Aug 5, 2026 · 9 min · 9 segments
Season 07 of Startup Passport by Frontwalker continues with Episode 13 – Sjoerd van Berkel, Co-founder and Operator of Dutch Operator Fund. From building his own companies to becoming an angel…
Sjoerd van BerkelGuestHost, Startup PassportHostAnd, and now that you're still involved in, uh, education around entrepreneurship, uh, well, there's, there's always a little bit of a, of a debate if you, you know, can you teach entrepreneurship or is it just something that you, you know, it's a, is it a mindsets thing? Is it the thing that you kind of just like, like learning by doing and you just have to throw yourself out there and do it? So what's your, what's your stance on this a-around like academia and education on it, uh, on entrepreneurship?
And yes, you definitely have these exceptions of founders that, uh, quit school quite early on and build massive, uh, unicorn companies.
Uh, like I said, I mentioned my co-founder, uh, built up a great network, uh, which was valuable back then and still is.
And it also teaches you, I think, a toolkit that left or right you will use during your journey as an entrepreneur.
Um, and yeah, this program was designed for me in the sense that it was, yeah, highly relevant, uh, I would say.
And, and now that you're still involved in, uh, education around entrepreneurship, uh, well, there's, there's always a little bit of a, of a debate if you, you know, can you teach entrepreneurship or is it just something that you, you know, it's a, is it a mindsets thing? Is it the thing that you kind of just like, like learning by doing and you just have to throw yourself out there and do it? So what's your, what's your stance on this a-around like academia and education on it, uh, on entrepreneurship?
And yes, you definitely have these exceptions of founders that, uh, quit school quite early on and build massive, uh, unicorn companies.
Uh, like I said, I mentioned my co-founder, uh, built up a great network, uh, which was valuable back then and still is.
And it also teaches you, I think, a toolkit that left or right you will use during your journey as an entrepreneur.
Um, and yeah, this program was designed for me in the sense that it was, yeah, highly relevant, uh, I would say.
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