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July 03, 2020

How to Truly Collaborate Remotely, René Lönngren - Director at Mural

45 minutes

In this episode, Ross and John speak with René Lönngren, Director of Europe at Mural. Rene has founded no less than 8 companies and been a mentor to many more undertaking serious scale. Now at Mural, he’s leading the change by enabling over 100,000 users in the Enterprise to collaborate remotely. Today, Mural’s customers include Spotify, SAP, IBM, Software.AG & booking.com.

In this episode we cover:

Capturing the early opportunities on the web in the late 90’s

‘Remote’ before ‘Remote’ was a thing

The different types of sales need vs want and creating demand

The digital whiteboard is the crux of taking offline - online

What actually makes a meeting productive and why

Collaborating across hundreds of thousands!

Leadership through a partnership, encouragement not enablement

What surprising industries are collaborating remotely today

Metrics that matter

Who are René heroes and how he dealt with overcoming internal mindset challenges

Setting the tone for remote culture