Grant Blaisdell was born in California. Creates Everywhere—co-founder at Coinfirm, Copernic Space, and Soul at GBsavant.
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The Edge | From high frequency trading to permaculture
Founder at Adam Grows Eden, Owner at Steak Club, and permaculture expert. Regenerative agriculture can withstand extreme weather events, maximize bio-diversity, rehydrate landscapes, and create a stable, sustainable society. Thus, allowing humans to co-exist with nature. Adam researches, travels the world, and believes regenerative agriculture had no negative downsides!
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The Edge | Toss a coin to your Witcher. Oh, valley of plenty!
Karol Żbikowski, CEO of Platige Image, is our guest to talk about "From financial world to the witcher universe" Platige Image is the company behind visual effects at international projects such as "The Witcher," "Vikings," "Love, Death & Robots," "The Rain" to name a few. Karol, a manager with over 20 years of experience, graduated from the Foreign Trade Department of the Warsaw School of Economics.
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The Edge | The most disruptive forces of the modern workplace
Mathias Asberg is a technology theorist with a talent for breaking down complex processes. Serial entrepreneur turned investor with a passion for AI & cutting-edge system architecture. He co-founded Nextgrid, an investment company focusing on business-building products based on Reinforcement & Deep Learning—co-founder of Deep Learning Labs, a series of RL & DL recurring hackathons.
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The Edge | How Consumer Insights can drive innovation
Traditionally, consumers have been brought into the innovation process primarily to validate new product concepts. On the other hand, pioneers of design thinking are now soliciting consumer insights and ideas to jump-start the fuzzy front end of the innovation process. According to a Business Week report, Getting good consumer insight is the fourth most cited obstacle to innovation for the world's most innovative enterprises. The old methodology of trawling through quantitative and focus group research reports is outdated, and the idea that 'consumers can't innovate' is being turned upside down.
Conventional consumer research is no longer enough to create a competitive edge. This approach has forced many enterprises to think more creatively about how and when they engage with their customers. Increasingly, businesses are trying more radical and innovative approaches to gain upfront ideas and inspiration from consumers rather than just falling back on traditional methods.
Michael Aechtler, Head of Innovation Services at Drees & Sommer
Michael Aechtler has been Head of Innovation Services at Drees & Sommer SE since February 2019. He is also the founder of Next Entrepreneurs Organization gUG, in which Generation Z develops innovative solutions for the future together with startups. Previously, Michael Aechtler was Head of the Startups & Young Business Committee at the IHK Region Stuttgart. He also gained experience as a consultant at MOSAIQ MEDIA GmbH and LINGNER Consulting New Media GmbH.
About The edge | A journey towards entrepreneurship
Ernest Shackleton ran an ad in the newspaper to recruit men for his endurance expedition: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in the event of success.”
Like Shackleton’s expedition, a journey toward entrepreneurship is also hazardous, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness, and all happen on the edge of a precipice. During The Edge Podcast™, we sit with entrepreneurs and experts to explore their journey and learn from the successes and mistakes of those on the edge of success.
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