Ben Greenstone, Managing Director at Taso Advisory, and Matt Peake, Global Director of Public Policy at Onfido, discuss the purpose of the policy function in scaleups, and how to make the business see the value of the function.

They cover off the role of a scaleup policy team (1:35), what you need to give the business as a policy professional (2:40), carving out a policy team's internal reputation (3:19), bringing policy insights to product development (5:39), advising the exec team (6:30), balancing the speed of the business with the speed of government (7:11), the differences between large businesses, scaleups and public sector jobs (10:50), bringing on consultants to support your public policy programme (14:50), the "so what" test (17:30), using trade associations (17:50).

Recorded on 19/01/2023.

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