Devika

Build and Scale with Devika

Business AF ↓ 6 episodes

Build and Scale with Devika reveals the unexpected, rarely shared realities of growing a technology startup. Hosted by Ken Kencevski, founder of award-winning tech company Devika, each episode spotlights founders who turned bold ideas into multi-million dollar products with serious growth and exit potential. These aren’t your typical success stories... Through candid interviews, we explore how they built scalable tech, raised capital, and found product-market fit, often starting with just a pitch deck. New episodes every fortnight.

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Rich Bell: Building and Scaling Businesses Across Industries 24.05.2026 36:59

Rich Bell grew up in a fourth-generation family business and has built his career as a co-founder, investor, and CEO across childcare, technology, education, fitness, and wellness. In this episode, Rich shares the commercial and operational lessons he’s learned from scaling businesses through different stages of growth — from helping grow a childcare group from 5 to 50 centres and more than 1,500...

From over 50 Studios to a Scalable Tech Venture: Jordan McCreary 20.10.2025 34:59

After a decade of scaling and operating over 50 fitness studios across four countries, Jordan McCreary founded CONDITN. to redefine performance training through data, evidence, and technology. In this episode, Jordan shares what he learned from building a physical fitness empire and how he’s now using technology to improve retention, personalise training, and lay the groundwork for global scale. Y...

From Hospitality Operator to $100M+ in Transactions: Paul Pisani 06.10.2025 34:18

What started with a bill for some buzzers in a chicken shop became ClevaQ: a mobile-first B2B platform now powering $100M+ in transactions across 200+ venues. In this episode, founder Paul Pisani shares how he went from running cafés and managing portfolios to launching a scalable tech product with minimal churn and deep industry adoption. From bootstrapping his MVP to raising capital through fami...

From Teenage Exit to Scaling with Amazon - Zeryab Cheema 22.09.2025 27:41

At just 19, Zeryab Cheema sold his first tech startup for 7 figures. But instead of stepping back, he went bigger - founding HOP, a transport and logistics platform now powering Amazon’s last-mile delivery in NSW and partnering with global governments to modernise mobility. In this episode, Zeryab shares the mindset behind his early success, how he pivoted HOP from rideshare to B2B infrastructure,...

How Glean Became a Global Fitness App with Evan Daly 08.09.2025 24:27

After a career-ending injury as a jockey, Evan Daly rebuilt his life from the ground up. First as a personal trainer, then as the co-founder of Glean, a health and wellness app with thousands of subscribers. In this episode, Evan shares the full story: the unexpected pivot from personal training to technology entrepreneur, how he scaled a business with no technical background, and why community wa...

Steve Shelley – Building a $1B Tech Unicorn & Shaping Australian Motorsport 25.08.2025 41:58

Steve Shelley started his career cleaning planes and went on to build one of Australia’s largest aviation ground handling businesses, AeroCare, before co-founding Deputy; a workforce management platform valued at over $1 billion and used by businesses all around the world. Now, he’s applying that same winning playbook to his passion for motorsport. As the owner of New South Wales’ premier racing c...