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#40 · February 6, 2025

40. Profitable sustainability with AI- all just Buzzwords?: Interview with Ferolabs co-founder Berk Birand

In a world increasingly aware of climate urgency, how can artificial intelligence become a practical tool for sustainability—not just a buzzword? In this episode, Berk Birand, co-founder and CEO of Fero Labs, tells us about their vision, where AI doesn’t just optimize processes—it reshapes entire industries. Berk and his co founding (Alp Kucukelbir & Pamir Ozbay) teams focus is on bridging academia and industry, overcoming skepticism toward AI, and promoting profitable sustainability. He has enc

#16 · February 15, 2023

16: Zerofy - simplifies a zero-carbon life for households. Interview with founder Till Quack

Till Quack is the Co-Founder of Zerofy, a company who's vision is to simplify a zero-carbon life for households.A Swiss entrepreneur and product builder passionate about using technology to help improve people’s lives, Till studied at and holds a PhD in Computer Vision from ETH Zurich. Throughout his career, he has built technology products at startups including kooaba (co-founded, exited to Qualcomm) and Mapillary (exited to Facebook Meta), as well as at major tech companies like Apple, Meta, a

#10 · July 21, 2022

10: From for-profit into impact entrepreneur. Interview with Christian Vollmann - founder C1

Christian Vollmann (born 1977) is a passionate entrepreneur. He has successfully founded several companies (iLove, MyVideo, eDarling) and most recently established nebenan.de, a social network for good neighbourhoods. Connecting 2.5 million neighbours in 10,000 neighbourhoods throughout Germany, helping each other and thus strengthening the centre of society. Christian also invests in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. He was involved in over 80 start-ups (e.g. SumUp, Trivago, Inkitt, and many more