Podcast
Oliver Blume - Regeln sind da um gebrochen zu werden: Immobilien, Hotels und Quantencomputing
A conversation with Oliver Blume about rulebreaking as practical work: real estate, modular hospitality, pharmacy automation, and why Germany cannot afford to miss deep technologies such as quantum computing.
In this conversation
Oliver Blume uses entrepreneurship as a way to test the limits of established industries. The conversation moves from real estate and modular hotel concepts to pharmacy automation and quantum computing.
The thread running through the episode is practical rulebreaking: not novelty for its own sake, but the ability to keep moving when a good idea runs into regulation, legacy incentives, public institutions, and slow decision cycles.
Central question
What does it take to work on ideas that are early, inconvenient, or structurally hard to place?
What we cover
- Why the renovation of an old television tower became a way to think about urban living.
- How compact apartments, hotels, and pharmacy automation expose the friction between new models and old rules.
- Why political will and long-term investment matter in areas such as quantum computing.
Guest background
Oliver Blume is an entrepreneur and investor working across real estate, hospitality, pharmacy concepts, and technology. His work shows how different sectors produce similar resistance when business models change.
Things to listen for
- The difference between breaking rules for effect and challenging rules because the system no longer fits the work.
- How much of innovation depends on endurance, not just creativity.
- Why national technology strategy becomes concrete when you look at capital, regulation, and institutional speed.
Two pressures in the work
Existing rules
Building codes, professional conventions, procurement habits, and political incentives define what is easy to do.
New operating models
Modular living, automated services, and deep-tech investment ask whether the old rules still produce the outcomes people need.