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Why I'd Worry If None of My Founders Went Bust | Will Orde, Passion Capital | BRP #156
"I'd be very worried if I never invested in a founder that went bust - it would show I was being too safe and boring." 💡
Will Orde - Partner at Passion Capital - joined us at the How to Web venue to talk about what it really takes to back founders on day zero.
Will studied maths and physics at Cambridge, ended up in venture capital "through sheer happenstance and luck" a year out of university, and has been doing VC for 14 years. At Passion Capital he invests super early - pre-product, pre-revenue - in fintech and adjacent spaces like compliance and regtech, across London and the rest of Europe. 🚀
In this episode, Will breaks down:
✦ The three simple questions Passion asks before investing
✦ Why founders falling out is the biggest early risk - and why he doesn't love co-founders who met on an app two weeks ago
✦ The portfolio math: about 120 companies backed, five unicorns, and around a third that failed
✦ Why it's as much a sin to be too early into a market as it is to be way too late
✦ Vitamin or painkiller: why you need to be at the top of your customer's to-do list
✦ How Passion goes from a first text to "we want to invest" in eight to ten days
✦ Why pre-seed is non-obvious - and why you can't just follow the sheep
✦ His challenge: come swinging for Visa and Mastercard
See if your questions are among the ones we've answered - and if not, what are you waiting for?
4 Nov 2026
Why Building for Europe Is Different | Avinav Pashine, ex-Meta Reality Labs | BRP #155
The same word can mean a completely different product in Germany and in the UK. 🌍
Avinav Pashine - former Product Lead at Meta Reality Labs - joined us at the How to Web venue for a conversation about building products across cultures, countries and teams.
Born and raised in India, Avinav worked as an engineer, did his MBA between Dubai and Singapore, built a multi-channel strategy for Carrefour in France, worked on machine learning and search at Zalando in Berlin and on public mobility at Door2Door, before spending eight years at Meta - from ad tech to spatial intelligence and mixed reality for virtual reality devices. His rule was never about money: where is the next challenge, and where is the next learning? 🚀
In this episode, Avinav breaks down:
✦ Why Europe's diversity is both its biggest challenge and its biggest opportunity
✦ Why forcing a framework that worked in America onto Europe is not the right way
✦ The Zalando "shorts" example: same keyword, very different products
✦ How he built a "second brain" - an AI agent that books tickets and pays his bills
✦ Building zero-to-one products at Meta: start small, validate, peel the onion
✦ Why he was never the smartest person in the room, and why that helped
See if your questions are among the ones we've answered - and if not, what are you waiting for?
4 Nov 2026
Cum vânează Stripe frauda: 2.700 de conturi, un singur om | Aleodor Tabarcea, Stripe | BRP #154
AI-ul poate prelua tot ce este proces. Ce nu poate prelua este înțelepciunea ta. 🧠
Aleodor Tabarcea, Site Lead, Engineering la Stripe, a stat de vorbă cu noi direct din locația How To Web Conference 2026, despre carieră, leadership și ce înseamnă să fii relevant în perioada următoare.
Aleodor a crescut în Bacău, a dat de primul lui cod pe CD-urile din revistele de tehnologie și a făcut primii bani din IT administrând servere de jocuri. A trecut prin Bitdefender, a stat 7 ani la Adobe, apoi la Snyk, iar astăzi are grijă de echipa de 120 de ingineri de la Stripe România. Ne-a explicat de ce inginerii români construiesc lucruri foarte mișto, dar nu știu să le vândă, și cum arată din interior o investigație de fraudă la Stripe. 🚀
În acest episod, Aleodor ne vorbește despre:
✦ De ce, pentru noi, „este urât să te lauzi”, iar pentru americani orice lucru construit este „cel mai șmecher”
✦ Cum l-au ajutat Toastmasters și cursurile de actorie să comunice cu echipele din SUA
✦ De ce România nu are încă o cultură de management și cât de important este să știi să spui „nu”
✦ Cum investighează Stripe frauda și spălarea de bani: 2.700 de conturi în spatele aceluiași om
✦ Inteligență vs. înțelepciune: ce ar trebui automatizat cu AI din jobul tău și ce nu
✦ Provocarea pentru public: o carte de logică și o carte de filosofie
Vezi dacă întrebările tale se numără printre cele la care am răspuns - și dacă nu, ce mai aștepți?
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