Selected - The Sesamers Podcast

Selected 012 - Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Episode Summary

Part 1: We go long and deep with Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, CEO and co-founder of the Amsterdam based media platform and conference extraordinaire, The Next Web. Boris lays out just how easy it is to build a media empire and where he keeps the dead bodies. Hint: It's only reachable by boat. All this and more on Episode 12 of The Selected Podcast. #doubledutch

Episode Notes

Topics Discussed:

• How Boris's girlfriend knows Dan best.
• A clever party trick involving the hidden folder.
• Is Amsterdam getting uptight?
• Brits behaving badly.
• The Dutch Spice Trade.
• Flying Dutchman Cocktails
• The Netherlands gift to the world: The Gatso Speed Camera.
• Between the government and the citizens, taxes are sport.
• The Dutch Curfew. Dealers have a permit!
• Neelie Kroes and Boris gets called up to write up.
• Boris's 'stache.
• Shamanamanemena. It's an actual date.
• Boris has a shack that can only be reached by boat. Where he makes chairs.
• Why Boris prefers to be on mute during meetings.
• How to build a conference and a platform and sell out to the Financial Times.
• The Conference comes before The News.
• Boris does maths. And hires a writer.
• The FT acquires TNW.
• Upsides/Downsides?
• Boris AND Dan, around since 1888.
• How boring is Boris's life?
• Dan's Golf Handicap
• Thorpe North Western.
• How has the pandemic impacted The Next Web.
• Dickpunch.
• Wytze had enough. AND two kids!
• Oh there's one more thing ...
• Boris and Patrick fund their holidays to Brazil via The Next Web.
• Dan rides a float in Carnival in Brazil. Thanks Liz!
• Patrick has found a way "around" taxes. We're just not sure it's 100% legal.
• Boris smuggles lanyards into Brazil on a "personal" holiday.
• The Next Web Conference is back in September. Maybe. Fingers Crossed.
• If you need your taxes sorted out, and you're in the UK, Lanop.
• Bitterballen.
• Magma!
• "You need a beer in one hand, and a bitterballen in the other."
• Rapid Fire Question Round
  • The best and the worst parts of being a CEO.
  • When was the last time you used illegal drugs?
  • When was the last time you used legal drugs?
  • Did you or did you not kill someone at the 2009 edition of the TNW Conference?
  • When was the last time you dressed up as a woman?
  • If you were reincarnated as an animal, what would it be and why?
  • What is the latest funny thing you've built?

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