EUROPE BUILDS by BORRN

About EUROPE BUILDS by BORRN

Europe’s startup ecosystem is no longer just an underdog story. Europe builds and it builds well. This is a podcast dedicated to diving deep into the real stories behind its startups. Each episode tackles, among others, topics like scaling challenges, funding disparities, diverse entrepreneurial culture, and the art of storytelling—through candid conversations with those who live these realities every day. Visionary founders across the continent.

Publisher

BORRN

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Sept 2024

Latest episode

4 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 27 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   4 Jul 2025

   What Europe’s next generation of founders is building right now

   Christos Mantolas, Elena Papadonikolaki, and Eilon Grouper discuss how Europe's next generation of founders turn personal obsessions into scalable ventures, offering insights into discovering passion and navigating bold ideas in an interview.

2. 

   20 Jun 2025

   How to lead with product intuition—not just data

   Renia Rigopoulou, Group Product Manager at Orfium, explores product leadership through intuition and user experience, emphasizing data-informed decisions over a purely data-driven approach in this interview.

3. 

   13 Jun 2025

   How to invest in outliers, not consensus

   Alex Vamvacas, founding partner of Evercurious VC, discusses identifying conviction-led founders and investing in deep tech startups with real technology, in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

How Native Teams is rethinking global work

Published 6 Jun 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I say there's a couple of sparks and I don't know if I'll perhaps analogize a bit like a carway. You try and turn it over. It doesn't quite spark into ignition. We had a couple of those and then eventually the engine got going. So the first one was a couple of issues where we had a problem that Native Teams has actually ultimately been the solution for. So I had a colleague who'd worked with me at my previous startup and enjoying me before Native Teams. I was just building software for other people. So I'd actually started at number one and was had a small agency building software for other people. […]

Who has been a guest on EUROPE BUILDS by BORRN

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Renia Rigopoulou
• Alex Vamvacas
• Jack Thorogood
• Oleks Yaroshenko
• George Georgiadis

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

46

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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