Secrets for Scaling

Josh Pigford of Baremetrics shares his lessons in goal setting and focus as a founder, patience, sustainable growth, branding, and what’s next for the company.

Srinivas Rao, Founder of Unmistakable Creative, shares his unique founder journey, how the media company is productizing, and his top lessons learned from interviewing hundreds of the most unmistakable and successful people in the world.

Balaji Srinivasan, CEO of 21.co and Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talks about goal-setting, metrics, motivating a team, digital currency, and the future of Bitcoin.

Oli Gardner of Unbounce shares the future of AI in marketing, the top mistakes he sees founders make, the early marketing decisions that led to their success today, and more.

Read the episode highlights here: https://www.geckoboard.com/blog/secrets-for-scaling-unbounce-oli-gardner-podcast/

Pipedrive co-founder Timo Rein shares the early product decisions they made to grow into a successful Series B company with 250 employees, as well as how they set goals and hire for character fit. Read highlights here: www.geckoboard.com/blog/secrets-for-scaling-pipedrive-timo-rein-podcast

Tyler Bastow, co-founder of Vinyl Me Please - a monthly record subscription club - shares how their customers have grown up with them, how they align their team around the vision, set and track goals, and how they’ve learned to lead and manage founder stress without bumming their team out.

Hear the whole story above or read episode highlights here: https://www.geckoboard.com/blog/secrets-for-scaling-tyler-barstow-vinyl-me-please-podcast/

Pramod Dabir, Co-Founder and CEO of West Agile Labs - a global digital design and development partner - shares what you can do early on for smooth growth, how to align a distributed team around a vision, how to build a sustainable MVP, and more. Listen to the full episode or read the highlights here:

Here’s a quick company snapshot:

- Founder experience: 6 years

- Team size: 150 team members

- Customers / Revenue: 40 clients

- Company founded: December 2012 (5 years old)

Evgeny Shadchnev Co-Founder and CEO of Makers Academy, Europe’s leading developer bootcamp, shares how they're building the company on pure trust, not fear. They use unusual tactics to do so, such as self-setting salaries. They also believe that everyone should have a job they love and do everything they can to ensure that’s true for their employees and the developers who graduate their program.

Here’s a quick company snapshot:

- Founder experience: 9 years

- Team size: 24 team members

- Traction: Graduated more than 1,000 developers over the last four years and worked with hundreds of companies

- Company founded: December 2012 (4 years old)

Learn about how they’ve reached profitability by focusing on trust and autonomy in the full episode!

In this episode, we spoke with Jonathan Crawford, founder and former CEO of Storenvy, an e-commerce marketplace for indie brands. Jon was with the company from day one for six years and learned some hard lessons along the way.

He was kicked out of Y-Combinator on the first day. He built his first team only to let them go all at once. He heard many “no”s from investors. He learned about what’s important to him - what he wants to do as a founder and what he doesn’t. He learned what makes him happy.

When he left in 2016 after selling the company, it was at 30 team members with 130,000 stores open on the platform and millions of dollars flowing through it per month. Hear the whole story in the full episode!

In this episode, we spoke with Murat Mutlu, co-founder and head of design at Marvel. Marvel is a free platform for simple design, prototyping, and collaboration. Here’s a quick company overview:

- Founder experience: 4 years

- Team size: 31 team members

- Traction: 1 million users, adding 1,500 new users/day

- Company founded: November 2013 (3 years old)

- Stage: Series A

Having recently raised a Series A of about $5 million, Marvel is in a critical stage of growth. They recognize that they need to find what works for them and have developed processes and frameworks early on so they can scale their business and culture. Learn more in the full episode!

Photo by Joe Watts: http://joewatts.co/design-club-26-04-16