Scaling So Far

In series 2 episode 9 of “Scaling So Far”, Matt Ellis is joined by Marcus Granström, Senior Director of Engineering at Swedish Fintech decacorn Klarna. 

Now valued at a staggering $10.6billion, Klarna is the highest-valued private Fintech company in Europe today, #5 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 List for 2020, and more recently launched its global Giveone.com platform, bringing to life a 1% pledge for the planet. 

A close buddy and long-time partner of Scede's, Matt speaks to Marcus in-depth about their scaling journey so far, including: 

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In series 2 episode 8 of “Scaling So Far”, Marisa Bryan is joined by David Eberle, CEO & Co-Founder of Typewise. 

Swiss-based Typewise is a DeepTech company on a mission to make daily lives easier by decoding human thoughts. 

Named a CES 2021 innovation awards honouree, the Typewise app has already been downloaded 500,000 times and is being used by 130,000+ active listeners.

Marisa chats to David about some key topics, including: 

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In series 2 episode 7 of “Scaling So Far”, Matt Ellis is joined by Michail Katkoff, CEO & Co-Founder of Savage Game Studios. 

Having scaled kick-ass teams with the likes of Supercell, Rovio, Zynga & Fun Plus, & launched Deconstructor of Fun - the #1 site for those making free-to-play games - Michael is widely considered an incredible mind in the gaming industry. 

And we couldn't agree more.

Now CEO & Co-Founder of his very own mobile games company - Savage Game Studios - which launched in 2020 & earlier this year raised their $4.4m Seed round, Michael chats to Matt about some key topics, including: 

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In series 2 episode 6 of “Scaling So Far”, Marisa Bryan is joined by Kamil Tamiola, Founder and CEO of Peptone. 

Biotech company Peptone is building the world's first Protein Engineering Operation System (PeOS) that combines generative AI with state-of-the-art computational molecular physics.

Following their $2.5 million Seed raise earlier this year - backed by Hoxton Ventures, Founders Factory, and dRx Capital - Kamil chats to us about their scaling plans for the future, his experience transitioning from the role of Scientist to Founder, and how they're bringing together some of the brightest minds to join them on their mission.  

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In series 2 episode 5 of “Scaling So Far”, Matt Ellis is joined by Matt Moralo-Langan, Talent Team Lead at Personio. 

HR Tech unicorn Personio is valued at $1.7bn following their Series D raise in January 2021 - officially making them the most valuable HR Tech company in Europe. 

Matt shares some of his learnings from the last decade scaling teams at Personio, as well as Airbnb, Atlassian, and Facebook. He chats through how they'll go about increasing their Dublin headcount five-fold over the next 12 months, and what you can do as a scaleup leader to ensure your talent and people function becomes a strategic partner to the wider org. 

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In series 2 episode 4 of “Scaling So Far”, Matt Ellis is joined by David Smith, VP of People at Cleo.

AI-powered fintech company Cleo saw huge wins in 2020, achieving 400% revenue growth and raising a super impressive $44million Series B led by EQT Ventures. 

David shares what's on their agenda as they scale their team throughout 2021, some of his learnings from the likes of Trainline and Wonga, launching new markets from a Talent and People perspective, and when the right time is to build out your management and executive layer. 

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In series 2 episode 3 of “Scaling So Far”, Marisa Bryan is joined by Jessie Scheepers, Head of People at Pleo.

Founded in Copenhagen in 2015, fintech company Pleo is the spending solution for forward-thinking teams everywhere. Their smart credit cards empower thousands of businesses across Europe. Today, they have 13,000+ customers across 6 markets - and offices in Copenhagen, London, Stockholm, Berlin, and Madrid. 

Marisa chats to Jessie about her journey at the business so far; how she set up their people function when they were just 40 people, scaled that to support a distributed team of 200+ employees, her thoughts on the evolution of company culture, authentic leadership, and keeping things human - especially as they look to their high-growth road ahead. 

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In series 2 episode 2 of “Scaling So Far”, Matt Ellis is joined by Guy Franklin, Talent Acquisition Director at Graphcore. 

UK-headquartered AI unicorn Graphcore is at the forefront of the machine intelligence revolution, enabling innovators from all industries to expand human potential with IPU tech. Recently, the company raised a staggering $222 million series E to bolster their next phase of growth. 

Formerly Global TA Lead at Dyson, Guy joined Graphcore in 2019 and is now responsible for all recruitment activity at the company - focusing hugely on maintaining their high-bar hiring mentality and securing the right people to help them to achieve their mission. 

He and Matt chat about his learnings scaling teams so far, what they'll be focusing on from a talent and people perspective in 2021, and why it's important to up-level your approach to management and leadership development at the early stages. 

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In series 2 episode 1 of “Scaling So Far”, Marisa Bryan is joined by Simon de Jesus Rodrigues, Chief of Staff at Curio. 

Founded in 2016 by Govind Balakrishnan, an ex-BBC strategist, and Srikant Chakravarti, a former solicitor, London-based Curio offers a curated library of journalism translated into and presented as audio, letting listeners get their daily fix of news and analysis.

Having previously held the Chief of Staff role at high-growth prop-tech startup Nested, Simon has a tonne of experience partnering closely with Founders and CEOs to delivering scaling success.

He and Marisa chat about the nature of his current role, how he operates cross-functionally, why you shouldn't hire great people and get out of the way, and the power of listening. 

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In episode #20 of “Scaling So Far”, Marisa Bryan is joined by Alex Duell, Head of Talent at Cutover.

Cutover is the Index Ventures and Barclays funded leader in work orchestration and observability. Founded in 2015, Cutover has since raised around $20 million, most recently with a $17 million Series A to bolster client engagement and product development.

Having scaled teams at Dropbox, The Business of Fashion, and Beamery over the years, Alex is now leading the People/Talent function at Cutover as they embark on a seriously exciting chapter of growth building commercial and engineering teams in both London and NYC.

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