Scale-up Confessions

Lina Olea is a mission-driven Marketer, currently serving as Marketing Director for UK Hospitality wifi and data insights provider, Wireless Social. Lina is well known professionally for her creativity and resilience, having worked in seven different countries and now spent 5 years in the tech start-up world. However, in this episode of the First-time Founders podcast, she talks about one of her less well-known experiences - being married to (and co-parent with) Yapster Co-founder CEO, Rob Liddiard (and also brother to Juan, another software entrepreneur)!  

This episode should be useful to both existing and aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as their spouses. Further, Lina talks openly about the challenges of working in the startup world at the same time as starting a family.  

Interested listeners can reach Lina (https://www.linkedin.com/in/linaolea/) by emailing [email protected] or Rob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertlid...) at [email protected]

Steve Carpenter spent 30 years leading people functions for fast-growth businesses like TGI Fridays, Pret A Manger, Caffè Nero, Hotel Chocolat, and Krispy Kreme (Caffè Nero grew ten-fold in his decade as their HR lead and Krispy Kreme doubled in size whilst Steve was their People & Culture Director), hiring thousands of people and procuring a wide range of products and services along the way.

In this episode of the First-time Founders podcast, Steve details how and why he decided to be one of Yapster's early customers and explains how other first-time founders can break into big brands, with nascent propositions.

Interested listeners can reach Steve (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carpentersteve) by emailing [email protected] or Rob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertliddiard/) at [email protected]