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The Blunt DollarManuel Grenacher: The Rise of Agentic AI, and the Fall of Traditional FinanceIn this episode of The Blunt Dollar, I sit down with Manuel Grenacher, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Unique, a company revolutionizing financial services with agentic AI. Manuel shares his journey from building startups in Switzerland to leading one of the most exciting AI-driven companies in finance today. We dive deep into how AI is reshaping the industry, where the biggest disruption opportunities lie, and why empathy remains irreplaceable by machines.Key topics we cover:🔹 What is agentic AI and how it goes beyond ChatGPT🔹 How Unique is helping financial institut...2025-06-031h 01
Prantls 5A | Strategie-Spotlight auf einzigartige IT-UnternehmenKI – Once in a Lifetime-Chance für IT'ler, man muss sie nur packen | Mit Manuel Grenacher, Urban Lankes und Dean MartiKünstliche Intelligenz ist seit der Einführung von ChatGPT vor zwei Jahren in den Medien dauerpräsent. Seither herrscht ein regelrechter Hype, der zwischen totaler Euphorie und absoluter Untergangsstimmung hin und her oszilliert. Eine Studie über die Vor- und Nachteile von KI und ihren praktischen Einsatz in den Unternehmen jagt die nächste. Trotzdem ist maximal unklar, welchen konkreten Nutzen KI künftig stiften wird.
Eines zeichnet sich aber bereits jetzt klar ab. Für IT- und Softwareunternehmen als bevorzugte Provider von KI-Technologie handelt es sich um ein Jahrhundertereignis, welches das künftige Geschäft massiv antreiben wird. KI dürfte mi...2024-12-1038 min
Baloise Talk#14 KI in Finanz und Versicherungsbranche - mit Manuel Grenacher von UniqueZu Gast im Baloise KASKO Talk Podcast bei Till Schaltegger von Baloise, und Nikolaus Sühr von KASKO ist dieses Mal Manuel Grenacher, CEO & Co-Founder der Unique AG. Das 2021 gegründete Startup entwickelt KI-basierte Lösungen zur Automatisierung und Optimierung von Geschäftsprozessen, insbesondere in der Kundenkommunikation und im Finanzsektor. Im Gespräch mit Till und Nick teilt Manuel seine Erfahrungswerte zum Einsatz von KI im eigenen Unternehmen – beispielsweise in der Softwareentwicklung im Kundenkontakt als Möglichkeit der Effizienzsteigerung durch Automatisierung, um mehr Zeit mit den Kunden und weniger Zeit mit administrativen Aufgaben zu verbringen. Zudem mache...2024-10-2247 min
Swisspreneur ShowEP #59 - Manuel Grenacher: How To Grow Your B2B BusinessTimestamps
2:10 - What mistakes do you see Swiss startups make repeatedly when it comes to growth and scale?
11:27 - How to manage distribution partners
17:28 - Marketing and customer service: can you handle it remotely?
22:30 - Challenges of scaling up
31:56 - What role does company culture play when it comes to scaling?
The Episode In 60 Seconds
Getting the basics right
Don’t underestimate how long it will take you to build sales channels. Invest time into developing them at the same time as you are developing yo...2020-02-1944 min
Swisspreneur ShowEP #58 - Manuel Grenacher: A Swiss Serial EntrepreneurTimestamps:
2:24 - Going from founder to employee
17:36 - How doing an apprenticeship helped him with his startup
33:19 - Building an international brand
38:57 - Starting a spin off of his own company
47:42 - Manuel Grenacher's future plans
About Manuel Grenacher:
Manuel Grenacher is the founder and fmr. CEO of Coresystems, a cloud solution that helps companies to source and coordinate technicians for customer service. In 2017, Siemens decided to use Coresystems to digitize their global customer service technicians network. Subsequently, in 2018, Coresystems was bought by SAP, where Manuel...2020-02-1258 min
Punk CX: Customer Experience Insights with Adrian SwinscoeHow to enhance, extend and crowd source your in-field customer service - Interview with Manuel Grenacher of MilaToday’s interview is with Manuel Grenacher, who is the founder & CEO of Mila, a technology company which is helping large organisations crowd source their customer service and build extended service communities around their products and services. Manuel joins me to today to talk about what they are doing, why they are helping companies create those extended customer service communities and how they are doing it.
This interview follows on from my recent interview – Next generation marketing automation that drives real customer engagement- Interview with Michael Sharkey and Guy Marion of Autopilot– and is number 158 in the series...2019-12-0927 minPunk CX: Customer Experience Insights with Adrian SwinscoeBehavioural science, customer experience and why we should test more things - Interview with Rory Sutherland of #ogilvychangeToday’s interview is with Rory Sutherland who is Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather UK and co-founder of #ogilvychange. The Ogilvy & Mather Group UK is made up of 10 companies that work across a range of marketing disciplines. #ogilvychange is their specialist behavioural science practice that uses the latest thinking in cognitive psychology, social psychology and behavioural economics to help their clients create behavioural change in the real world.
Rory is a leading thinker in the marketing and advertising space and a huge proponent of how the application of insights from cognitive psychology and behavioural economics can positively imp...2019-12-0957 min