{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Syndicate One Podcast","title":"Diversity Isn't a Moral Argument. It's an Innovation One. Dewi Van De Vyver, founder of Flow Pilots and Effex. ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1732,"description":"Every field women enter starts making better products, not just for women but for everyone. \nDewi Van De Vyver no longer argues that diversity is fair; she argues that it works. \nDewi's been building tech companies for 15 years, jumping into startups at Fortis Venturing in 2006, then founding Flow Pilots with three co-founders in 2011 and selling it in 2022, before taking a KU Leuven spin-off out of the lab and turning it into Effex, which Minitab picked up this February. Two exits, two totally different companies. She sits on several boards, helps steer the Flemish STEM Platform, co-founded The Ada Talks, and now she's one of us at Syndicate One. \nDewi sat down with Robin Wauters to talk through the twenty years she's spent inside this ecosystem, and the one thing it still hasn't fixed. \nHere are the highlights: \nWe still design the world as if women are just smaller men, whether it's medicine, cars, or materials. Dewi calls it an engineering failure before it's a moral one. The funding gap isn't VCs refusing to read the deck; it's that the playbook for how venture capital works has always been broadcast in rooms built for men. Growing up in Puurs, she believed there were exactly two safe places to work: the government or Pfizer, and she unpacks what that kind of mantra does to a country's appetite for building things. She has no patience left for founder mistakes that used to be forgivable: be informed, hire people better than you, and know your customer, or admit you're building a bad product. The thing most people get backward: women ran the shops, the bakeries, the businesses. Entrepreneurship was never just a man's field. Somewhere along the way, we unlearned that. Dewi's co-leading something with us that starts from all of this. It's called Untapped. More on that soon. Recorded shortly after Minitab acquired Effex. \nListen. Share it.  \nSyndicate One is a crew of founders, operators, and investors backing Belgian tech. We don't just write cheques. We open...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4XPJC_OlhpLAqf1cyr5lTzx0e48D4V69sVcOyf2o9AE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iYTNk/Yjk5YmUyNGRlY2Vi/ZjJlYTcyYTQyMGYz/MDFjZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}