How has the global startup ecosystem changed? Torsten Kolind: CEO & Cofounder YouNoodle

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. Today I interviewed Torsten Kohlland, who is the co founder and CEO of unodle. I'll let him explain more about what that is, but this is a really exciting interview for me because Torsten knows the global startup scene very intimately and he's been doing this for a while and so it was really exciting. And also what I liked about this episode is that he has a background in science as well. So we were able to geek out on that. Learned a lot about the role universities play, the role other large companies play in acquisitions of startups, but also in terms of sharing information with startups and kind of building relationships and just the global nature of startup ecosystem. Really interesting interview. If you like this interview, please find us on itunes by searching for Crazy Wisdom and hitting the subscribe button. And if you really like it, I would be very humbled if you could leave a review. If you have been listening to this podcast for a while, I'd really appreciate it if you could go ahead and leave us a review and tell your friends about this podcast. I'm about to map the entire startup ecosystem of the world. Slightly ambitious. We'll see. See how it goes. I'll just go and riff on that. So got the U.S. i got the Midwest. I interviewed John Fine recently. Also got another interview with Boris Wirtz, who is up in Vancouver, but also invests in the Midwest. We got Mexico, we got Brazil, we got Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Africa, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Berlin, Paris, London, Moscow, China. Moscow and China are probably going to be a little bit harder for me. Might map those, but I'm not sure if I can, if I can figure that out. Indonesia. I got an interview with somebody who's starting a company over in Indonesia, Australia, Japan, India. I can't forget India. India is one of the most interesting and I've already got a lot of interviews lined up with people from India. So I'm really excited about this and hope you, hopefully you are too. I want to take you on a journey around the world and I'm physically about to actually go on a journey myself into Latin America. I speak Spanish, Portuguese and French, as you might know, and I'm about to get those languages up to par and start doing interviews so I can break the linguistic borders of the Internet down and hopefully get the quality of content that is available in English. About what it really takes to start a company, what it really takes to start something creative instead of just hyper fluff. And I believe that there's not that type of information in the other languages. So I want to get some of it out there. Hopefully you enjoy it and hopefully enjoy this episode and have a great day. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. My guest here is Thorsten Koland. He is the co founder and CEO of unodl. And really great to have you on the show. We've known each other for a long time. Welcome.