Boss Level Podcast

For this episode I’m chatting with Niilo Säämänen, the CTO of Wolt. Wolt is a delivery platform company that was recently acquired by DoorDash for billions of dollars. We talk about scaling fast while maintaining an environment focused on developer happiness.

For this episode I’m interviewing Laura Tarkka, the CEO of Gigantti. Gigantti is the largest home electronics retail chain in Finland. Laura has a very interesting career starting in mergers and acquisitions, then moving to the role of a CFO and then CEO. We talk about these transitions and lessons learned along the way.

Interview with Zoe Chance, a Yale professor and author of Influence is Your Superpower.

Interview with bestselling author Rutger Bregman. We discuss how we should move to a more benevolent view of human nature and how that would change the way we run our companies.

Discussion with Josh Seiden on outcomes over outputs. How we should be focused on the change in behavior we want to create and not on the specific things we make.

Interview with Kati Levoranta on power-to-X, contracting, learning and how to keep yourself in good working order.

An interview with Olli Salo, a McKinsey partner, on large-scale agile transformations.

Otto Hilska is a serial entrepreneur and currently the founder and CEO of Swarmia, a platform for accelerating product development. Previously he worked with Smartly and founded Flowdock. We talk about his lessons in running companies.

An interview with retired US Army general Stanley McChrystal. We talk about how to prepare for risks.

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