Martijn built his early career helping lead Endemol through its IPO and international growth before becoming an investor, and he now draws on nearly 30 years of dealmaking and about 100 transactions, often deciding within 20 minutes whether a founding team can handle the pressure of a crisis. His view on AI focuses on strengthening frontline workers in fields like healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics rather than replacing jobs, and he regularly travels to the US and China to study how AI is being built and adopted on the ground.