205 Stijn Markusse - Raising €4M in 72 hours to scale boring distribution and storytelling

A conversation with Stijn Markusse, founder of Boerschappen together with his partner Stéphanie Vellekoop, about distribution, packing boxes, telling amazing stories, paying the farmers' invoices on time, and making sure you also do that in 2-, 5- or 10-years’ time so that the farmer can invest in long term regenerative practices.
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Chapters

• 2:50 Why are you doing what you are doing? Why Soil?
• 35:59 How he raised 4m in 72 hours?
• 48:42 What should smart investors, who want to invest in regenerative agriculture and food look out for?
• 1:03:15 If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing in the agriculture industry from a sustainability point of view, what would it be?