Accelerating Returns
Episodes
How to buy and sell 200 traditional companies with 4.5x yearly ROI | Jon Staenberg
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro CEO of ICEO Technologies, interviews Jon Staenberg, who has made more than 350 angel investments and managed portfolios exceeding $400...
How to Get this $50M AI Fund to Invest in You | Patricia Pastor
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro interviews Patricia Pastor, a General Partner at NextTier Ventures, and discusses her experience managing over €150 million in VC fu...
Technological Singularity 2060? What is missing and how society will change | Kartik Gada
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro of ICEO Technologies interviews Kartik Gada, a renowned futurist who teaches finance and technology at Stanford University, has raised...
How to Use Technology to Remain Competitive | Mirco Patroncini
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro of ICEO Technologies interviews Mirco Patroncini, the Chief Technology Officer of Lastminute.com, a publicly traded company in the tra...
From 0 to 1 billion $ - The systematic process to build billion-dollar companies
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro of ICEO Technologies interviews Roland Austrup, the Chairman and Co-founder of a $1.7 Billion hedge fund, and Chief Growth Officer of ...
How AI really works | Don’t believe what they say about AI | Andriy Burkov
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro of ICEO Technologies interviews Andriy Burkov, one of the most influencial AI expert in the world. He is the author of several AI best...
How to raise funds and scale | Tactics, Metrics, Leadership and Success Factors | Xavier Castellana
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro, CEO of ICEO Technologies, interviews Xavier Castellana, the CFO of Amenitiz, and former CFO of Typeform (almost $1 billion valuation)...
How Sony Invests in Startups | Tactics, Success Factors, Trends, AI and Ethics | Antonio Avitabile
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro interviews Antonio Avitabile, the Managing Director Europe of Sony Innovation Fund, the Venture Capital arm of Sony. In this conversat...
How to Find and Invest in the Next $1 Billion Startup | Secrets from the world's most active VC fund
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Bigagli has invested in 200+ startups from pre-seed to Series A as venture capitalists and angel investors, helping them scale and achieve key ...
95% of Founders Don't Know This | How Venture Capital Really Works | How to Win VCs | LPs, GPs, VCs
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephane Nasser is the founder of the investment platform OpenVC. The startups using OpenVC have raised over $1 billion from major investors such as G...
Leadership Strategies & Hiring | AI, VR and the Future of HR | Building High-Performing Teams
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro interviews Serap Zel. Serap Zel has been the HR Director of Maersk, BIC, and HR Partner of Meta in Europe, US and Middle East. She is ...
What investors want and CEOs need to focus on | Multi-billion $ investments in the energy transition
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro interviews David Adams. David drives the energy transition by leading multi-billion-dollar investments in the energy supply chain for ...
Inside a $ 1 Trillion Investment Fund | From 0 to 500 Employees in 1 Year | They Don't Understand You Need to Fail | Enrico Milovan
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro interviews Enrico Milovan, the Scaleup Acceleration Head of the incubator dedicated to helping PIF's companies launch and scale in the...
Kevin Henshaw | We invented the future | AI, Web3, Metaverse | An endemic problem in the industry
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Calligaro interviews Kevin Henshaw, our first guest on the Accelerating Returns podcast. In today's episode we're going to talk about his experi...
Launching Accelerating Returns
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I will present you why we are launching Accelerating Returns and what you can expect from this.