Venture Lab with Luis
Venture Lab with Luis
Podcast Description
The greatest opportunities are often hidden behind closed doors. This podcast opens them up.
After seven years in a different industry, last year I developed a strange obsession with startups and venture capital. I consumed every podcast, video, and book I could find.
And while entrepreneurship does not need another podcast, it desperately needs transparency, accessibility, and conversations that go beyond funding rounds and exits.
Venture Lab tells the personal stories of Europe's most exceptional investors and most innovative founders.
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The podcast delves into venture capital intricacies, startup stories, and the personal journeys of investors, with episodes revealing insights on topics like building successful funds, the broken VC model, and the skills essential for founders, including talks with figures like Christian Nagel on top-performing funds and Ondrej Bartos discussing the future of investing
The greatest opportunities are often hidden behind closed doors. This podcast opens them up.
After seven years in a different industry, last year I developed a strange obsession with startups and venture capital. I consumed every podcast, video, and book I could find.
And while entrepreneurship does not need another podcast, it desperately needs transparency, accessibility, and conversations that go beyond funding rounds and exits.
Venture Lab tells the personal stories of Europe’s most exceptional investors and most innovative founders.
Will grew up in a family of shipbuilders, naturalists, and war heroes, a family legacy that, drilled into him one simple principle: have a go, do something that helps people. That mission carried him from a poetry degree to a hedge fund, through a cancer diagnosis at 29, to become a deep tech founder and then deep tech investor with one obsession: swing the bat on something that actually matters.
Then at Lightspeed and Firstminute Capital, he worked with teams that invested in SpaceX, Anthropic, Wayve and Mistral before he became a partner at Speedinvest.
In this episode, Will shares:
Why being diagnosed with cancer at 29 was the pivot that forced him to swing the bat
What he learned about courage from Lightspeed's billion-dollar bet on Anthropic
Why the most interesting deep tech opportunities in Europe exist between the verticals of energy, space, and compute
Why Europe's next Tesla or SpaceX won't start in a lab, and why you need to raise $100M before you've solved the science
The founder profile that actually builds generational companies in 2026
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