The Global Nutcracker

Engineering teams don’t scale the same way they used to.

Scaling a company is hard.

This episode explores how growing companies can scale international teams without creating legal, financial, or compliance risks. The conversation focuses on real-world challenges founders face when hiring across borders, including contractor versus employee classification, operating without local entities, and navigating different labour laws. Listeners will gain practical insights into structuring global teams, avoiding common compliance mistakes, and making smarter decisions when expanding into new countries.

This episode focuses on how founders can scale companies across countries while managing cultural differences, communication styles, and legal complexity. It explores why culture is often harder to scale than processes, how regional differences affect teamwork, and what practical steps leaders can take to build trust and consistency across borders. Listeners will learn how to adapt leadership styles, standardise operations without losing flexibility, and choose the right markets for expansion.

Scaling a business that relies on trust is hard.
Scaling it with AI is even harder.

In this episode, Dusan Randelovic, Founder of Propwise, explains how they are helping buyers in real estate while expanding across markets like Portugal and Brazil, without losing the human side of the business.

A conversation about trust, adoption, local markets, and why automation only works when relationships come first.

Scaling a small team sounds simple—until responsibilities grow, routines break, and bringing someone from the outside becomes harder than expected.

In this episode, Omar Badawy, Founder of Covelant, shares the real challenges behind scaling early-stage teams, staying organized under pressure, and building global collaboration across countries.

A grounded, practical conversation for anyone growing a team while growing a product.

In this episode of The Global Nutcracker Podcast, we sit down with Arber Kadia, founder of Patoko, to talk about the realities of building and scaling a super app in underserved markets.

Arber shares what happens when you’re forced to operate a business while still building the product, and why localisation, regulation, payments, and retention quickly become make-or-break factors.

A grounded, honest conversation for founders and operators navigating growth beyond the usual startup playbook.

Skerdi sits down with Nida Khan, CEO of Nash FintechX, to explore how to build and scale a blockchain fintech by working with regulation, banks, and compliance. From carbon markets to global teams and cross-border payments, this episode dives into the real operational side of fintech.

Growing fast feels like success — until the cracks start to show.

In this episode, Una, founder of Heroic Rankings, shares what it really takes to scale after rapid growth: building systems, protecting culture, and knowing when to slow down instead of pushing harder.

A candid conversation about effort, honesty, and the foundations every founder needs to grow for the long run.

In this episode, Skerdi, CMO at Native Teams, talks with Ivan Ivanka, CEO of Markster, and shares why “systems before hiring” became his biggest lesson after operating across multiple countries, paying triple taxes, and managing a fully remote workforce. A sharp, honest conversation for anyone growing beyond borders.