Circularity.fm: Recent Episodes
Patrick Hypscher
Circularity.fm is the podcast about understanding, building and managing circular business models. Most episode showcase one specific organisation that runs a circular business model or a business model in the circular economy. This can be a startup, an established SME or a business field of a corporate. Hence, interviews are both about founding and funding a circular business as well as transforming an existing linear business to a circular one, be it in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa or Australia. The podcast focuses on experiences made in this build-up and transformation phase.
Building a marketplace requires growing two customer groups at the same time: The buyers and the sellers. Providing platform services that compete with the sellers' offerings adds another twist to the challenge. In this episode, Tobias Kronawitter, founder of kaputt.de, shares his experience in helping people extend the lifetime of smartphones, smartwatches, coffee machines, and game consoles by matching them with local repair shops and offering repair kits.
Why should a brand or manufacturer offer its products as a service? And what will they learn about their products? In this episode Puck Middelkoop, the founder of Hulaaloop will share her experience in renting out kids' clothes from premium brands.
Why should customers rent a product they previously bought? Having a compelling answer to that question is key for the success of every Product as a Service model. And why would you start the service under a new service brand when you already have a well-known product brand? In this episode, Lisette from bedzzzy shares her experience with offering circular Auping mattresses as a service.
Did you ever wonder how a large company organizes the transformation to a more circular business? And what if you're producing and selling thousands of products - how to assess and manage their circularity? These are the main questions we will explore in this episode. Simon Skoog from IKEA shares experiences they made so far.
How to run a Product as a Servíce business together with a social partner? And how to remove the worries of poor people with a subscription? The Papillon project rents out Bosch home appliances to poor people. In this episode, Bruno Vermoesen explains the unique character of Papillon.
This episode will give you an overview of more than 140 different organisations running business models in the circular economy. I assign these organisations to one of five types: Product as a Service, Sharing Platforms, Resource Recovery, Product Life Extension and Circular Supplies.