Fault Lines #4 - Helena Gagern - The Founder Embassy: Where Europe’s Top Founders Meet Silicon Valley
In this episode of the Fault Lines, Augustin Sayer welcomes Helena Gagern, co-founder of The Founder Embassy, for a deep dive into her unconventional path from Europe to Silicon Valley. Helena retraces her journey from working in hypergrowth at FlixBus in the U.S., to self-teaching coding during COVID, breaking into product management, and eventually launching (and shutting down) a crypto startup backed by top-tier investors . Through candid reflections on failure, ambition, and serendipity, she shares what it truly means to build in tech today.
The conversation then explores the founding…
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