Josh Pigford of Baremetrics shares his lessons in goal setting and focus as a founder, patience, sustainable growth, branding, and what’s next for the company.

Srini Rao of Unmistakable Creative on how to build focus and hone your creativity as a founder

Jun 27th, 2017 23m 29s

Srinivas Rao, Founder of Unmistakable Creative, shares his unique founder journey, how the media company is productizing, and his top lessons learned from interviewing hundreds of the most unmistakable and successful people in the world.

How Balaji Srinivasan of 21.co and a16z sets goals and manages teams

Jun 13th, 2017 26m 41s

Balaji Srinivasan, CEO of 21.co and Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talks about goal-setting, metrics, motivating a team, digital currency, and the future of Bitcoin.

Unbounce’s Oli Gardner on evolving metrics, scaling culture, AI, and more

May 30th, 2017 30m 25s

Oli Gardner of Unbounce shares the future of AI in marketing, the top mistakes he sees founders make, the early marketing decisions that led to their success today, and more.Read the episode highlights here: https://www.geckoboard.com/blog/se

Pipedrive’s co-founder Timo Rein reveals how they segment goals to keep focus

May 17th, 2017 38m 34s

Pipedrive co-founder Timo Rein shares the early product decisions they made to grow into a successful Series B company with 250 employees, as well as how they set goals and hire for character fit. Read highlights here: www.geckoboard.com/blog/s

Tyler Barstow of Vinyl Me Please on how to not be a jerk manager when growing a business

May 9th, 2017 31m 16s

Tyler Bastow, co-founder of Vinyl Me Please - a monthly record subscription club - shares how their customers have grown up with them, how they align their team around the vision, set and track goals, and how they’ve learned to lead and manage

Lessons from Pramod Dabir of West Agile Labs on minimizing technical debt while moving fast

May 2nd, 2017 29m 36s

Pramod Dabir, Co-Founder and CEO of West Agile Labs - a global digital design and development partner - shares what you can do early on for smooth growth, how to align a distributed team around a vision, how to build a sustainable MVP, and more

How the CEO of Makers Academy built a culture based on trust, not fear

Apr 25th, 2017 15m 20s

Evgeny Shadchnev Co-Founder and CEO of Makers Academy, Europe’s leading developer bootcamp, shares how they're building the company on pure trust, not fear. They use unusual tactics to do so, such as self-setting salaries. They also believe tha

How Jon Crawford built and sold Storenvy: his tough lessons learned

Apr 18th, 2017 25m 21s

In this episode, we spoke with Jonathan Crawford, founder and former CEO of Storenvy, an e-commerce marketplace for indie brands. Jon was with the company from day one for six years and learned some hard lessons along the way.He was kicked ou

How Marvel grew to a Series A: lessons on acquiring, hiring, and building a great culture

Apr 12th, 2017 21m 4s

In this episode, we spoke with Murat Mutlu, co-founder and head of design at Marvel. Marvel is a free platform for simple design, prototyping, and collaboration. Here’s a quick company overview:- Founder experience: 4 years- Team size: 31 te

How Ratio's CEO Marc Biles cascades OKRs and keeps them simple

Apr 4th, 2017 20m 43s

For this episode, we spoke with Marc Biles, Founder and CEO of Ratio. Ratio is a software company dedicated to inventing smart products that help make people’s lives better and easier. They’ve made four customer-facing products: an AI tool, an

How Peter Reinhardt scaled Segment to 130 employees by focusing on the long game

Mar 28th, 2017 22m 26s

In this episode of Secrets for Scaling, we chatted with Peter Reinhardt, Co-Founder and CEO of Segment. Segment is a SaaS company helping thousands of companies collect and leverage their customer data. Here’s a quick company overview:- Found

How Verdigris takes a unique, politics-killing approach to team hierarchy

Mar 21st, 2017 22m 54s

For this episode of Secrets for Scaling, we talked with Mark Chung, Co-Founder and CEO of Verdigris. Verdigris is an IoT (internet of things) company that has developed a sensor network helping commercial buildings manage their electrical equip

How FareHarbor scaled to 135 employees by staying true to their culture & hiring smart

Mar 14th, 2017 24m 17s

For this episode of Secrets for Scaling, we spoke with Lawrence Hester, Cofounder and CEO of FareHarbor, an online booking platform for tours and activities. Here’s a quick company overview:- Founder experience: 4 years- Team size: 135+ te

Scaling is a journey: How and why Mobilize built their team after raising a Series A

Feb 28th, 2017 34m 10s

For this episode of Secrets for Scaling, we spoke with Sharon Savariego, Co-Founder and CEO of Mobilize - a software enabling companies to organize and communicate with their external network. Founded in 2014, Mobilize is now a team of 30 with

Recruitee's CEO on how a pivot can lead to scaling

Feb 21st, 2017 28m 17s

For this episode of Secrets for Scaling, we chatted with Perry Oostdam, Co-Founder and CEO of Recruitee - a SaaS product making it easier to hire a team and grow your business. Founded in August 2015, Recruitee now has over 2,000 SME customers

A solo-founder’s journey to 900 customers: an interview with Nick Franklin of ChartMogul

Feb 14th, 2017 33m 20s

In this episode of Secrets for Scaling, we talked with Nick Franklin, Founder and CEO of ChartMogul, a product offering SaaS and subscription reporting, analytics, and metrics. Founded in 2014, ChartMogul now has a team of 21 people with 900 cu

How Price Intelligently used customer data to build empathy and double revenue

Feb 6th, 2017 35m 19s

Founded in 2012, Price Intelligently now has 30 employees and has consistently doubled or more than doubled revenue each year, reaching over $5 million in 2016. They found success by building empathy for their customers and their team through c

How Ghost built a profitable business with a Silicon Valley counterculture approach

Jan 30th, 2017 28m 34s

For this episode of Secrets for Scaling, we spoke with John O’Nolan, the founder of Ghost. Ghost is a fully open source, hackable platform for building and running an online publication. The Ghost story is unique to most S4S episodes in that it

How Wordstream doubles its revenue every year: An interview with Larry Kim

Jan 23rd, 2017 40m 58s

For this episode of Secrets for Scaling, we spoke with Larry Kim, Founder & CEO of Wordstream, the leading industry provider of search marketing management software and services. Wordstream sees a compound yearly revenue growth rate and has mor

Twenty20 learned you have to slow down to grow fast the hard way. Here’s their story!

Jan 16th, 2017 44m 54s

Matt Munson, Co-Founder and CEO of Twenty20, shares their unique road to product-market fit - how they found traction and raised money, how they burnt through it, lessons learned along the way, and how they corrected course towards the sustaina

How Nexba Grew 300% Last Year By Focusing on Internal Strengths and Speed

Jan 9th, 2017 25m 38s

For this episode of Secrets for Scaling, we talked to Drew Bilbe, Co-Founder and CEO of Nexba, Australia's first naturally sweetened Cola, Lemon and Orange Sparkling Infusions. Nexba was inspired by naturally sweetened teas in Mexico when Drew

How Happy Socks Grew to 40 Million Pairs of Socks Sold in 90 Countries

Nov 21st, 2016 22m 51s

For the latest in the Secrets for Scaling series, we talked to Mikael Söderlindh, Co-Founder and CEO of Happy Socks. Happy Socks has 12,000 retail accounts selling socks in 90 countries. On top of that, they have 30-something Happy Socks concep

David Cancel of Drift on hyper-growing a customer-focused company

Nov 7th, 2016 29m 30s

Founder and CEO of Drift, David Cancel shares his secrets to scaling a sustainable company, why it's so important to be customer focused, how they're changing B2B communications, the power of the written word in branding and a ton more!

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