Start to scale. Startup and Scale-up Founder Stories.
Showcasing the vibrant Dutch entrepreneurial ecosystem - and our journey to support the startup and scale-up founders responsible. Hosted by Lars Crama, edited by Lisette Braakenburg.
Start to scale. Startup and Scale-up Founder Stories.
Quan CEO Arosha Brouwer on employee wellbeing, Y combinator and traveling.
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Born in SriLanka, raised in Australia and moved to the Netherlands. Arosha spent her career in Management Consulting with PwC and with companies like DSM and TNT. After a few years of consulting organizations on employee well-being, she started Quan Wellbeing together with Lucy Howie. Arosha is the co-founder and CEO of the first ever female-led Dutch to be accepted into Y Combinator, raising a million euros in pre-seed capital.
In this episode, we'll cover the following topics:
- The importance of employee well being for business success;
- What it’s like inside y-combinator, the world's leading startup accelerator
- Traveling… with children.
Links mentioned:
- People: Arosha Brouwer, Lucy Howie, Julian Jagtenberg, Menno Gravemaker, Yoeri Dassen
- Companies: Quan Wellbeing, Y Combinator, PWC, TNT, DSM, Somnox, Airbnb, Doordash, Dropbox, Coinbase, 4Impact, VENGEAN
- Media: Quan from Jerry McGuire , Harvard Business Review - The Great Resignation
- Other: Scale NL Accelerator into US, The Power MBA: tam-sam-som, song: Coldplay - Sky full of Stars
