Beginner's Mind
Blueprints for Builders and Investors
Hosted by Christian Soschner
From pre-seed to post-IPO, every company—especially in deep tech, biotech, AI, and climate tech—lives or dies by the frameworks it follows.
On Beginner’s Mind, Christian Soschner uncovers the leadership principles behind the world’s most impactful companies—through deep-dive interviews, strategic book reviews, and patterns drawn from history’s greatest business, military, and political minds.
With over 200 interviews, panels, and livestreams, the show ranks in the Top 10% globally—and is recognized as the #1 deep tech podcast.
With 35+ years across M&A, company building, board roles, business schools, ultrarunning, and martial arts, Christian brings a rare lens:
What it really takes to turn breakthrough science into business—how to grow it, lead it, and shape the world around it.
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- Founder & Investor Blueprints: How breakthrough technologies scale from lab to IPO
- Historical & Biographical Frameworks: Timeless playbooks from the world's great builders
- Leadership & Communication Mastery: Tools to inspire, persuade, and lead at scale
Whether you're building the next biotech success, investing in AI, or leading a climate tech company through hypergrowth—this podcast gives you the edge.
Listen in. Apply what matters. Build companies that last.
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Beginner's Mind
#81: Astrid Woollard and Christian Niedermüller - The Future of Investments in Digital Assets
What is happening in all things digital assets, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and alike? The market crashed. Is it all over now?
Investing with experts is always the best idea when investing in new areas. This episode was recorded in February 2022, and I am happy that I had the chance to speak with two experts in digital assets from Austria:
Astrid Woollard and Christian Niedermüller, SMAPE Capital
Astrid is the CIO of Smape Capital. Their slogan is: We invest beyond mission-driven tokenized economies. She is also working as an independent consultant in
digitalization, digital business models, blockchain technology applications,
and IP strategy
Christian Niedermüller has been 15+ years in banking/traditional finance in very challenging roles, but finally went full time into the DLT/Blockchain and digital asset universe after being 6+ years massively involved anyway.
Topics we discuss in this episode:
- Smape Capital
- Satoshi Nakamoto
- NFTs
- DAOs
- The Metaverse and
- Much much more
🕛 Timestamps
(00:00) Kick Off
(01:07) What is Smape Capital?
(04:15) The History of Digital Assets
(05:05) Who is Satoshi Nakamoto
(07:07) Next Generation Token
(09:53) Use Cases for NFTs
(12:40) What Is DAO?
(14:10) Astrid Woollard’s and Christian Niedermüller’s First Steps Into the Crypto Market
(21:13) The Driving Forces Behind the Digital Asset Revolution
(25:10) The Bitcoin Pizza Day
(26:11) The Tokenized Economy
(28:02) Use Cases for the Token Economy
(33:10) Useability of Tokens for Investments in Equity, Real Estate, and other Asset Classes
(37:00) Unbanking the Banked, and Banking the Unbanked
(40:11) Digital Assets and Inflation.
(42:55) The Remittance Network – An Opportunity for Digital Assets?
(46:50) Money Laundering and the Blockchain
(51:27) Digital Assets in the Metaverse – Why, What, And How
(54:42) NFTs in the Metaverse
(56:08) How NFTs Will Change the Gaming Industry
(59:00) The Availability of Capital for Digital Asset Projects
(01:01:51) New Funds in the Digital Asset Eco-System
(01:06:01) Why Should Family Offices and High Networth Individuals invest in Funds Rather Than Bitcoin
(01:12:42) The Future of Investing in Digital Assets
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