10 episodes
The Scaleup Team Podcast (Powered by Equalture) Equalture
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People, Product and Market. These are the three components that make or break your startup success. Most founders have sleepless nights thinking about their product and market, but what they often tend to forget is the fact that a product can never be built and its fit with the market will never be found if you don’t have an amazing team to do this with. Together.
In this show, Charlotte, Equalture’s Co-Founder and CEO, chats with scaleup founders and CEOs from all over the world about their journey of building a team and the impact that their team has on their business.
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A chat with Florence Founder and CEO Charles Armitage about employee communication and engagement in times of uncertainty.
In this tenth episode, Charlotte chats with Charles Armitage, founder and CEO of Florence - a booking platform for nurses and carers. Florence has, likely most other companies, faced quite some challenging due to COVID-19, which also caused uncertainty within the team. Charles shares his best practices concerning effective team communication to keep his team engaged, as well as how he his experienced this period himself. Since in most countries the second COVID-wave has started, this episode is more relevant than ever.
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A chat with Juro Founder and CEO Richard Mabey about the correlation between a startup's product-market fit and team size.
In this ninth episode, Charlotte chats with Juro's Founder and CEO, Richard Mabey. Juro is a fast-growing scaleup from the UK, developing the #1 contract collaboration platform. During this episode, Richard explains his vision on the correlation between product-market fit and team size, and walks us through Juro's team building adventure. His lesson learned: The slower you hire, the better.
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A chat with Co-Founder and UK's #1 business podcast host Dan Murray about mental wellbeing, leadership and the power of slow hiring.
Dan Murray has an incredible track record. He's founded multiple companies, is investor and advisor, contributes to the Forbes, has UK's #1 business podcast (Secret Leaders), and also started a new company this year: Heights. In this episode, Charlotte chats with Dan about Heights, his personal struggles with mental wellbeing, his leadership style, and finally his very strong vision on the power of slow hiring.
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A chat with Scrive CRO Niklas Fehrm about building a profitable sales team in a tech startup.
In this seventh episode, Charlotte chats with Niklas Fehrm, who is the Chief Revenue Officer at Scrive, a Stockholm-based tech scaleup, building an e-signiture and digital identification platform. Niklas joined Scrive a few years after it was founded with a very clear and challenging mission: Building a commercial team that could help Scrive transition from a startup to scaleup. Niklas shares his milestones, failures and provided Charlotte with highly valuable tips that help startups turn their sales team into their growth engine.
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A chat with Proquo ai Founder & CEO Nadim Sadek about the ambition to grow to $100,000,000 ARR in 2023 through culture.
In this sixth episode, Charlotte chats with Nadim Sadek, Founder & CEO of Proquo ai, a UK-based scalup, developing a brand management platform. Proquo has grown from 30 to 50 people in 6 months and is planning to be with 100 people at the end of 2020 - with the ultimate goal to ensure $100,000,000 ARR in 2023. What highly inspired Charlotte is Nadim's strong focus and vision on company culture: How can you create the culture as a founder and how can you protect this culture when having growing so fast and having distributed teams. Listen to this episode for some highly valuable tips.
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A chat with founder and VC Partner Anouk de Wolff about the role of a founder in a growing team.
In this fifth episode, Charlotte chats with Anouk de Wolff, who has helped dozens of scaleups with their hiring and HR strategies, and is nowadays also partner in a Dutch VC fund. One of the things that Anouk helps scaleup founders with is not only creating and executing a hiring strategy, but also challenging the founders on which position they actually should get within the company. We discuss her view on the role of a founder in a growing team.