today's platform with about 2000 shippers on the demand side and 25.000 carrier companies on the supply side. In our conversation with Philipp Ortwein, CEO and Co-Founder, he gave us a l...
P4F #009 with Adrien Nussenbaum, Co-Founder & U.S. CEO of Mirakl
April 16, 2021 20:15 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MBIn our conversation with Adrien Nussenbaum, Co-Founder and U.S. CEO of Mirakl, he gave us lots of insights and key success factors regarding the 3 lifestages of a platform, how to set up a platform initiative as an incumbent company and how platforms can create a more sustainable business.
P4F #008 with Christian Warneck, VP & Head of Airlines Solutions Central & Eastern Europe at Amadeus
April 01, 2021 22:05 - 30 minutes - 25.1 MBIn our newest episode, we talked to Chritian Warneck - VP of Amadeus, the platform to connect the travel ecosystem about the challenges of market entry and intermediation when it comes to building a platform for the travel business. Additionally, we learned a lot about the role of data and AI for todays and the future industry and why it is extremely important to keep innovating as a platform leader.
P4F #007 with Christian Neumann, CEO of Tapio
March 11, 2021 23:01 - 37 minutes - 30.3 MBIn our newest episode we talked to Christian Neumann, Managing Director of Tapio, the open ecosystem for the wood industry, about his most important learnings and keys to success when it comes to building an Win-Win-Win ecosystem. Tune-in to learn more why technology is not a key success factor, how to set up the right governance structures and how to enforce sustainability by collaboration and co-creation.
P4F #006 with Simon Tüchelmann, CEO of Kreatize
February 25, 2021 22:15 - 45 minutes - 37 MBIn this conversation we explored together with Simon Tüchelmann, CEO of kreatize, how to platformize manufacturing due to unbundling of production & supply chain capacities. Kreatize is a leading platform and known as the AWS for manufacturing. But not only that it helps companies to build resilient supply chains, it also is a big driver for a more sustainable future. A fantastic conversation and great source of insights for every B2B platform builder.
P4F #005 with Josef Brunner, CEO of relayr
February 12, 2021 08:40 - 36 minutes - 29.4 MBIn our latest conversation with Josef Brunner, CEO of leading IoT platform relayr, we talked about key success factors for building a platform business. And he was clear right from the beginning that it is not about technology, it’s about focusing on outcomes for the customers and to understand market transformations. Only when you understand bigger trends and market shifts you can build a platform business to be ready at the right time at the right market.
P4F #004 with Sebastian Brenner, CEO of CheMondis
January 28, 2021 23:01 - 38 minutes - 31.1 MBThrough a conversation with Sebastian Brenner, CEO of CheMondis, we explored how an incumbent company like Lanxess executed a platform strategy and launched the leading B2B platform in the chemical industry .
P4F #004 with Sebastian Brenner, CEO & Founder of Chemondis
January 28, 2021 23:01 - 38 minutes - 30.8 MBThrough a conversation with Sebastian Brenner, CEO and co-founder of Chemondis, we explored how an incumbent company like Lanxess executed a platform strategy and launched the leading B2B platform in the chemical industry .
P4F #003 with Adam Broadway, CEO of platformOS
January 14, 2021 23:05 - 48 minutes - 39.1 MBHow to leverage communities to unlock network effects. Through a conversation with Adam Broadway, CEO and co.founder of platformOS, a leading innovation platform, we explore the role and impact of communities on growth and network effects.
P4F #002 with Malte Zur, CEO / Co-Founder of testxchange
December 18, 2020 08:45 - 43 minutes - 35.5 MBIn todays episode, Nathalie and myself are welcoming Malte Zur, Managing Director of testxchange. testXChange is Europes leading marketplace for industrial testings and helps product companies to find providers for testing, inspection and certification services - revolutionizing the testing industry. There are about 50.000 laboratories in Europe - about 7.000 of them are on the platform Today we will talk about a special theme “Marketplace enabled SaaS” - so how a marketplace can be a comp...
P4F #001with Lars Schade, Managing Director of Mercateo Group
November 30, 2020 14:50 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBMercateo is Europe’s largest B2B platform; in this open discussion with Managing Director Lars Schade, we explored how the company unlocks network effects and leverages them to build defensibility against Amazon. Lars also shared with us how he leverages data and product information to give customers the possibility of more sustainable product purchases.