As promised during some of the previous episodes, we went to Tartu for sTARTUp Day 2024 and brought back a recording of a fireside chat with Kaarel Kotkas.

Kaarel is the founder and CEO of Veriff, one of the more recent Estonian unicorns that raised a 100m$ series C in early 2022 to hit the billion valuation mark. The 2 years that have followed have been very challenging and we sat down with Kaarel to talk about getting through challenging times, making tough decisions and building resilience,

What you can expect to learn from Kaarel:

• What to do when you see warning signs of market slowdown
• Strategies for keeping revenue up and growing during a downturn
• How to manage investor relationships
• The decision-making process and aftermath of doing 2 layoffs in 1 year
• Taking extremely hard decisions and moving on as a leader and a company
• How to define success when you have reached unicorn status

TIMESTAMPS:

• 01:00 sTARTUp Day 2024 impressions
• 10:00 Fireside chat with Kaarel
• 35:00 Uldis & Janis recaps the main lessons from the interview

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