Greg Scown, co-founder of TextExpander, shares an inspiring journey through the partial sale of his company to Summit Partners and... more

Join Àlex, CEO of MarsBased, as he tells the story behind starting both MarsBased and the Barcelona chapter of Startup... more

Curious about the challenges of transitioning from a corporate environment in China to the bustling startup scene in Barcelona? How... more

Unlock the secrets of navigating the turbulent waters of venture capital with our latest episode featuring the ever-insightful Mercè Tell,... more

Ever wondered how to protect yourself from online scams while keeping advertisers honest? This episode is a must-listen as we... more

The podcast is back after a much needed (albeit unintended) hiatus. For more details, listen to this episode (in Spanish)... more

Celebrating a decade of bootstrapping brilliance, I, Àlex, founder of MarsBased, am back behind the mic to share an emotional... more

Explore the power of AI in streamlining content creation and productivity in our latest podcast episode. We're joined by Clemens... more

Prepare to navigate the high-stakes world of mergers and acquisitions with insider expertise as Dimitri Steinberg and Brian Flynn from... more

Embark on an entrepreneurial odyssey with Keyven Ferland of La Web Shop and uncover the raw and real narrative of... more

What can you achieve as an entrepreneur without leaning on venture capitalist funding? How can we communicate more effectively in... more

Brace yourselves for a riveting dialogue with Francesc Font Cot, the dynamic serial entrepreneur who co-founded Incapto Coffee, Nubelo, and... more

With our special guest, Khash Sajadi, the founder and CEO of Cloud 66, we're unlocking the story of a technology... more

Ever wondered how a tech company rides the tumultuous waves of an industry in flux? Journey with us, as Àlex,... more

In this episode, our good friend in and out of business, Josh Feldberg, interviews Àlex to discuss many topics for... more

The story of MarsBased can't be told without a city in particular: San Francisco.Even though MarsBased started up in Barcelona,... more

We hosted Job van der Voort, CEO @ Remote, to discuss the status of remote work (obviously) but also derivates... more

We have talked a lot about no-code back in the day, and far from being the technology that would render... more

One of the downsides of running an agency, or a services-based company per se, is that you don't get media... more

A couple of weeks ago, shit hit the fan. A bank run on Silicon Valley Bank had to be intervened... more

We're excited to share this episode with you in which we talk to Kat O'Brien (Chief Partnerships Officer at ClimateTrade)... more

We bring in one of our references in UI/UX, Fabio Basile, to discuss freelancing in this sector. About time we... more

Kicking off the new year in great fashion with a solo episode of Àlex (CEO) doing a recap of our... more

This week, we didn't have a guest speaker either, so we decided to record a solo episode.Àlex has addressed the... more

One day you're a developer, like all the rest, and then you're not one of them anymore. That's what happens... more

We had our friend Mark from AWS calling in from Websummit last year, we also had Jorge Jaramillo recording his... more

Breaking news: Factorial raised 123.5MM in a series C funding round led by Atomico and Tiger Global, and Kantox has... more

This episode will see us discussing text input and how to build keyboards for smartphones with Olivier Plante, CEO at... more

Remote worker solitude is something that strikes within 12-18 months of working remotely. We all suffer from it yet very... more

In this episode, our CEO Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit, devotes some time to answer questions from our friends from in- and... more

Back in the day, pre-pandemics and whatnot, we used to organise an annual conference called Startup Grind Tech. Oh, boy,... more

We talk to Marc Assens, CTO and co-founder of Happy Scribe, an AI product from Barcelona offering real-time translations and... more

Appear.in was a video conference platform we started using in the early days of MarsBased, back when Google Meet Chats... more

In this episode, we talk to Pau Minoves, CTO at Typeform, one of the longest-standing and hottest startups in Barcelona,... more

In this week's episode, we discuss career paths for developers in the tech industry with Miguel Andrés (ex-Google, Badi, now... more

Third episode talking about M&A and how to sell your business with our friend Mike Counihan, from Transcend Partners.On part... more

We've been collaborating with developer bootcamps throughout the years to ensure that we contribute to the next generations of developers,... more

We sneaked into 4YFN (4 Years From Now), the startups conference of Mobile World Congress, to host a Startup Grind... more

BOOM! the audio intros and outros are gone! We keep improving and iterating this podcast thanks to your feedback, making... more

We have been curating the weekly newsletter of Startup Digest Barcelona since 2016 at MarsBased. Startup Digest contains a curated... more

OK - this one is a BANGER. It's got everything we like: async work, remote, hard opinions on corporates and... more

We discussed no-code one year ago with Ben Tossell, from Makerpad, a few weeks before he sold his company to... more

Hope y'all are having a very restful winter break wherever you are in the universe!We're kicking off the year with... more

Our CEO apologises publicly for the interruption of the programming of this podcast. We've gone through very busy six months,... more

Community community community community community community community community community community community community community community community community community community community community... more

We start this episode very well by stating that marketers ruin everything, so we don't expect to make a lot... more

For six hours, Facebook and some related services, like Whatsapp and Instagram, disconnected themselves off the internet.The whole world turned... more

One more episode remembering conversations from other events to kick off the new season of Life on Mars.We're bringing back... more

In this episode, our CEO Àlex talks at length about the new season of Life on Mars and all the... more

For this last summer edition of Life on Mars, we're going all the way back to October 2018, when we... more

We're repurposing an old (but still rings true today!) fireside chat we hosted at IronHack Barcelona in March 2017 with... more

For this episode, we'd like to share a small interview with Àlex, our CEO, at an investors pitch event hosted... more

Studies show that over 50% of people have experienced sexual harassment at work, and even a bigger amount of people... more

We had the pleasure of hosting Didier Lafforgue, creator of LocomotiveCMS and CEO of the development agency NoCoffee.In 2016, we... more

We wanted to celebrate our seven years as a company with a very special episode. Seven freaking years, already.We decided... more

Pixel art, dial-up modem sounds, 8-bit fantasy, RPG-like environments and tasks, retro music and HUGE loads of nostalgia. Does this... more

Liz Dunn Carroll has spent big part of her life working in technology corporations and high-growth startups in Silicon Valley,... more

Data, data, data and data. Millions of companies are generating more and more data every day, while others are focused... more

Companies are spending a fucktonne of money in marketing, and more specifically in ads, mostly on the main platforms like... more

No one reads podcast episode descriptions, so let's rehash the one from part 1 and add a bit of Lorem... more

Company sales: the miracle all entrepreneurs and business owners aspire to, mostly because we're bombarded every day with company exits... more

In this episode, we hosted Ana Cidre (Senior Developer Advocate at auth0) to talk about the role of Developer Relations... more

The last twelve to fifteen months have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience for many. The COVID-19 pandemic brought several industries to... more

The last few weeks have been crazy on the stock market, or should we say "stonks" market? The WallStreetBets movement... more

Brian Leonard co-founded the B2C startup TaskRabbit in 2009 and built its initial prototype coding it in Ruby on Rails,... more

Pau Ramon has been spearheading the technical department of two of the hottest Barcelona-based startups of the last years: Redbooth... more

We have been receiving a lot of feedback about our podcast, and one of the most popular requests has been... more

Cristina Vila is the fearless CEO and co-founder of Cledara, a company we hosted a few episodes back that happened... more

A few episodes back, we discussed the future of the music industry and the role of tech in digitising concert... more

Selling to big corporations is the holy grail of business. We all know that we need to do it, but... more