Philipp Westermeyer

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[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

Er trainiert Dennis Schröder, Leon Draisaitl und Top-CEOs. Im OMR Podcast verrät Arne Greskowiak, wie auch du fitter wirst. Plus: Was seine Dienste kosten und wie er selbst trainiert. Jetzt live: https://t.co/2MGo1ETDLe

[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

24 Jahre, keine Investoren, bald 1 Mrd. € Umsatz mit einer App. Moritz Holländer hat Freecash nach dem Abi gegründet. Wie geht das?

Pod mit Moritz Holländer jetzt live: https://t.co/2MGo1ET5VG

[Judith Dada @DadaJudith]

Probably the most fun I ever had on a podcast: Live recording with the one and only @Westermeyer. Talked about my early career, why I joined @langdock, what we are building, why everybody - esp. in Germany - needs to drive the damn bus now, end even my largely non-existent exercise routine 💀.
Link below (German only).

[Judith Dada @DadaJudith]

Wenn @Westermeyer mich fragt ob ich meine „Bus-Analogie“ erzählen kann 🫡

[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

Von der Finanzwelt zur KI-Elite: @DadaJudith hat mich beeindruckt. Heute baut sie mit Langdock an Europas KI-Zukunft. Was für eine Story! Pod jetzt live.

https://t.co/Dm5otxt9fV

[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

https://t.co/Dm5otxtH5t

[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

Haben Business-Hemden eine Zukunft?

Frank Seidensticker glaubt daran und investiert in seine Traditionsmarke. Ein Shop in Paris macht über 1 Mio. Euro Umsatz. Was sieht er, was andere übersehen?

Pod mit Frank Seidensticker jetzt live.

[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

Vom Freestyle-Skifahrer zum Robotik-Unicorn: Roman Hölzl hat nach einem schweren Sturz sein Leben neu geplant.

Jetzt erzählt er erstmals seine Geschichte. Pod live.

https://t.co/Dm5otxtH5t

[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

Vom Türsteher zum Unternehmer: Schimmy Yilmaz baut in Gelsenkirchen Fitnessgeräte für The Rock, Lenny Kravitz & Co.

Die Geschichte im neuen Pod. 👇

https://t.co/Dm5otxtH5t

[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

Ruanda 🇷🇼

25 Leute, eine Woche, drei Immobilienkäufe. 👀

Dazu eine der spannendsten Volkswirtschaften Afrikas und extrem viele junge Menschen.

Ein paar Eindrücke von unserem ersten OMR Travel Trip:

https://t.co/GA3IG12Y4z?

[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

660.000 Cordhosen. Eine Fabrik im Vietnamkrieg verloren. Pleite. Eine Million Dollar per Handschlag.

Die unglaubliche Geschichte von Tom-Tailor-Gründer Uwe Schröder.

Pod jetzt live. https://t.co/IN5LL2CFzP

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

i'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now

this Franco-Brazilian startup called MORFO took a patch of land in Brazil that was rock-hard and compacted from years of cattle farming. they replanted it using a single drone. months later the ground was covered in grass, bushes, and small trees. the land came back to life.

here's how the whole thing works.

1. drones scan the terrain with high-resolution cameras and sensors
2. AI analyzes the imagery alongside soil samples, moisture levels, slope, and surrounding vegetation
3. the system picks from a catalog of 300+ native species, deciding exactly which plants will thrive in which specific spot
4. the drone fires biodegradable seed pods packed with seeds, nutrients, and moisture at 180 capsules per minute
5. satellite and drone imagery monitors regrowth over time, with AI tracking vegetation cover and biodiversity
6. two people and one drone cover 50 hectares a day. a person planting by hand manages about one hectare.

and MORFO isn't alone. AirSeed in Australia drops 250,000 seed pods per day into bushfire-scarred koala habitat, replanting swamp mahogany that koalas depend on to survive. Flash Forest in Canada fires 50,000 pods daily into wildfire-destroyed boreal forest, planning the replanting alongside Cree Indigenous communities. re-green won Prince William's Earthshot Prize after planting 6 million seedlings across 30,000 hectares of Amazon and Atlantic Forest.

five companies across four continents built this same approach independently. nobody coordinated. the physics of the problem demanded it.

knowing which seeds belong in which soil used to require years of ecological fieldwork, manual planting crews, and budgets that made large-scale restoration nearly impossible. now two people with a drone and an AI model trained on local soil data can replant 50 hectares before lunch.

this is the AI work that'll still matter in 50 years.

[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

Dankeschön!!

[Bernd Schmellenkamp @Schmellenkamp]

Nick Hayek im @officially_omr-Podcast mit @Westermeyer: Der @Swatch-Chef macht aus einer Uhr für 400 Euro ein Weltereignis - und redet erfrischend Klartext. Grosses Unternehmer-Kino aus der Schweiz. Meine Hörempfehlung für diesen Sonntag.

[Philipp Westermeyer @Westermeyer]

Im Februar im OMR Podcast noch drüber gesprochen neben einigen anderen Projekten und dem US-Netzwerk von Christian.

[Christian Angermayer @C_Angermayer]

Today’s Presidential Executive Order on #psychedelics marks a major milestone in the history of these valuable substances.

It corrects a fundamental mistake made in 1970, when President Nixon established the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and classified psychedelics as Schedule I substances - a designation that had no basis. For largely political reasons, these highly promising compounds were pushed out of the medical realm and into illegality.

Now, they are coming back - with force.

The executive order is directing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to reduce the red tape and restrictions that have long stymied researchers and biotech companies in the field.

As a result, I expect drug approval processes to accelerate and become less costly.

I am very proud that @ataibeckley is at the forefront of this field, with one of the broadest pipelines in psychedelics, including clinical programs focused on DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, R-MDMA and – as previously disclosed - ibogaine and additional novel, discovery compounds in various stages of preclinical development.

Since I founded AtaiBeckley in 2017, and seed-funded @COMPASSPathway that same year, these two companies have raised more than $1.5 billion to advance clinical research and development of psychedelic therapies.

As access to capital was limited early on - since most investors dismissed the idea as crazy - I invested over $100 million of my own capital and have never sold a single $ATAI share (nor do I intend to).

The public sentiment around psychedelics as FDA-regulated drugs has gone from “this is a crazy idea that will ruin your career” to being on the verge of what the market anticipates will be the first regulatory approval of a psychedelic with COMP360… all in less than a decade. What a journey.

But we are still only at the beginning.

I strongly believe the world will benefit from the full spectrum of psychedelic compounds that demonstrate medical and commercial value. I also believe that delivery mechanisms and treatment duration are critical, as these therapies must fit within the commercial realities and infrastructure of the U.S. and global healthcare systems.

That conviction is exactly why AtaiBeckley has built such a broad and diversified pipeline with a focus on short-acting psychedelics:
https://t.co/YkpR93738B

Once approved, I expect physicians will determine which treatments are best suited to specific patient profiles. Over time, better data and real-world evidence will significantly improve this matching - delivering the right FDA-approved treatment to the right patient.

This level of presidential attention also reinforces another long-held belief of mine: the support – and potential use - for psychedelic therapies is far larger and broader than most people have historically assumed.

Take once more AtaiBeckley as an example. Most analysts currently model compounds like BPL-003 and VLS-01 primarily within treatment-resistant depression (TRD) - patients who have already failed at least two antidepressant treatments. But my own personal view (and ultimate vision) would be to progress to these treatments sooner, especially when existing treatments often have limited efficacy and significant side effects.

Given the favorable safety profiles and promising efficacy of psychedelics we are seeing in the clinical trials run to date, and based on my own extensive discussions with therapists who have worked with these compounds, I personally believe psychedelic therapies have the potential to become first-line treatments - and, over time, even potentially play a role in prevention.

Thank you, @realDonaldTrump, for today’s important signal of support, and @joerogan for driving it!

Most importantly, thank you to everyone working behind the scenes to make this possible today - and to the fellow drug developers advancing these therapies.

This has been, and will continue to be, a truly collaborative effort. You can all be proud of the meaningful difference you are about to make for the millions of patients in need.

[Christian Angermayer @C_Angermayer]

A few weeks ago, on German OMR podcast with @Westermeyer, I said that in ~10 years we may no longer need human labor at all - thanks to advances in AI and robotics.

That statement triggered a lot of backlash.

But look at what’s already happening.

First, companies quietly have reduced white-collar hiring since a while now because AI dramatically increased productivity.

Now we are entering the next phase: active replacement. Yesterday’s post from @jack is another signal that this shift is accelerating.

And notice something equally important: the stock jumped 20%. This will entice CEOs who may have hesitated - fearing public backlash around layoffs - to act faster and more decisively. Markets reward efficiency. Once boards see that replacing labor with AI drives immediate shareholder value, hesitation disappears.

The final blow for the labour market will come once AI systems truly understand physical reality and seamlessly integrate with robotics. That will kill most blue-collar jobs. Not because humans are incapable. But because machines will simply be more efficient, cheaper, and available 24/7.

Within five years, there will be only two types of companies: Those that fully embrace AI - and those that are dead. There will be very little in between.

The real question is not whether this transformation happens. The question is how we design the world around it.

I don’t believe this has to be dystopian. If managed intelligently, humanity could thrive. We could decouple survival from labor. We could redesign incentives. We could focus on creativity, relationships, health, exploration, and meaning.

The end of labor does not have to mean the end of purpose. It could be the beginning of it.

[Guido Appenzeller @appenz]

For anyone speaking German, I recorded a podcast with @Westermeyer from OMR and it was a ton of fun.

https://t.co/ZfbC65otm1

[Jochen Wegner @Jochen]

Bei @Westermeyer im OMR-Podcast gewesen. In 1.45h fast alles gesagt. (Demokratie, KI, der Zustand der Medien, 80 Jahre @DIEZEIT, Verbot von Social Media, Epstein-Files, (Video-)Podcasts, Hacking, Elon Musk, Kinderfragen an Satya Nadella, die Migrationspolitik der USA, China, Singapur, The Future is Asian, Firmen gründen, Chaostheorie, Apple, Google, Facebook, Autorenmedien, Lokalmedien, Polarisierung, Deutschland spricht)

https://t.co/ZPc22reRRA

[Christian Angermayer @C_Angermayer]

Had a great time with @Westermeyer on his OMR Podcast - a true tour de force across many topics, from dinosaur cloning to US politics. And psychedelics + @enhanced_games

In German - but thankfully, there are excellent AI translation tools these days

https://t.co/J7ucARvIeF

[Tobias Damm | Investobi @investobi]

Ich würde mir wünschen, dass wir einen Kanzler für Deutschland hätten, der genau wie der Telekom CEO Tim Höttges in diesem Podcast spricht.
Absolute Hörempfehlung.
Es geht natürlich um die Telekom, das USA-Geschäft und ist überraschend politisch.
Wir brauchen mehr davon @Westermeyer.
https://t.co/zAklaZtc5X

[supergraf @supergraf]

Die wahrscheinlich schönste (motivierend, spannend, relevant) Folge im @Westermeyer OMR Podcast seit Jahren. Wie geil!