Talent Agnostic

This week we sat down with Stephen Pendrell, CRO at Qudo (a leading MarTech startup). After starting his career in media sales at Ebay, he moved into the world of high growth SaaS vendors where he has held several leadership positions at early stage startups such as Adbrain, Trigg Digital and Clint where he has helped build out their sales and revenue engines. He specifically brings a wealth of experience helping startups move away for founder-led sales. We covered a whole host of topics, including: How to motivate your team during a downturn, assessing candidates for attitude and how to use creativity to break through in a noisey world.

This week we sat down with Kai-Tse (KT) Lin, Co-Founder at Bellwether Industries, a leading startup within the urban mobility space that is looking to create a new category of urban aircrafts (aka flying cars). With an intelligent mobility and industrial design background, he has been developing urban aircraft for years. Nominated in the Power Book 2023 by eVTOL Insights, KT is currently focusing on allocating resources globally and leading the innovative operations strategy at Bellwether to support the expansion of the business across the UK and Taiwan. Check out our website for more value! : https://www.gig-start.com

Introducing Marco Consolaro, Co-Founder of Alcor Academy and Co-Author of Agile Technical Practices Distilled. An expert in software delivery, Marco started his career as a software engineer, working both at startups like YOOX (before it merged with Net-a-Porter) and 7digital, as well as larger organisations like ITV. After a short stint as a founder, he moved into software training and co-authored the successful book: “Agile Technical Practices Distilled, A Journey toward Mastering Software Design”, which was released in 2018. He then put together his experience with startups and his training experience to productise training and formalise it, co-founding Alcor Academy. A strong proponent of instilling the right work culture, Marco’s company helps CTOs and Tech leaders to promote a Culture of Excellence by training their software engineering teams on advanced engineering practices, taking a “socio-technical” approach.

Introducing Sarah Maxwell, aka the Chief of Stuff, an entrepreneurial powerhouse and changemaker. Throughout her career Sarah has been at the forefront of industry disruption starting with iTunes until Today. Where she successfully turned around an audio software company for exit.  She’s worked for multiple US presidents on their presidential campaigns and her communications strategy is so effective that Spotify and Epic Games tapped her to build an aggressive campaign against Apple and Google to reform the app stores, championing fairness and transparency in the digital marketplace.

Check out our interview with Karla Geci, former Director of International Partner Marketing at Meta, we discuss how to use creator marketing to scale your startup.

This episode we sat down with Shahryar Barati , a Venture Capitalist , and talked about hiring for startups and scaleups from a VC perspective.

This episode we sat down with Vanessa Buendia, a high preforming CMO , and talked about how to out market established companies as a startup.

This episode we sat down with Michele , a high preforming CTO , and talked about how to get the most out of your tech teams.

In this episode we sat down with Christina Carter, a high level bid manager, on how to close more multi-year enterprise deals.