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#17 - Bringing back Rockets from Space | Anna Sulzer | PERIPHAS

We spoke with Anna Sulzer, who was a systems engineer of PERIPHAS, which in 2022 developed guidance, navigation, and control for the recovery of a sounding rocket usin...

#16 - The Y Combinator experience with Waveline | Jan Schnyder pt. 2

This episode is hosted by me, David and today I speak with Jan who you might remember from his first appearance on the podcast about 6 months ago. Jan is the founder o...

#15 - Using seaweed to replace plastic | Jessica Farda

This episode is hosted by me, David and I speak with Jessica who is the founder of Noriware, a startup that turns seaweed into plastic packaging, cutting the dependenc...

#14 - Stripe for data: Sid, Unlocking the ultimate personal assistant | Max Rumpf

This episode is hosted by me, David and I speak with Max, who’s a CS Master student at ETH and the co-founder of Sid. Sid enables generative AI companies to leverage t...

#13 - Starting a company right after high-school, Kork, Rocketlaunch, Forbes 30u30 | Noah Faoro

This episode is hosted by me, David and I speak with Noah Faoro, a Swiss entrepreneur and co-founder of KORK, the largest service marketplace in Switzerland which he f...

#12 - Elon Musk’s Not-A-Boring Tunneling Competition, Space Exploration | Eugenio Valli | Swissloop Tunneling

In this episode, we talk with Eugenio Valli, president of the board of Swissloop Tunneling, an ETH Zurich Student team building a tunnel boring machine that won an inn...

#11 - PhD at ETH Zurich, Switching Fields, RiverX and YouTube | Jessica Droujko

This episode is hosted by me, David and I speak with Jessica who is doing a PhD in environmental engineering at ETH. She is also the founder of RiverX, a project aimed...

#10 - Alter Ego: Virtual fitting rooms for online shopping | Fayçal M'hamdi

Fayçal is a CS MSc at ETH and co-founder of Alter Ego, a startup creating virtual fitting rooms to allow shoppers to try clothes digitally on their own avatar. We spea...

#9 - InClub, the anti-social media trend | Luca Bertelli

This episode is hosted by me, David and I speak with Luca who is the co-founder and backend development manager at InClub. InClub is part of the anti-social media tren...

#8 - AITHON: Concrete Drilling Drone, Studying in Hometown | Timon Mathis

In this episode, I had a conversation with Timon Mathis, a last year Bachelor Student at ETH Zurich, who is the Technical lead of the concrete drilling drone project A...

#7 - Appeal: AI for Youtubers, founder struggles, from Turkey to ETH Zurich | Ege Karaismailoğlu

This episode is hosted by me, David and I speak with Ege who is a Computer Science Masters student at ETH Zurich. Next to his studies, he started Appeal, a project tha...

#6 - Refluenced: Revolutionizing micro influencer marketing | Jonas Holzer

Jonas Holzer is a co-founder of Refluenced, a Zurich-based startup aiming to revolutionize micro-influencer marketing by connecting influencers with brands. We talk ab...

#5 - Generai: your AI artist, Generative AI art for the masses | Jan Schnyder

This episode is hosted by me, David and I speak with Jan who is studying Machine Learning for his Masters of Computer Science at ETH. He is also the co-founder of Gene...

#4 - Zipline, NashJudge and studying at TU Delft and ETH Zurich | Max Martinez

Max Martinez was, at the time of recording, a few days away from graduating from his Masters of Robotics at ETH Zurich and starting a full-time job at Zipline in San F...

#3 - Omnia IoT, personalizing the world to your taste | Massimo Albarello

Massimo Albarello is an Electrical Engineering Masters's student at ETH Zurich, specializing in distributed systems and computer science. The idea of Omnia arises from...

#2 - From Seoul to Zurich and the wonders of flight | Junwoo Hwang (Co-host)

Junwoo Hwang is an Electrical Engineering Bachelor's student at Korea University and a co-host of the podcast Before They Change The World.  He is currently doing an i...

#1 - Serious hobbies, starting a DREAM Team at TU Delft | David Alonso (Co-host)

David Alonso is a Masters student in Robotics at ETH Zurich and a co-host of the podcast Before They Change The World. He completed his Bachelors in Aerospace Engineer...

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