OMR Podcast

OMR Podcast is a German business interview show with a practical instinct for how companies get from idea to scale. It does not stay at the level of founder mythology for long. A conversation about Robert Dahl and Karls turns strawberries into a larger story about self-financed growth, direct sales, experience villages, and the risk of opening in Oxnard. That is the show at its clearest: concrete object first, business model second, numbers close behind. It likes scale. It asks about visitors, locations, revenue, permits, tenants, financing, and timing. In the AI episode with Pip Klöckner, the conversation moves through consumer habits, model switching, B2B retention, infrastructure costs, and the question of whether the current market is a bubble. The defense-tech episode with Robert Fink is more grave, because Helsing brings software, weapons, Europe, ethics, and the physical consequences of military systems into the same room. The Alexander Otto episode turns shopping centers into a study of cities, tenant mix, drugstores, parking, real estate, and Hamburg's Olympic hopes. The Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck episode uses construction to talk about the Tesla Gigafactory, approval processes, standardized buildings, and speed as a competitive advantage. The show is direct. It sounds comfortable with long answers, but it keeps re-anchoring them with follow-up questions. It is not especially glossy, even when the guests are prominent. The interest is in what changed, who took the risk, where the money comes from, and what the next constraint is. That makes the podcast useful for listeners who enjoy founder and executive interviews but want more operating texture than inspiration. It also has a distinct OMR ecosystem around it, with festival references, business audiences, and recurring attention to marketing, e-commerce, media, AI, and tech. Some episodes include promotional closing material. The core appeal is still the interview table: commercially curious, informal, and unusually willing to make guests explain the actual business.