Commerce Talks with Alexander Graf

bunq Founder & CEO Ali Niknam shares how bunq is aiming to replace bank branches, what makes online banking secure and what challenges bunq is tackling right now.

MediaMarktSaturn has become Europe’s largest consumer electronics retail group, running around 1,000 stores in 14 countries (mostly as the market leader or number two) and employs 65,000 people. The company's CTO Atul Bhardwaj talks about their transformational journey in technology and why stores are sexy again. #11 Atul Bhardwaj - MediaMarkt/Saturn: consumer electronics by The WimLex Show is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Norman Nielsen is an expert in Performance Marketing who heads up the Global Content Marketing team at German online-fashion retailer Zalando. He has been working in the field of online marketing for over twelve years in a career that has taken him as far as New Delhi and put him at the helm of large digital-marketing teams at Axel Springer. Alex and Willem took the opportunity to speak to him on the fringes of the Emerce Update event in Amsterdam.

Having worked on the world’s first cell-cultured burger back in 2013, Daan was no stranger to lab-grown alternative meats before moving to the USA as a research strategist for New Harvest, a not- for-profit foundation to further cell-based agriculture. Having come up with a road-map for cultured meat, he has joined forces with Cambridge neurosurgery clinician Mark Kotter and founded Meatable with Krijn De Nood as CEO...

In this episode, Bart from Dept answers Alex’ questions about the making of Dept Agency. Bart's background in digital goes back to the mid-90s when, while he was studying physics at the University of Delft, his brother suggested they go into business to make money off of ‘this new internet thing’. And the rest, as they say, is history. Since then, Bart has taken care of technology while his brother has been the entrepreneurial frontman...

While he was studying for a degree in robotics engineering at the University of Delft, Julian‘s mother was suffering from sleep deprivation: and so he made it his mission to create robots to help people sleep better. The result is Somnox, a ‘sleep robot’ set to launch in late 2019. In this podcast, Alex and Willem ask Julian about biomedical data, hardware development, and the reasons why so many people are not getting enough sleep...

Picnic is currently one of the most exciting investment models in Europe (not only in the food sector). In an interview, founder Michiel Muller explains what distinguishes Picnic from other food delivery services and how, on the basis of these differences, a market share of 5% could be gained in the Netherlands in just three years and whether an international roll-out of the model can be expected in the short term.

Becoming a viral sensation overnight. Jordan flys all the way from Auckland to Amsterdam to tell you everything about his inspiring story. In 2015, he created his first comical parenting video, and since then, the ‘How to DAD’ videos have amassed over 220 million video views. Today, he can also add two “instructional” books to his portfolio and is followed by over two million people on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. How awesome is dad? Listen on iTunes: https://apple...

The secondary sneaker market has gone from an underground aficionado scene to a billion dollar industry. Lifelong sneakerhead and CEO of StockX Josh Luber saw an opportunity and created Campless, the Kelley Blue Book for sneakers, using data to determine the true market price of sneakers. StockX is a revolutionary live marketplace for buying and selling sneakers, streetwear, watches, and handbags...

Willem is the founder of Physee Technologies - a truly innovative company. Right after his physics degree from the Delft University of Technology, he came up with a groundbreaking idea for sustainability: At Physee, he invented "solar windows" - smart, electricity producing windows, which are likely to become the next standard of windows in the next few years...