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In this episode of On Boards, hosts Joe Ayoub and Raza Shaikh welcome Raffaela Rein, a seasoned entrepreneur and board member with expertise in frontier technology and innovation-driven leadership. Raffaela began her career as an analyst at BlackRock, and launched three companies for the world's largest incubator, Rocket Internet, across China, Australia, and Taiwan before becoming an entrepreneur. She serves on multiple corporate and private equity-backed boards, including Porsche, Mutares and International University IU. As the founder of WildWildVentures and CareerFoundry, she has scaled startups to 120-plus employees and advised many venture-backed businesses. Raffaela serves as a board member for the German startup Verband, where she helps improve legislation for startups. Raffaela was named one of Forbes top women in tech, and she is among Europe's most influential women in startups and venture capital. She has built a career at the forefront of business reinvention. Raffaela discusses her entrepreneurial journey as founder of BoardLens a new AI tool she is developing and how it will transform the future of board meetings and excellence in board members. Key Takeaways 1. Board effectiveness Only 30% CEOs rate their boards as effective. With an expectation that board members come to meetings well prepared, Rein recognizes that board members are tasked with consuming hundreds, and often thousands, of pages of information in preparation for meetings. It is an almost impossible task to complete a thorough review especially if you are if you have a full time job. In Germany, it's common for board members to hire consultants or a ‘chief of staff' that will help them with their board responsibilities. Raffaela is creating a tool that will serve a similar role for board members worldwide. 2. How BoardLens can transform board meetings Raffaela anticipates launching BoardLens in mid-2025. It is an AI driven tool that is built to aid board members with meeting preparation, research, executive summaries, questions and risk analysis. It is meant to support board members while enabling members to fulfill their fiduciary duties and make a meaningful contribution in board meetings. Raffaela likens BoardLens to hiring a personal Goldman Sachs analyst. It is trained with proprietary data and that will enable it to act, think and analyze like a board director. 3. Human edge is still crucial While AI can process vast data and respond quickly, human directors can provide intuition, pattern recognition, and emotional intelligence—skills developed through lived experience that are essential in nuanced decision-making. As technology advances, AI is bound to replace some human roles but to maintain the balance between AI and humans, Rein suggests thinking about how people are able to provide a unique and individual perspective to issues on a board's agenda. 4. Privacy and confidentiality concerns Uploading board packets into non-enterprise AI tools can be a confidentiality risk. BoardLens, however, will be trained to only read one organization's board materials and will not cross share data. Rein explains that the company's IT department will be able to access the software's security suite. Quotes ”Here in Germany we have this system that you can get a consultant or chief of staff who actually helps you, not just with your preparation, but also with thinking things through deeply, doing deep market research, basically doing weeks and weeks of work to help you prepare for a board meeting.” “I don't like the word 'Copilot' for BoardLens because it feels too passive. I like the word “analyst” because if you think of a Goldman analyst, they will do their best to really make you shine and to prepare you, so you should think of it as an analyst that fights for you.” ”The breadth of expertise and the breadth of knowhow you need to have and need to gain very rapidly as a director these days is significant and has accelerated dramatically in the last five years.” Links raffaelarein.com https://boardlens.ai/ https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/governance-insights-center/library/board- effectiveness-and-performance-improvement.html Raffaela Rein Bio Raffaela Rein is a seasoned entrepreneur and board member with expertise in frontier technologies and innovation-driven leadership. She serves on multiple corporate and private equity-backed boards, including Porsche, Mutares, and the International University IU. As the founder of WildWildVentures and CareerFoundry, she has scaled startups to 120+ employees and advised venture-backed businesses. Named one of Forbes' Top Women in Tech, Capital's 40 Under 40, and among Europe's most influential women in startups and VC, Raffaela has built a career at the forefront of business reinvention and innovation driven leadership. She began her career at BlackRock and launched three companies for Rocket Internet across China, Australia, and Taiwan before becoming an entrepreneur.
Raffaela Rein - is a founder of Career Foundry and Wild Wild Ventures. She is investor at the own.fund and crypto fellow at Kernel. Listen to her fascinating story about becoming entrepreneur, angel investor and diving into Web3. Follow Raffaela on Twitter, Linkedin & InstagramFollow Katia on Linkedin or TwitterFollow Female Business Angels Podcast on Instagram (@female_business_angels) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Die Digitalisierung verändert unser Arbeitsumfeld und auch das Verständnis von Arbeit. Der Begriff „Neue Arbeit“ oder auch „New Work“ beschreibt diese Transformation. Sie steht für Flexibilität und rückt Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter ins Zentrum. Wie motiviert man sie? Wie fördere ich Zufriedenheit als Führungskraft? Und welche Rolle spielen hierbei hybride Arbeitsmodelle, eine starke Unternehmenskultur und diverse Teams? Diesen Fragen geht die achte Folge des Porsche Podcasts mit Raffaela Rein, Unternehmerin und Vorstandsmitglied im Bundesverband Deutsche Startups, und Andreas Haffner, Personalvorstand der Porsche AG auf den Grund. Moderiert wird sie von Dr. Sebastian Rudolph.
Mission M - Kongress für junge Macher*innen im Mittelstand Zu unserer heutigen Sonderfolge haben wir nicht nur mit einem Gast gesprochen, sondern gleich mit fünf – alle von ihnen haben wir bei Mission M getroffen, dem Kongress für junge Macherinnen und Macher aus dem Mittelstand, wo sie als Speaker*innen in unserem Programm aufgetreten sind. Aus diesem Anlass dreht sich in dieser Sonderfolge alles um Digitalisierung und Innovation in Mittelstand und Wirtschaft. Anders Indset ist international bekannter Wirtschaftsphilosoph. Wir sprechen mit ihm u.a. darüber, wieso er glaubt, dass wir die Wirtschaft neu denken müssen. Raffaela Rein ist Unternehmerin, gehört zu den Forbes Top Women in Tech und ist Vorständin des Deutschen Start-up Verbandes. Emanuel Vonarx hat die Stuttgarter Kaffee-Marke earlybird coffee gegründet und berichtet darüber, warum Arbeit nicht nerven muss. Lukas Fütterer und Sophia Rödiger kommen aus der Mobilitätsbranche und haben gemeinsam "Mountainminds" gegründet, eine Unternehmensberatung zu achtsamer Transformation. Last but not least: Sarah Berger, Leiterin des Bereichs Digital Products bei Hansgrohe, ihr Spezialgebiet ist das Thema Internet of Things. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören!
Wie stark wird die Digitalisierung unser Leben nach der Krise beeinflussen und wie wichtig sind Start-Ups für den wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand? Und können sie zur Bewältigung der aktuellen Pandemie beitragen? Darüber sprechen Nadine Schön, stellvertretende Vorsitzende der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion und Raffaela Rein, Gründerin WildWildVentures GmbH und im Vorstand des deutschen Startup Verbands. Disclaimer: Wertentwicklungen in der Vergangenheit sind keine Garantie für zukünftige Erträge und Ergebnisse. Der Wert von Anteilen kann schwanken und wird nicht garantiert. Anleger werden darauf hingewiesen, dass insbesondere Fonds, die in Schwellenländern anlegen, mit höheren Risiken behaftet sein können. Die dargestellten Standpunkte spiegeln die Einschätzung des Herausgebers wider und können sich ohne Mitteilung darüber ändern. Daten und Informationsquellen wurden als verlässlich eingestuft, jedoch nicht von unabhängiger Stelle überprüft. Eine detaillierte Beschreibung der mit den jeweiligen Fonds verbundenen Risiken finden Sie in den entsprechenden Fondsprospekten. Fidelity übernimmt keine Haftung für direkte oder indirekte Schäden und Verluste. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter www.fidelity.de.
Raffaela Rein, the founder of WildWildVentures, Vitalute, and CareerFoundry, was named amongst the Top 50 Women in Tech by Forbes. Things you learn in this episode: Why building a culture entirely free of management does not necessarily create the best outcomes How to build team culture the design way How to create a cohesive culture in remote-first teams Find out more about how to help your team perform and build a strong, cohesive culture at: https://bunch.ai
In der heutigen Folge spreche ich mit der Powerfrau Raffaela Rein. Raffaela ist Gründerin von Career Foundry, Europas führendem Anbieter für Onlineschulungen in UX Design, UI Design, Web und Mobile Development. Vor Career Foundry war Raffaela Investment Strategin bei BlackRock in London, leitete bei Rocket Internet den Launch von drei E-commerce Firmen in Südostasien und gründete die Beratungsagentur „Satorion Partners“, wo sie Firmen wie Etsy oder Axel Springer beraten hat. Es überrascht deswegen nicht, dass Raffaela von Forbes zu Europas Top 50 Women in Tech 2018 ernannt wurde. In unserem Gespräch widmen Raffaela und ich uns dem Thema „Organizational Design“. Also nutzt die einmalige Gelegenheit von Raffaela zu erfahren, wie jeder (also auch du) zur Gestaltung eines erfolgreichen Unternehmens beitragen kann! Inhalte der Folge:
What if flat hierarchies could ruin your company...? Welcome to Episode #4. Our guest today is Raffaela Rein, co-founder of online course platform CareerFoundry. She has been named amongst the Top Women in Tech by Forbes as well as European Innovator of the Year by StartupEurope. On the show, we speak about using Instagram to build your personal brand, the potential disadvantages of flat hierarchies, public speaking as well as who we look up to for inspiration. Enjoy!
Raffaela Rein is a cofounder of the Berlin-based educational startup CareerFoundry, which offers online courses on UX, UI, and web development. Career Foundry is one of the biggest players in this field with more than 10.000 students each year. Raffaela is also recognized as top 50 women in tech by Forbes (congrats!!) and a great guest for this podcast as she is a business leader with a big focus on design. We spoke about: her organizational design experiments, changing the culture of CareerFoundry, why and how every employee (even non-designers) have UX as KPI in their performance review, and what you can say to your boss to convince her to invest more in design. Show notes: 2:20 How CareerFoundry started. 6:30 What is special about CareerFoundry’s curriculum? 10:25 How to convince your boss to invest in design? 15:40 How a UX designer helped CareerFoundry to go from 10 to 100 customers per month 21:50 New skills and disciplines that will be relevant for designers who want to advance their careers 27:00 How CareerFoundry experimented with a flat hierarchy 33:30 How CareerFoundry improve culture by 500% in 7 months 37:10 UX key performance indicator (KPI) that CareerFoundry uses for all employees