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 using a parafoil. We talked about the initial idea and struggles during developme
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 of Waveline, a B2B workflow automation startup. In our conversation, we dive i
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 dependency on unsustainable fossil fuels and making our packaging home compostable and
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 their users’ personal context seamlessly, you can think of it like Stripe for
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 founded straight after high-school. We speak about his early life as an entrep
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 innovation award in 2021 in Las Vegas after competing in the Not-A-Boring Compet
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 at building a low-cost water monitoring network. We speak about her transiti
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 speak about how Alter Ego was born and their progress so far, the challenges of d
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 trend by helping people become doers in the real world by connecting its users wi
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 AITHON.We talk about their initial prototypes using vacuum cleaners, to succe
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 that uses AI to help YouTubers create better titles and thumbnails. We talk abou
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 about their recent appearance in Hoehle der Loewen, a Switzerland version of th
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 Generai, a young startup aiming to bring poster-quality AI-generated art to the m
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 Francisco. He’s a good friend of mine as we both studied Aerospace in Delft an
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 a simple question: “Can we control and use all the digital devices around us
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 internship at Auterion (https://auterion.com/) and in his free time he enjoys
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 Engineering at TU Delft, where he was a founder of the team Talaria, which competed f
Welcome to Before They Change The World, where we explore the minds and ideas of inspiring individuals working on impactful projects, before they change the world. We're David and Junwoo and are based in Zurich, a tech hub where countless spin
Can you imagine listening to a casual conversation with Mark Zuckerberg about what his life was like at Harvard before he started Facebook, or about Elon Musk’s dreams when he joined the Ph.D. program at Stanford?This podcast is aimed at offer