“If you want your team to work at a good cadence, you need to lead by example. You need to set the right rhythms within your team and never miss a meeting. Others will understand the importance of setting this pace. If you don’t stick to your word, rhythms become a distraction.”

New episode of the podcast featuring Ryan Foland, Speaker & Author! Key Takeaways: - Relatability as a main strength as a leader - How to articulate your value proposition with the 3-1-3 method - Empower your employees: everyone solves a problem open.spotify.com/episode/1BBCQi…

"If you want to scale up, you need to know what you do 100% right and then replicate that. But just that. If that core is not perfect, then don't bother trying to scale it. Make the core work like a machine and replicate it. The less complexity there is, the easier it will be."

"Truly exceptional organizations should be able to explore at the same time that they exploit. When we talk about execution, we talk about exploiting - but we should be able to explore a little bit to be disruptive. The tricky thing is to find that balance."

“If the decisions you make are highly important, probably you need to make less of them." - Joe Haslam, Executive Director, IE Business School on the Scaleup Valley podcast

New episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast is out featuring Henrik-Jan van der Pol, Co-founder & CEO at Perdoo Key Takeaways: - The importance of having a conscious strategy - Setting annual themes for the company - How to cascade OKRs open.spotify.com/episode/3pjxOF…

“The road to success for a VC or for a company is completely uncharted. You are trying to do something new, something imaginative. And you just don’t know what obstacles will be in the way.” - Chris Wade of Isomer Capital on the Scaleup Valley podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5bKNMU…

“We cannot keep doing what we were doing before. When the situation changes, you have to change. We had to change our execution plan for this year because everything changed." Check out Nick Mehta on the Scaleup Valley podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/04GXEV…

New episode! With Guenia Gawendo, Managing Director at Telefonica Ventures. Key Takeaways: - What value do Venture Corporates add to the table? - The advantage (and challenge) of finding the right people in the States - Recurrent revenue while scaling up open.spotify.com/episode/0GSsia…

New episode with Deepa Bachu, Co-founder & CEO of Pensaar Design. Key takeaways: - The importance of truly understanding customers using Design Thinking - Considering alternative ideas in the decision-making process - Emotional metrics over vanity metrics open.spotify.com/episode/1egBu8…

"Who owns the Net Revenue Retention Number?" According to Rav Dhaliwal of Crane this is the key metric to ensuring the long-term viability of any SaaS start-up and the question that all contemporary founders should ask themselves. Read more here: ravsterd.medium.com/the-missing-pi…

New episode featuring Kristi Faltorusso, VP of Customer Success at ClientSuccess! Key takeaways: - Focusing on the retention engine - Grouping your customers according to potential and growth, not only by size or sales - Democratization of data lnkd.in/d5y75KK

I'm excited to be representing the Scaleup Valley podcast through a Masterclass at eBizstart 2021 tomorrow, June 16th! During this session, I'll be presenting live the principles of scaling from 1M to 100M. Join us there: bizstart.com.my

New episode is out with Dave Jackson, Interim CCO at Deepcrawl is now called Lumar! Key takeaways: - Don't overcomplicate your product - Customer Success is not about customers, it’s about people - How to design metrics that foster collaboration open.spotify.com/episode/1FZRS7…

New episode is out with Jorge Poyatos, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Seedtag Key takeaways: - Growing inorganically during wartime - A combination of promoting the right people and hiring senior roles - How to manage growth in different European markets open.spotify.com/episode/6TOMf6…

"For us, it is more important to know that a company has a critical mass in one city than to have demand or supply all over the place. You have to know what your strategy is; there’s no point in having customers all over the world if you don’t achieve volume in one market."

New episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast is out featuring Arthur Nobel - B2B SaaS Investor at Knight Capital. Key takeaways: - How to deal with failure scaling up - HR learnings from the investor point of view - Do we need a Head of Scaling? open.spotify.com/episode/0lujlH…

"Data is really your friend because it helps you to identify what direction to take. It gives you signals to identify opportunities, so I think that getting that data and insights in place is really important. Plus, building the capability to get the data in an immediate way."

New episode with Fernando Amaral, VP of Marketing at Landbot Learnings: - Everyone knows that focus is important until the moment it's put in practice - What defines your culture is what you allow to happen - Strengthening team culture in the office open.spotify.com/episode/40fkqX…

New episode with Camilla Andersson, Investor and Founder at Feddie Distillery! - Leading by example and being a role model as a leader. - What can we learn from a company funded and invested by women? - What challenges do women face while scaling? 👉open.spotify.com/episode/62NAgr…