Scaleup Valley Podcast

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Natalie Zeranska, Head of Marketing Communications & Horizon Z at IMI. Key Takeaways: - Keeping a balance between the present and the future during the pandemic. - Having a lot of conversations to avoid isolation. - How to scale up? A mix between acquisition and organic.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Richard Franzi, Partner of Renaissance Executive Forums. Key Takeaways: - The power of peer groups. - Adding value during COVID-19. - Aligning remote workers and keeping the focus.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Gonzalo Tradacete the Managing Partner at Faraday Venture Partners. Key Takeaways: - How to be a War Time CEO. - Minimizing expenditure during War Time. - Adding value equals survival.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with the Co-CEOs of Talentful. Key Takeaways - Working as Double CEOs - How to redefine priorities during COVID - How to start building a business in the US

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Leo Bottary, the Founder & Managing Partner of Peernovation. Key Takeaways: - The power of peer groups. - How to build a high performative team. - An increase of productivity during lockdown and how to cultivate that after.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Samuel Gil, Partner at JME Ventures. Key Takeaways - Business is about helping everyone. - Being passionate about the problem you are solving. - The importance of vision while making decisions.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Hugo Macedo, VP of Community at Unbabel. Key Takeaways: - The importance of trust in B2B business. - How to scale up replicating processes. - The need to look at other, future options while scaling.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Roland Siebelink, Chief ScaleUp Ally, Coach & Advisor. Key Takeaways: - Practical advice about surviving the COVID crisis. - His theory of moving from exploring to exploiting. - How to help big founders.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Vikas Bhambri, SVP of Global Sales and Customer Experience at Kustomer. Key Takeaways: - How the COVID crisis has redefined communication and leadership. - How to make decisions as a CEO. - How to deal with clients and make sales despite the crisis.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Alberto Martínez Sanguino, VP HR at Schneider Electric Iberia. Key Takeaways: - How to keep delivering services during coronavirus. - How to get back to work and face the economic crisis. - How leadership can step up in times of crisis.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Luis E. Fernández, Co-founder & CEO at TINC CMMS. Key Takeaways: - How the health sector is coping with COVID-19. - How to avoid distraction and focus on your goals. - Tips to improve productivity: The Time Box.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Joe Haslam, Executive Director at IE Business School. Key Takeaways: - How to invest and scale in the Middle East. - How COVID is accelerating changes that were already in motion. - How to act as a coach in these times.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Rahul Kapai, Founder & Chief Agilist at KpiFinit. Key Takeaways: - The importance of simplicity, one of the 12 agile principles. - The concept of being patiently aggressive. - Defining leadership from an agile perspective.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Annemie Ress, the Founder of PurpleBeach. Key Takeaways: - How to change priorities in wartime - The importance of being authentic as a leader - Relationship between Scaleups and Corporates

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Yaekyum Lee, Head of Sales at SendBird. Key Takeaways: How to define priorities with 3 areas that we need to work right now: - Adapting to change in demand - Prioritising existing customers and stakeholders - Product and go to market R&D

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Richard Robinson, a seasoned advisor and investor in the Chinese market. Key Takeaways: - The reaction within the Chinese market towards COVID - How Stoicism can help us during these times - Competition within the Chinese market

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Brad McGinity, Chief Revenue Officer at 15Five. Key Takeaways - The Rules of Thumb for living through times like this: - Always tells the truth - Be as transparent as you can - Celebrate the wins

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Alex Gu, Director at PageGroup China. Key Takeaways - In China, now the challenge is the consumer confidence and exports - since all of the world is in a similar situation. - There are always two sides to every adversity. It is important to put your lens in a commercial way and look for creative solutions to overcome it. - Traffi...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Marc Ferré Hausmann, Managing Director of the Bayer Service Center Barcelona. Key Takeaways - Priorities should be easy to understand and remember. - It's important to have a diverse leadership team with a variety of gender, nationalities and ages, able to adapt to wartime and peacetime. - COVID has accelerated how we meet and wo...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Viviana Silva, VP at ASPPA. Key takeaways: - We need to be global but also pay attention to our communities. - Not everything is disrupted. - You never know who needs help so it’s very important to reach out.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with William Kilmer, Managing Partner at C5 Capital. Key Takeaways - Culture is what drives engagement within the company. - Operational resiliency will be key through this crisis. - Focusing on the well-being of employees and the company, while providing support.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mary Menezes speaks with Sónia Brochado, the Founder & CEO of BTRUST. Key Learnings - The first priority should be to give hope to the team. - Diversity helps to increase our skills. - Invest in knowledge in times of crisis.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Sean Bacon, President of Dynamic Shift. Key Takeaways: - Simple means success. - There are no bad teams - only bad leaders. - This is the best time in the world to be courageous.

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight. Key Takeaways - Focusing on renewal and retention during the crisis - Listen to other CEOs and your customers to understand the challenges they're facing - When the situation changes, you have to change

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with David Hartmann, Senior VP of Growth Ventures at Covestro. 3 Key Takeaways: 1. Learning how to accept mistakes 2. The difference between vulnerability and panic 3. The drive towards circular economy and sustainability