Chaos To Clarity

In this episode, Eric is joined by Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel - a Series D startup that provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized Web. At the start of his career, Guillermo taught himself Javascript which led him to receive international job offers at the age of 17. He quickly realized that his true passion was in building comp...

Today’s bonus episode follows the 2 part episode with Mikael Dia, Founder and CEO of Funnelytics - a software that allows you to visually map and analyze how people flow through your marketing funnels.  Eric speaks on how to prioritise the right things when building your product. Although user experience, support and marketing will grow your business, you won’t see profitable outcomes unless your...

Today’s episode continues the conversation with Mikael Dia, Founder and CEO of Funnelytics - a software that allows you to visually map and analyze how people flow through your marketing funnels.  An extremely difficult puzzle that any SaaS company has to solve is finding product-market fit. To better understand their market and generate brand awareness, Funnelytics released their mapping tool for...

In this episode, Eric is joined by Mikael Dia, Founder and CEO of Funnelytics - a software that allows you to visually map and analyze how people flow through your marketing funnels.  Mikael’s background is in Civil Engineering, where he would spend 8 hours a day making autocad drawings - which he absolutely hated. The decision to become an entrepreneur came from a family accident that showed him...

I Asked 5 SaaS C-Suite Executives About Their Leadership Principles.. This episode is a quick recap of parts of the conversations we've had on Chaos To Clarity over the last year. Now we're moving into a new season, focused on Series A and Series B founders and the pivotal moments that took their companies from an idea to capturing venture capital. Stay tuned! Don't forget to subscribe to the Chao...

In this episode, Eric continues the conversation with Katy Trost, CEO Coach/Advisor at Katy Trost, Founder of PeraCEOs, and CEO Coach and Board Member of many other ventures.  Katy works with CEO’s on not only their business strategy, but also their personal brands. One of the common misconceptions she addresses is that a personal brand should not be just about the current venture of that individu...

In this episode, Eric is joined by Katy Trost, CEO Coach/Advisor at Katy Trost, Founder of PeraCEOs, and CEO Coach and Board Member of many other ventures. Katy moved to the United States from Germany 7 years ago and started her US coaching career in New York. She found herself working in the tech industry, and soon located her passion working with leaders that are in the scale up stage. Now she’s...

In this solo episode, which follows the two-part interview with Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer at Pendo.io, Eric talks about the fact that it’s never too early to measure customer success. Too many startups are so laser focused on building products that they end up disregarding customer data, which is the one thing that will accurately show them what to prioritise and build next. Product isn’...

In this episode, Eric continues the conversation with Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer of Pendo.io. Pendo.io is on a mission to elevate the world’s experiences with software, and so far they’ve raised a total of $469.5 million in funding, and have amassed a team of 800+ members. Continuing the conversation on data and measurement, Trisha speaks on how to focus on the right metrics that will dri...

In this episode, Eric is joined by Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer of Pendo.io Pendo.io is on a mission to elevate the world’s experiences with software, and so far they’ve raised a total of $469.5 million in funding, and have amassed a team of 800+ members. Trisha’s journey to becoming the CPO at Pendo starts with her gaining a technical background. She is a math major, and her first role out...

In this solo episode, which follows the two-part interview with Chandika Jayasundara, Co-Founder and CEO of Creately. In this episode Eric talks about the importance of not being afraid of change, and pursuing innovation at all cost. Denying the necessity of adaptation when all signs show that its time to pivot is a huge reason why businesses fail and products fall into obscurity. If you’re a foun...

In this episode, Eric continues the conversation with Chandika Jayasundara, the Co-Founder and CEO of Creately. Creately is a visual collaboration platform that helps teams ideate, plan and execute on an infinite workspace, and as of August 2023 they have reached over 10 million users. During the first part of the conversation, it was established that Chandika is a risk taker. When faced with the...

In this episode, Eric is joined by Chandika Jayasundara, the Co-Founder and CEO of Creately. Creately is a visual collaboration platform that helps teams ideate, plan and execute on an infinite workspace, and as of August 2023 they have reached over 10 million users. Chandika’s founder's journey starts during his childhood - he always had a mind for tech, and loved solving problems using technolog...

In this solo episode, which follows the two-part interview with Krish Ramineni, Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai, Eric discusses the perils of sunk-cost fallacies and the ultimate consequence of over-investing in unfruitful projects: driving your business into the ground.  All too often, founders become excessively attached to the product they've been developing, even when the rational choice would...

This episode of Chaos to Clarity continues the conversation with Krish Ramineni, the Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai. Krish's approach to pricing stems from Atlassian, Calendly, and other product-led giants. The goal is to avoid wasting time on negotiations and keeping pricing transparent to make the enterprise sales cycles more efficient. Krish and Eric dive deep into the concept of eliminating f...

In this episode, Eric is joined by Krish Ramineni, the Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai. Fireflies allows you to record, search, & collaborate across all your meetings in one central place. Krish shares his journey into product management, starting from his college days to working with startups and landing a PM role at Microsoft. Krish chose to go into product management due to the freedom and flex...

In this episode, Eric is joined by Ken Babcock - Co-Founder and CEO of Tango. Tango takes the pain out of documenting processes by automatically generating how-to guides while you work. Ken’s career started in consulting and took a quick turn when he joined Uber in 2014, where he stayed for 4 years. He managed to wear many hats there, which gave him a ton of super valuable experience being part of...

In this episode of Chaos to Clarity, Eric is joined by Marcos Rivera, Founder and CEO of PRICING I/O - a company that assists growth-stage B2B SaaS companies in designing the ideal pricing model for scaling up. Marcos' approach to determining the optimal pricing strategy for your product or service involves combining psychology and math to enable value-based pricing. He has observed that a common...

In this episode of Chaos to Clarity, Eric is joined by Neil Hoyne, Chief Strategist at Google. Neil is an expert at combining data with customer insights to form the ultimate approach for revenue teams. In this episode, Neil provides tactical advice on how you can apply data and metrics correctly in your revenue strategy, and at what stage your company should start investing in data. Neil emphasis...

On this episode Eric is joined by Doug Camplejohn - CEO and Co-Founder of Airspeed Doug is a veteran in the Tech space -  starting his career in Apple, and moving up the ladder to becoming an executive at Salesforce and LinkedIn. Doug is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded 4!!! companies. 3 of those companies - Mi5 Networks, Fliptop and Myplay - all ended up being acquired by enterprises. H...

In this episode Eric is joined by Alfonso de la Nuez - Co-Founder of UserZoom and Board Member of UserTesting, and the Author of The Digital Experience Company Both companies famously merged in April of 2023 to Help Organizations Build Human-Centered Experiences for All. With how easy it’s become to build software, neglecting User Experience will bring you a very undesirable churn rate due to your...

In this episode joining Eric is Sujan Patel - Co-Founder of Mailshake. Sujan is a serial entrepreneur, who typically oversees  Product and the GTM motion within the companies he launches. While Sujan typically wears many hats in his ventures, the ace up his sleeve is his personal brand - 40k+ followers on LinkedIn, 50k+ subscribers to his newsletter, and a team that publishes anywhere from 50-75 p...

Today joining Eric is Abi Noda, CEO & Co-Founder of DX - The developer insights platform designed by researchers. Abi was a developer for 6 years prior to moving into management and truly experiencing the friction between dev teams and management. The problem we discussed is that development teams and engineers are often measured on outdated and ineffective metrics that cause more harm than good....

This episodes guest is Jasmine Ober, CEO of Pitch Genius. Jasmine started Pitch Genius based on the difficulties she saw companies face when pitching for investment. To attempt to fill this market gap, she started a service that helps startups nail their pitch and land the ever elusive capital opportunities that they’ve worked so hard to get. During this episode, we identified over 30 different pi...

On this episode of the Chaos to Clarity podcast, host Eric Weiss chats with tech entrepreneur Brett Barlow, CEO of Everee. Originally on a sports marketing path, Brett's unexpected detour into advertising taught him valuable lessons about the unpredictable world of startups and the importance of customer-centric strategies.       They unpack the realities and challenges of leading a company from s...