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Inside Bending Spoons: Finding Talent, Leveraging AI & Driving Operational Excellence | Luca Ferrari
- ▶ 4:23 Luca Ferrari Yeah, I think part, part of that is, I don't know how much the audience knows about Benny's films, but we, we started in Copenhagen, Denmark quickly thereafter, moved it to Milan, Italy.
Another AI Safety Kerfuffle, Markiplier’s Stake in GoPro, SpaceX Getting Into Turbines | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 30:14 unnamed speaker I'm from the founding town in Denmark.
Inside Trump's Science Agenda: Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China w/ Michael Kratsios
- ▶ 17:51 Michael Kratsios And this was, um, initially actually tested in Denmark and some other places.
Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
- ▶ 43:10 Rahm Emanuel The two countries I would say that we have a lot to learn on to emulate as well as is both Canada that has somewhat of a point system, their variation, their signature on it, a Canadian signature, and Denmark. 2 times in the scene
AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.
- ▶ 18:18 Feross Aboukhadijeh He lives in Denmark, which is like a very high trust society, and his kind of worldview about it was that, you know, well, I don't want to live in fear and think about these things, and I'm like, you're on the internet, man.
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 4:28 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) When I was in Copenhagen, Denmark, and he was in Chicago.
- ▶ 55:08 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) So, my mind was blown when I came to the US from Denmark, and I would order a burger, and I would just be handed the parts.
Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
- ▶ 1:24:08 Matthew Prince One in particular is based in Denmark.
URGENT SHIFT: Digital Wealth is Dying and Real Estate Holds the Key!
- ▶ 8:49 Paul Mark Morris To give you an idea, that is the gross domestic product of reasonable sized countries like Denmark, uh, which has a gross
WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:01 unnamed speaker The PM of Denmark or what, what country was saying?
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:12 Cliff Weitzman I'm going to be in Denmark this Sunday. 3 times in the scene
The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 6:51 Molly O'Shea And so your co-CEO, Yannick, he's Danish. 3 times in the scene
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 22:32 Shane Parrish The man spent six weeks walking around Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. 2 times in the scene
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- ▶ 1:04:01 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) That, to me, that baseline, I mean, I grew up in Denmark, working class, where I did have occasionally, like, it's near the end of the month, there's no more money.
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 1:08 Shawn Wang But isn't that interesting there's so many, so much, like, strong Danish presence? 4 times in the scene
“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War
- ▶ 43:24 David Friedberg And as a result, if you think about the influence that China could then have on, on Denmark and on Danish foreign policy, if the United States doesn't secure what it needs for the longterm,
Datacenter Protests, Paramount WB Bid Clears Key Hurdle, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:32 unnamed speaker In Denmark, there's the ski hill that's on top of the power plant.
Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn't Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 16:17 Yuval Noah Harari You know, one, it's a small thing, but it's still important that, you know, after the US was attacked in September 11 and invaded or attacked Afghanistan, Denmark came to the, to the help, to help the Americans.
Going From Blobs to Billions. Clay's Co-Founder Breaks Down Inbound, Outbound, and AI-Powered Sales.
- ▶ 15:08 Varun Anand He's in Denmark.
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 1:41:21 Adam Goldstein I saw something that said, um, there is an offer that was more than the GDP of Denmark.
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 1:08:36 Andrew Feldman We, we then made a hierarchy that, that made the Danes feel second rate.
Davos Reactions, Waymo in the News, WB & Netflix Strike All Cash Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:59 John Coogan Of a Danish soldier pointing a gun at the camera. 5 times in the scene
Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs
- ▶ 56:24 Jason Calacanis U.S. officials met with reps from Denmark and Greenland at the White House on Wednesday to discuss how the U.S. could take control of Greenland. 4 times in the scene
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 31:44 David Sacks And by the way, with Denmark.
The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:28 Jordi Hays Uh, to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States. 4 times in the scene
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:27:25 Michael Lewis Like, treadmill in Denmark when I listened to the Indian cricket thing.
UK Budget 2025: Stripe + Startup Coalition
- ▶ 41:49 Merva Iqbal I'm not sure if this is, uh, but there's something of like, if the startup founders fail, there's like an unemployment sort of, yeah, Denmark, right?
The Playbook on Buying and Running Companies Forever · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 6:53 Luca Ferrari Whether we fail in Italy, Denmark,
He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:21 Simon Eskildsen So I grew up in Denmark.
- ▶ 39:52 Simon Eskildsen I was on the Danish team and we got along.
China vs America: The Battle for Global Dominance Explained | Dan Wang interview · Invest Like The Best
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:14 Max Junestrand We're the best in Denmark, and we're the best in Norway.
Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | AIUC · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 26:36 Rune Kvist I mean, I grew up in Denmark.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 2:41:18 unnamed speaker Yeah, it was in, it was in Denmark. 2 times in the scene
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)
- ▶ 25:04 Rick Steves I just wrote creative articles to turn people on to my favorite corners, the south coast of Portugal, Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, Arrow Island up in Denmark, you know, the Mosul River Valley instead of the Rhine for your castles in…
OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
- ▶ 49:45 Brian McCullough So like if you were again, I, I, I don't have an opinion on, on the, this current administration's policies, but if you're in Denmark,
34 - Scaling Food Innovation: How RisingFoodStars Supports Startups in the Food Industry
- ▶ 0:37 Kristian Marquez Really excited, because with us today, we have joining us from Copenhagen, Denmark, Lena Mariko Wenzel, who's an Innovation Program Manager.
Jake Adler on Raising $3M to "Make Soldiers Heal Faster and Think Smarter".
- ▶ 13:49 unnamed speaker Novo Nordisk is bigger than the entire GDP of Denmark.
#61 Can a Zebra Survive in a Unicorn World?
- ▶ 31:57 Josh Muccio So she flew over to Denmark to meet him. 2 times in the scene
#40 Three Startups Enter. Only One Will Leave.
- ▶ 10:30 unnamed speaker We have people today trying to use our app from Denmark and wherever else, and they're very angry at Canada, and they're very upset that they couldn't get up more.
Harvard Professor: There Is a FORMULA to Happiness | Arthur Brooks
- ▶ 54:21 Arthur Brooks And, and, and so what they do is they find a way to say, yeah, well, you, I went to Denmark 6 times in the scene
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
- ▶ 59:48 David Friedberg Before we do that, I just want to ask you about, um, should the United States spend, spend two hundred billion dollars to acquire Greenland from Denmark?
- ▶ 1:41:10 David Friedberg Um, do you think the United States should spend two hundred billion dollars to acquire Greenland from Denmark? 4 times in the scene
Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
- ▶ 35:25 David Friedberg You had an anecdote from me two nights ago, I don't know if you're willing to share it, about a conversation regarding Denmark and Greenland. 7 times in the scene
What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- ▶ 26:58 Jordi Hays And it is truly incredible, but all the stuff he does is, is he's like, this amp is made from this guy in Denmark and he makes 10 of these a year.
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:50 Victor Riparbelli I come from Denmark, right?
- ▶ 1:01:52 Victor Riparbelli I'm from Denmark and I think we always like with our, wherever we are from, we're like much more negative.
Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- ▶ 57:39 John Coogan Uh, anyway, Max Meyer, as we said, banger, he says, we must put a 100,000, a 100,000 percent tariff on Ozempic and Legos in order to force the kingdom of Denmark to give Greenland 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:33 John Coogan Canada and Greenland, and by extension Denmark, control the Northwest Passage, which due to ice melting is set to become one of the largest shipping routes on Earth.
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 9:44 John Coogan I was talking trash about Denmark because, uh, they're talking a big game about not selling Greenland to America. 2 times in the scene
Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- ▶ 1:12:05 John Coogan I mean, uh, Ken Howery is now the ambassador to Denmark, and, you know, I think he reads Pirate Wires.
A complex path for building heat batteries
- ▶ 30:51 John O'Donnell Right now, we are building out the execution organization to deliver these projects in Texas, and Kentucky, and Denmark, and Germany, and Siberia, and Southeast Asia, and California, and growing that team, and also completing the…
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 45:11 Jordi Hays Wagovi came out of Denmark.
- ▶ 1:14:22 John Coogan And it's because even though it's a, it's, it's a foreign company, Novo in Denmark, like the FDA is the gold standard of approvals and they always go here first.
- ▶ 1:15:54 Jordi Hays Ozempic, uh, is created by a company in Denmark, but all of the marketing firepower behind the product is coming out of LA, right?
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:10 David Rosenthal Which, despite its name is not so small, but rather a large rural area in the south of Sweden, not too far from Denmark.
- ▶ 27:51 David Rosenthal Danish locations for textiles.
- ▶ 1:34:26 Ben Gilbert So across the sixties, they opened more Denmark and Norway stores.
- ▶ 1:40:43 David Rosenthal Ingvar and his family emigrate to Denmark first to avoid the wealth tax, and then a couple years later in 1978, they settle in Switzerland.
Advice Line with Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield
Bending Spoons just bought his company for $100,000,000+ with Issuu CEO Joe Hyrkin
- ▶ 8:24 Joe Hyrkin So, the company was founded in Denmark. 4 times in the scene
Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses
- ▶ 14:06 Shaan Puri oh, it's cheaper in Denmark, so then they find somebody who's already in Denmark to buy it on your behalf. 2 times in the scene
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 49:13 Rod Cuthbert And what I meant was Prince Frederick, the crown prince of Denmark, had 3 times in the scene
Kristof Gleich – Boutique Managers and Active ETFs at Harbor Capital (EP.411)
- ▶ 34:12 unnamed speaker We work with an awesome firm out of Copenhagen in Denmark called Sea Worldwide.
$2.5 Billion Tech Empire Built On Acquisitions, Efficiency, & Pure Ambition w/ Founder, Luca Ferrari
- ▶ 56:45 Luca Ferrari We actually started Bending Spoons in Denmark, in Copenhagen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:15 Luca Ferrari And then I, uh, I was fortunate enough to get access to a double degree program, which enabled me to get a second, uh, master's degree in Denmark, Copenhagen, you know, where I then happened to briefly work as a consultant, uh, launch and…
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 1:07:11 Shawn Wang I think I had this compilation of Denmark where, uh, people like, uh, so it's the birthplace of C++, PHP, Turbo Pascal, Standard ML, BNF.
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 1:50:30 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That in, in Denmark, where that company is, they do not recommend it.
The Inside Story of Beamer Acquiring Userflow to hit $10,000,000 in ARR
- ▶ 11:52 Satya Ganni The, the other rest of the team is based out of Denmark, um, which is where some of the successful companies like Gendersk has come.
- ▶ 14:45 Satya Ganni So we had team, teammates in, um, Spain, Denmark, Canada, and Argentina, uh, et cetera.
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:41 Ethan Mollick So a new study just came out of Denmark of people who are using chat GPT and, you know, in knowledge intensive work environments.
- ▶ 31:22 Ethan Mollick Okay, so a Denmark study I told, I talked about, did find that the people using the skewed mostly male and mostly wealthy, right?
What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- ▶ 13:27 Rory Sutherland I've been quite successful in Denmark, but nowhere else. 2 times in the scene
The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
- ▶ 25:07 Calley Means If you're a pre-diabetic in, in Denmark, where this drug is made, they actually prescribe a keto diet.
Harvard Professor: THIS is the Secret to Human Wealth & Happiness | Arthur Brooks
- ▶ 5:24 Arthur Brooks I was in India, and I was in Denmark, and I was just in all these different places that I go to do my work when I was president of AEI, and, and he knit it together into this narrative about a way to see the world.
If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
- ▶ 17:47 James Altucher He wants to buy Greenland and the prime minister of Denmark, for some reason tweeted back. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 44:05 David Senra So Coppola actually flies to Denmark to visit another independent film company. 3 times in the scene
This legend gave away 3 crazy cash-flowing business ideas
- ▶ 20:30 Jonathan Courtney I'm coming to Denmark this weekend, even though this podcast is never going to come out.
Advice Line with Fawn Weaver of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey
- ▶ 13:54 Elizabeth Crossley-Wright I'm based in Monaco, but the business is in Denmark.
This Danish CEO Hit $30m ARR using Unique 14 Hub Model Selling Software for Microsoft Ecosystem
- ▶ 1:23 Nathan Latka Three 65 launched it a little over two years ago, based in Denmark.
- ▶ 5:31 Nathan Latka What feedback do you have for maybe other CEOs based in Denmark or Sweden or the European looking to be aggressive with M&A?
The rise of heat batteries
- ▶ 11:36 John O'Donnell We are working on those things with builders of kilns and ovens, um, in, we have a particular project funded in Denmark right now, but the race to scale is boilers everywhere.
Luca Ferrari: Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation |E1127 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:32 Luca Ferrari Well, we, we founded it in Copenhagen, Denmark, but we moved it to Italy
Why you shouldn't chase unicorns; 3 Big VC Myths; and how to keep control of your startup · PMF Show
- ▶ 0:33 Pablo Srugo We have Al Bowen from Denmark who says, concise and to the point.
WTF Ep# 16 | What character "flaws" make the best entrepreneurs? Nikhil ft.Ritesh, Ghazal and Manish · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:58:49 Manish Poddar Denmark, I was the, uh, very large vendor for Jack and Jones. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47:01 Ritesh Agarwal So we have a fairly large business in Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, and few of these geographies.
Bangalore Water Crisis Explained I Karnataka Govt Failure? | Vishwanath S on The Neon Show
- ▶ 48:18 Vishwanath Srikantaiah Examples come from Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark.
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 17:14 David Rosenthal The 1920 Nobel Prize winner from Copenhagen, Denmark, a animal biologist named August Crowe.
- ▶ 19:31 David Rosenthal She is a physician, so she's the first woman in Denmark to earn a doctorate in medicine, and
- ▶ 19:38 David Rosenthal Denmark, I kind of suspect has always been pretty progressive relative to the US, but even still, like we're talking about like the 19 teens, a woman to earn a doctorate in medicine and then be a practicing physician was, um, obviously…
- ▶ 20:04 David Rosenthal But given that they're both very, very active in the scientific and medical community in Europe, they are able to get her the best care possible, which at this point in time in Denmark is a young Copenhagen-based physician named Hans…
- ▶ 21:59 David Rosenthal Denmark at this point in time.
- ▶ 22:41 David Rosenthal Marie also writes back home to Denmark to Hagedorn and tells him about what's going on and about this discovery of insulin.
- ▶ 22:48 David Rosenthal She suggests in that letter that since Hagedorn is kind of the leading diabetes physician in Denmark, maybe
- ▶ 22:57 David Rosenthal While they're in Toronto, they might be able to secure like some rights or ability to bring insulin back to Denmark.
- ▶ 23:26 David Rosenthal Most importantly, McLeod takes August to go meet with the insulin committee and talk about what Marie had suggested to Hagedorn of like, hey, maybe these are the right people to bring insulin to Europe, essentially, but at least to Denmark.
- ▶ 23:52 David Rosenthal Patent drugs in Denmark.
- ▶ 23:54 David Rosenthal So any blessing or patent licensing from the insulin committee to the crows and Hagedorn for Denmark is sort of pointless because it's not legally binding in Denmark anyway.
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