When I saw Eric's podcast promised listeners "European founders with funny accents", I was like, this is some of the most American shit I've read all year. Joke was on Eric tho because my accent is 100% TV American 📺 🇺🇸 Eric turned out to be the…

I've been raised with the importance of climate activism, but I've been too awkward a nerd for protests 🤓 ✊ I've always preferred building, organizing. So I am honored to be working with Greenpeace Nederland to directly detect the toxic clouds…

Fangirling with Thomas Wolf, co-founder of Hugging Face 🤗 a leader of the open-source movement! Hugging Face is always mentioned in the same sentence as OpenAI & Google because they *open-source* all the fancy AI models like #ChatGPT and make them…

The top voted Q's & my A's from my latest deep dive on applying AI for Good at the Fontys ICT IT Festival - I've never had such an engaged crowd ❤️ notice my SPOTS wildlife ranger shirt? 😊 👕 Q&A -> 🤔 = Q, 💡 = A, ♻ = my…

We fuggin' did it! 😳 We raised €500K for our mission to train AI engineers in the application of AI for Good and supply the world with AI talent! But the road wasn't easy...-> 9 months ago we decided to take the tough road, pivot and bootstrap our…

OMG already 4 weeks ago I welcomed 43 amazing founders from around the globe to The NLs for our 🧡 Kings & Queens Week 🧡 ...and what a week it was... We started as strangers and ended as a tribe with representation from Argentina 🇦🇷, the UK 🇬🇧,…

These are the weirdest and happiest moments to me: hearing from our Uganda chapter 🇺🇬 about their new AI for Air Quality challenge, seeing a picture and being reminded that there's *real people* everywhere in the world continuously working to make…

I was just totally fangirling in this meet with Celina 😄 CEO & Co-founder of Zindi - and this is so awesome about founders: the sense of companionship on this crazy journey. Wanting to help each other, rather than compete ❤️ Zindi is the African…

I’ve got something really big to share which I’ve been sitting on for a while… I am officially a Sigma Squared Society Executive 🙈🎉 Co-leading the Dutch chapter together with Anjali ♥️ and building the global community with >40 founders, seen with…

Okay, a critical note. I just read 'Britain is joining the AI race with $125M to develop models similar to ChatGPT' 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♂️ 😗->🌴 - can you spot what's wrong about this statement? OpenAI received over $11B (!!!) in funding to…

😌 This feels good to share: We have just launched the career page on our platform, the culmination of what I’ve been working on at FruitPunch for a long time! You can now get in touch with verified FruitPunch AI professionals looking for a…

Wether it’ll be us or someone else, the education and recruitment industry will be disrupted. In this video I explain why & how I think that will happen. 📄 The gist of it: The current recruitment industry only exists in the gray, opaque gap between…

Super honored to be a BRAVENTURE startup mentor! I feel some imposter syndrome being mentioned among 'the greats' like this, but I do think I can provide valuable insights to early stage startups since I've just gone through their steps and made…

When I was starting out I had a huge issue with titles (self branding in general) Used to call myself 'Chief Cheerleader' as a joke - turns out it's not clear to anyone what you do when you say that 😅 Until I literally got labeled 'CEO' by Nina,…

What are one of the most legendary product designers (Andrei Photoshop, Figma, Twitter, etc.) and a researcher in agent-based modeling (Arjan) doing making peanut butter 🥜 🤔 @ Jars? When I heard about this I was like, yeah sure, and also, there…

The amount of requests I’m getting to give talks about ‘the future of AI’ and ‘is AI going to take over our jobs’? Has increased to similar levels as 3 years ago! So it’s time to get my crystal ball out 🔮 and update on: Is AI going to take over our…

Now this is dedication!🤗 I did something that felt iffy: order Christmas presents 🎁 from a startup I love (Sarowa!) a few days before D-day... ...and they delivered *with a handwritten letter* ❤️ Sarowa from my friend Benedikt makes fanny packs…

I have a tendency to say "Hey guys!" and was wondering if I should change this because it's a gendered way of talking to people - so a did a little Google search and the result was... Interesting 😂 >>> Apparently "guy" is an old-timey cuss word,…

Half a year ago when Peter Barden invited me for a beer in Amsterdam and asked me if we could organize the AI for Good track at World Summit AI I thought I was dreaming - - but it's undeniable now, it actually happened! Pics for proof below. I…