Scaling with Data Malartu

Most successful entrepreneurs will tell you that timing and a bit of luck were the biggest factors to their success. Not many can point to the exact moment their trajectory was changed. In this episode, Sean Steigerwald sits down with Mark Easley who tells us about his career, how it started, and his various run-ins with famous Silicon Valley tech moguls like Steve Jobs, Masayoshi Son, and John Chambers.

There are countless moving pieces to any private investment fund, from managing portfolio company reports to growing your own internal team. Michael Painter tells the story of Plexus Capital's journey from raising a fund right before the Great Recession to commanding a team of over 25 people and almost $1B in funds raised.

Establishing your company's culture is intentional, it's not something that happens organically. We sit down with Ty Hagler, founder and CEO at Trig Innovation, to find out how he uses data to create and maintain a culture of transparency and accountability in his remote team.

Building personal relationships with each and every customer is an effective way to build referrals but a difficult thing to do at scale. It requires stringent systems to be put in place and an all-star team. Josh Haymond, partner at VACO, tells us how he builds his referral network to help scale VACO from $250M-$500M in revenue on almost entirely inbound leads.