On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Robin Daniels, CBO and Product Officer of Zensai.

Key Takeaways:

Personal Branding & Category Building.

Building a movement with strong personal brands.

How to break through the noise?

Building the brand of Executive Team members

How to bridge company branding, personal brands and category building to make your GTM

On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Alexis Normand, CEO at Greenly.

Key Takeaways:

- Raising a $52M B round in a downturn SaaS market

- Scaling the GTM (Go to Market) organization

- How to successfully succeed with inbound marketing

- Content, Content & Content

- Democratizing the access to carbon accounting

- The carbon accounting platform that matches customer needs

- Helping companies to reduce their CO2 emissions

On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Colin Carvey, CEO & Founder of Revedy

Key Takeaways:

The necessary creativity to be successful in business

M&A to open markets and then accelerate them through organic growth

The three ‘P’s’: People, Process and Prioritization

How to successfully lead 88 M&A deals with Vacasa

M&A to open markets and then accelerate them through organic growth

The beauty of bootstrapping Revedy

On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Rob Bier, Smooth Scaling Author.

Key Takeaways:

- What not to do while creating a business

- Rob’s definition of scaling— and how it differs from ‘growing’

- Why the final stage is the hardest one to reach

- How to deal with complexity

- How the CEO role evolves in each stage of growth

- How do you know if you have a high performing team?

#smooth #scaling #leadership

On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with John Than, Founder & CEO at Appficiency

Key Takeaways:

- Coming from Myanmar to Canada when Johnny was 3 years old;

- Representing world class brands as McKinsey, Dun & Bradstreet, Salesforce, Netsuite;

- The foundation and the why behind Appficiency

- The market maker strategy

- How to overcome growth plateaus

- How to transform yourself as the CEO the company needs to scale in each stage

In this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Kimal Singh, Founder & CEO at NDE Solutions.

Key Takeaways

‘The Art of the Start’ on bootstrapping mode: resilience and resourcefulness

Focusing on the right ideal customer profile

How to consider the difficult decision of hiring a CEO to keep scaling the company

Lessons learned scaling up from 0 to $8,5M in just 4 years

To leverage service business to fund your product business

On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Brett Martin, VC at Charge & Co-Founder at Kumospace .

Key Takeaways

Coping with being a Founder at Kumospace and a VC at Charge

Tips to Manage in Person, Hybrid & Remote Teams

How to connect more naturally in a virtual work environment

AI trends that CEOs should be aware

The future of work

On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Andrew Butt, CEO at Enable

Key Takeaways

"Strategically Bootstrapping a Services Business to Fuel Product Organization Growth"

"Scaling from the UK: The Natural Expansion into English-Speaking Markets"

"Transatlantic Transition: Insights from Moving London to Silicon Valley"

"Rapid Growth: Journey from an 80 to a 500-Person Team in 3 Years"

"Fundraising Insights: Lessons Learned on the Path to Success"

"Reinventing Rebates: Transforming Them into a Growth Engine"

San Francisco vs. Silicon Valley: The Decision-Making Process Behind Settling Down"episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with

On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Leo Bottary: Founder & Managing Partner at Peernovation, hailing from sunny San Diego, California, USA and Chris Zhuang: Account Leader at Adaptive Growth Solutions, bringing insights from vibrant Shanghai, China 🇨🇳, Asia

Key takeaways

What Peer Advisory Groups Can Teach Us About Building High Performing Teams

The Power of Peers

Leveraging diversity to improve innovation

How to create a complementary team and create the conditions for people and teams to succeed

Becoming a transcultural leader: no judgement and respect difference.

The role of AI in leadership

On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with John Warrillow, Speaker and Author.

Key Takeaways

The art of selling your business

How to build a company that can thrive without you

What to do after selling your company

The right timing to sell and scale

How to increase the valuation of your company

How to make your company sellable

The different types of entrepreneurs and buyers

What is the Switzerland structure and why is it important