RideTheWind

Knows a few things about payments, passionate technologist, father of three, husband of one, loves to ski.

[EWOR @EWOR_official]

Daniel Gutenberg (@Soonicorn) called EWOR Connect Maui the “highest future unicorn density of any event I’ve ever seen”.

This is the man who invested in Airbnb, Facebook, Netscape, SumUp, MobilEye, and many more incredible companies.

What wasn't obvious was what each founder had to overcome personally to get here.

Ilaria spent years questioning whether she had what it takes to found a startup. Deciding to commit turned out to be the hardest part.

@josiahsenu had to stop believing that someone from his background couldn't create extraordinary outcomes. He never felt ready and built anyway.

@okaris knew what it felt like to miss a great wave. It's why catching the right one now feels almost unreal to him. Years of effort are suddenly compounding.

Riding a wave and building a generation-defining company demand the same things: the foresight to see a shift forming while everyone else still sees a flat sea, and the nerve to commit before the timing feels safe.

Nobody catches the next wave alone. The ones riding it early find each other at EWOR.

Watch the film below.

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

@EWOR_official Imagine if these two now combined their companies for a 25x more efficient world predictive model driven by Wictors AI…?

[EWOR @EWOR_official]

The 0.1% who get into EWOR are outliers.

Exhibit A 👇

[ok @okaris]

if you’re in sf and want a chance to join one of 10 startups led by exceptional founders, several of which are on track to reach a 9-figure valuation, we’re hosting an event to meet you this thursday ( June 18th )

two examples:

carter has built companies with $350m+ in exits and is now building one of the world’s most sophisticated ai-native marketing engines.

julian built his first spacetech company at 16, scaled it to 80 people, and is now building his next spacetech venture.

if you’re interested, drop a comment below with a short blurb about who you are, what you’re great at, and why you’d be a great fit and i’ll dm you a luma link

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

@ashkan01C This looks amazing Ashkan!!

[nico - oss/acc @nicodhnr]

sell me this devtool

@minitap_ai has launched minitest. Fully managed AI QA engineer for mobile, w/ zero authoring, zero maintenance. It catches the UI/UX, performance, payment issues your users would've hit, before they hit them.

comment for free 2 months unlimited access and a personal onboarding from the team

in the meantime enjoy my Oscar-worthy acting

[EWOR @EWOR_official]

The EWOR Grand Pitch returns live to START Summit.

This Thursday, March 19 (14:15-15:30), 12 EWOR fellows will take over the Pitching Stage – the same outliers who attracted 750+ investors and booked hundreds of 1:1 meetings within minutes following last week’s virtual Grand Pitch.

This is the last chance to meet them before rounds oversubscribe.

A preview of who you’ll see:

001 Julian Rothenbuchner | Tumbleweed | SpaceTech
002 Owen Zhang | Global Citizens | LegalTech
003 Othman Kabbaj | DueDeal | FinTech
004 Maya Polackal | EOMIND | AI Infrastructure
005 Ravi Teja Chadalavada | Sapios | Autonomous Systems
006 Adam Lababidi | @Migma_AI | MarTech
007 Alexis Vincent | K42 | FinTech, AdTech
008 Florian Scherl | explaino | Enterprise AI
009 Jean-Pascal Lutze | NoMaze | AgriTech
010 Richard Mincher | Forg3D | IndustrialTech
011 R.J. Napolitano | Ghost | Advertising, AI Services
012. Alfons Huber | REPS GmbH | EnergyTech
The last Grand Pitch room filled up fast. You've been warned ;)

Thanks to our partners at START Summit for spotlighting EWOR Fellows onstage as part of the official agenda for the second year in a row: David Kandler, Leo Braun, Timon Singer and Hannah Tassia Noll.

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

My first company @twitch sold for a billion dollars.

My second one lost $75 million in 36 months.

People love talking about success, but today I'm going to talk about failure.

It's time to be honest about Atrium:

[Henrik Jönsson @jonsson_henrik]

När man ringer frun från älskarinnans säng och läxar upp henne med äktenskapsråd.

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

China leads massively in mobile wallet adoption... https://t.co/n28kTuoFbi

[Uri Harris @safeortrue]

It's pathetic what the "news media" has turned into. On both sides. I'm not sure there's a solution, other than getting news from multiple sources. https://t.co/pKsqDd885Z

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

Interesting take on GDPR compliance... https://t.co/e0Gjvb0rf4 https://t.co/dnu0U2Gks0

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

Data privacy should be in the spotlight as it is now. Always... https://t.co/igRjiKlIcj https://t.co/Xy4UmQB4hP

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

https://t.co/dZH4dY25xY https://t.co/3wCUFPxHve

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

https://t.co/ldikx0bhbw

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

Innovating means failing, a lot and that is ok, its all a part of pushing forward... https://t.co/VVmY8UFPlk https://t.co/PbZnGZw8pw

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

Very proud of SumUp! https://t.co/Zg9ctWP6YP https://t.co/ZVeoKfZqsd

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

@SwissGator @SteamboatCO Would have picked the snow Mike...

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

The daily dose of inspiration...
https://t.co/aVlV1xSZ0S

[RideTheWind @pettermade]

Balancing execution and innovation is hard... but it can be done!
https://t.co/uZEp65VeET