ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Marten Rauschenberg is Managing Director of the Asia Berlin Forum, the Berlin Senate-backed project connecting the city's startup ecosystem to Asia's, and leads the annual AsiaBerlin Summit each November. Before that, he built and sold five companies in Shanghai, after starting out as a paramedic and a fashion photographer who talked his way into Chinese advertising agencies by shooting cars instead of models.
In part one of this two-part conversation, Marten traces that path from paramedic to founder, and explains what AsiaBerlin actually does to connect European and Asian startups, governments, and capital, from talent pipelines to public-private partnerships to getting pilot projects past the "pilot trap" and into real scale. Part two, where the conversation turns to AI, capital concentration, and politics, is out next Monday. A clear look at what it actually takes to build a working bridge between two continents, one partnership at a time.
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