TechDrive ZürichThe tech interview series filmed on the move. Smart people. One car. 20 minutes.
Unheard, personal stories from inside Europe's quiet deep-tech capital!
A 20-minute interview series filmed on the move with the people building Zürich's tech scene. Unscripted. Personal. The stories nobody else asks about.
The concept
The most disarming interview room is a passenger seat.
Side-by-side instead of face-to-face. No eye-contact pressure, road noise to fill the silences, and a clock you can't argue with. That setting is the whole idea, and it's pointed at founders, investors and researchers, not pop stars.
Unscripted
No slides, no media training, no publicist in the back seat. Just the conversation that happens when the city is rolling past the window.
Personal
The angle is the person, not the pitch deck. We go after the unheard story: the doubt, the pivot, the 3am decision.
20 Minutes
One drive, one guest, a hard time limit set by the destination. Tight enough to watch on a commute, deep enough to remember.
Latest episode
Scaling Robots with Purpose | Robert MacKenzie on TechDrive Zurich
Scaling Robots with Purpose | Robert MacKenzie on TechDrive Zurich
In this episode of TechDrive Zurich, I’m taking a drive with deep tech executive and venture partner, Dr. Robert MacKenzie (Ellipsis Ventures, former C-level at ANYbotics, Hocoma, Labster).
All episodes
Every drive so far.
Shorts
Quick cuts from the road.
Host
Justinas Mišeikis
Builder, operator, and relentless interviewer with a PhD in Robotics and an EMBA. Justinas has worked hands on across all three sides of the tech world: inside corporates, deep in research labs, and in the trenches of startups. That mix is rare, and it shapes how he listens. He knows the technical detail well enough to follow anyone, and he cares more about the person than the pitch.
He's also a public speaker who has spent years on stages, which is exactly why he wanted to get off them. After enough polished panels and rehearsed answers, he became convinced the honest conversations happen somewhere else entirely: in a moving car, side by side, with nobody performing.
So that's what TechDrive is. He does the deep research, asks the sharp question, and lets the silences run. It's his attempt to catch the side conversations that usually get lost, the real stories that only surface when two people are just driving somewhere together.
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The guest is the hero. The host is the driver.
TechDrive started from a simple frustration: the best stories in tech never make it onto a stage. They surface in the side conversations: the unguarded ten minutes before the panel, the honest answer in the car on the way to the airport.
So we built the whole show around that moment. One well-prepared driver, one guest from the ecosystem, twenty minutes of road. The research is obsessive; the questions are specific; the goal is the person, never the pitch.
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TechDrive Zürich is an English-language interview series and podcast filmed inside a moving car. Each roughly 20-minute episode features one guest from the Zürich and Swiss tech and startup scene: founders, investors, researchers and operators sharing unscripted, personal stories from inside Europe's quiet deep-tech capital.
Riding Shotgun
A short note when a new episode drops: the guest, the hook, and the one question you won't want to miss. No spam, ever.