On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Yaekyum Lee, Head of Sales at SendBird.

Key Takeaways: How to define priorities with 3 areas that we need to work right now:

- Adapting to change in demand

- Prioritising existing customers and stakeholders

- Product and go to market R&D

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Richard Robinson, a seasoned advisor and investor in the Chinese market.

Key Takeaways:

- The reaction within the Chinese market towards COVID

- How Stoicism can help us during these times

- Competition within the Chinese market

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Brad McGinity, Chief Revenue Officer at 15Five.

Key Takeaways - The Rules of Thumb for living through times like this:

- Always tells the truth

- Be as transparent as you can

- Celebrate the wins

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Alex Gu, Director at PageGroup China.

Key Takeaways

- In China, now the challenge is the consumer confidence and exports - since all of the world is in a similar situation.

- There are always two sides to every adversity. It is important to put your lens in a commercial way and look for creative solutions to overcome it.

- Traffic in China has gotten worse because people are more wary. They don’t want to take public transportation; they'd rather take a car.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Marc Ferré Hausmann, Managing Director of the Bayer Service Center Barcelona.

Key Takeaways

- Priorities should be easy to understand and remember.

- It's important to have a diverse leadership team with a variety of gender, nationalities and ages, able to adapt to wartime and peacetime.

- COVID has accelerated how we meet and work - in the future offices will be mainly meeting rooms, where people could meet, discuss and move forward.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Viviana Silva, VP at ASPPA.

Key takeaways:

- We need to be global but also pay attention to our communities.

- Not everything is disrupted.

- You never know who needs help so it’s very important to reach out.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with William Kilmer, Managing Partner at C5 Capital.

Key Takeaways

- Culture is what drives engagement within the company.

- Operational resiliency will be key through this crisis.

- Focusing on the well-being of employees and the company, while providing support.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mary Menezes speaks with Sónia Brochado, the Founder & CEO of BTRUST.

Key Learnings

- The first priority should be to give hope to the team.

- Diversity helps to increase our skills.

- Invest in knowledge in times of crisis.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Sean Bacon, President of Dynamic Shift.

Key Takeaways:

- Simple means success.

- There are no bad teams - only bad leaders.

- This is the best time in the world to be courageous.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight.

Key Takeaways

- Focusing on renewal and retention during the crisis

- Listen to other CEOs and your customers to understand the challenges they're facing

- When the situation changes, you have to change