ScaleUp & Up

Dec 05 2024 15 ep. 45 mins 3
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Get lessons from the world’s greatest (tech) scaleup stories. Hosted by IBB and Mia Biberovic.

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How We Built a Calm Company – Without the Chaos (Amir Salihefendic)

Dec 05 2024 49 mins  
How do you scale your company to millions and billions in ARR? Well, if you ask your average founder or a VC, there are a couple of steps one must take to quickly scale the business after finding the product market fit.On the other hand, some founders don't take the usual route but rather build their company over time — often bootstrapping and investing the profits back into the

Raising $350 Million for Rho Banking (Alex Wheldon)

Nov 21 2024 44 mins  
"Most people don't get into entrepreneurship because they are passionate about accounting" — says Alex Wheldon, co-founder of Rho Banking, a New York-based technology company that raised 350 million dollars to disrupt the business banking sector in the United States.Still, it goes without saying that even if you have the best possible product out there, your company has to be goo

Hacking Revenue Growth with Design (Andy Budd)

Nov 07 2024 44 mins  
Why do we hire designers? Is it just to make things look pretty or can they actually drive revenue?Well, according to Andy Budd, a proper design legend, one of the first UX designers in the United Kingdom and a VC nowadays, it's the latter.We caught up with Andy during our recent visit to the How To Web conference in Bucharest, where we had the opportunity to pick Andy's brain on d

How We Grew Paddle to $75 Million in ARR (Andrew Davies)

Oct 24 2024 56 mins  
What is the role of marketing in a successful tech company? Do marketers only care about the brand, or are they more user-focused? In today’s episode, we talked with Andrew Davies, CMO of Paddle, a unicorn valued at over 1,4 billion dollars. We explored the critical role of marketing in navigating the multiple ceilings that scale-ups face as they grow – particularly the importa

How I Grew Netlify To $33 Million In Revenue (Mathias Biilmann)

Oct 10 2024 47 mins  
How does one go from a music journalist to a founder and CEO of one of the most recognizable companies in the web dev area?This week, we talked with Mathias Biilmann Christensen, who, alongside his co-founder Christian Bach, started Netlify - a web builder / hosting company that supports more than 35 million websites globally. Matthias shared his journey of building Netlify and the

From Engineers to Entrepreneurs – The Story of Tenderly (Bogdan Habic)

Sep 26 2024 32 mins  
What does it take to become one of the most prominent players in Web3 / blockchain community? How do you build tools for Web3 developers and how do you market them? How do you do all of this and become one of the fastest growing developer tooling companies? This week, we talked to Bogdan Habic, co-founder and CTO of Tenderly, a full-stack infrastructure for Web3 professionals which

Honest Advice from ex Trello Product Director (Hamid Palo)

Jul 18 2024 44 mins  
Have you ever wondered what building and scaling products from the frontlines is like? To be at the intersection between customers and teams shaping digital tools and products?This week, we discuss those questions with Hamid Palo, a former Director of Product at Trello and Uber with extensive knowledge and experience in product development. Our hosts, IBB and Mia Biberović, caught

How I Created TWO Billion Dollar Companies (Jason Cohen)

Jul 04 2024 65 mins  
What's the secret behind scaling not one, but two multi-million dollar companies?What better person to talk to about growing businesses than Jason Cohen, the founder of WP Engine and someone who has been navigating the world of technology for more than 30 years!In this episode, our hosts IBB and Mia talked with Jason about his passion for blogging and how it has been a key aspect o

Taking On $17.3M Debt And Buying Out Investors (Wistia)

Jun 20 2024 49 mins  
Is there such a thing as overscaling the company? Is growth at all costs a good thing or can it actually harm the company and its culture?Meet Wistia, a Cambridge-based video marketing platform for businesses which was founded in 2006. with a vision to create a competition website for filmmakers, and which later evolved into a fully customizable video solution for businesses with v

From Losing Everything To Building A $10 Million Company (Robin Powered)

Jun 06 2024 55 mins  
Boston-based office management tool Robin Powered faced a significant challenge at the beginning of 2020 when the world went into lockdown, making their business model obsolete overnight. Forced to adapt quickly, the company experienced its fastest-growing period by pivoting to meet the demands of the new work-from-home era. During a visit to Boston, we interviewed Robin’s co-fou