Who this is
Philipp Klöckner, known as Pip, is a tech analyst. He worked at Idealo and at Rocket Internet and says he didn't fit either company's template on paper. Philipp Glöckler built Avocado Store, a marketplace mainly for sustainable clothing, after university, then the sharing platform Why Own It, and later worked as a consultant and at Daimler. Today, alongside the podcast, he runs the golf YouTube channel Second Shot with Daniel. The two met because Philipp kept being mistaken for Pip. He spent a year asking Pip out for coffee, and during the pandemic they launched Doppelgänger Tech Talk. More than five years later they still produce it as a team of three, with editor Jan.
Episodes
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FAQ
Who is behind Doppelgänger Tech Talk?
The podcast is made by Philipp Klöckner, known as Pip, a tech analyst who worked at Idealo and Rocket Internet, and Philipp Glöckler, who built Avocado Store among other things and now runs the golf YouTube channel Second Shot. Add editor Jan, who has been there since day one. That's the whole team. To the episode →
What do Pip and Philipp think of search funds and AI roll-ups?
Pip is skeptical. He knows hardly any cases where someone bought a Mittelstand company and successfully digitalised it, because it fails on culture, not technology. What's valuable in an acquisition is mainly the brand and customer base. He sees better odds with tax advisory firms, because their work is mostly digitalisable. To the episode →
What is Second Shot?
Second Shot is Philipp Glöckler's golf YouTube channel. He follows Daniel, who wants to enter qualifying for the big Open tournaments with a handicap of minus 2.4, with Philipp as his caddie. Philipp edits the videos himself and can imagine it becoming a small six- to seven-figure business. To the episode →
Quotes
„Gründersein macht ja nicht jeden Tag Spaß. … irgendwie 360 Tage im Jahr nicht besonders viel Spaß. Es ist einfach nur Kampf jeden Tag.““Being a founder isn't fun every day. Somehow it's not much fun 360 days a year. It's just a fight every day.”
„… unser einziger Gatekeeper ist unser eigenes Interesse.““Our only gatekeeper is our own interest.”
„99% deiner Umsätze und Gewinne liegen immer in der Zukunft.““99% of your revenue and profit always lies in the future.”
„Wenn einer von uns beiden ein schlechtes Gefühl hat bei einer Werbepartnerschaft, dann sagen wir: sorry, passt nicht.““If either of us has a bad feeling about an ad partnership, we say: sorry, not a fit.”
„… weil es kein Technologieproblem ist, sondern ein Kulturproblem.““Because it's not a technology problem, it's a culture problem.”