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Hey There,
Our guest today on The Consumer VC podcast is Max Niederhofer, Partner at Heartcore Capital. Heartcore Capital is Europe's consumer tech VC focusing on investing in happiness at Seed and Series A.
Some of Max’s investments include Italic, LastFM, and One Fine Stay. Previously Max was an investor at Accel and founded MyBlog and Qwerly.
In this episode, we focus on:
Investing in communities
The future of social
Differences when scaling a company in Europe vs. U.S.
Three macro trends he thinks about often
Why we should rethink referring to people as “consumers”
Thank you Marc Nathan for the introduction! Enjoy listening.
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