Secrets for Scaling
Secrets for Scaling
Geckoboard
Secrets for Scaling is a Geckoboard podcast exploring the growth secrets of successful founders and CEOs. Whether you're just launching your business or taking your company to the next level, you'll learn proven strategies and tactics for growing a sustainable business. If you're interested in focusing your team and improving key business metrics, check out our live TV dashboard app: https://www.geckoboard.com/
Josh Pigford of Baremetrics  on cutting through the startup hype to grow a sustainable business
Josh Pigford of Baremetrics shares his lessons in goal setting and focus as a founder, patience, sustainable growth, branding, and what’s next for the company.
Jul 5, 2017
20 min
Srini Rao of Unmistakable Creative on how to build focus and hone your creativity as a founder
Srinivas Rao, Founder of Unmistakable Creative, shares his unique founder journey, how the media company is productizing, and his top lessons learned from interviewing hundreds of the most unmistakable and successful people in the world.
Jun 27, 2017
23 min
How Balaji Srinivasan of 21.co and a16z sets goals and manages teams
Balaji Srinivasan, CEO of 21.co and Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talks about goal-setting, metrics, motivating a team, digital currency, and the future of Bitcoin.
Jun 13, 2017
26 min
Unbounce’s Oli Gardner on evolving metrics, scaling culture, AI, and more
Oli Gardner of Unbounce shares the future of AI in marketing, the top mistakes he sees founders make, the early marketing decisions that led to their success today, and more. Read the episode highlights here: https://www.geckoboard.com/blog/secrets-for-scaling-unbounce-oli-gardner-podcast/
May 30, 2017
30 min
Pipedrive’s co-founder Timo Rein reveals how they segment goals to keep focus
Pipedrive co-founder Timo Rein shares the early product decisions they made to grow into a successful Series B company with 250 employees, as well as how they set goals and hire for character fit. Read highlights here: www.geckoboard.com/blog/secrets-for-scaling-pipedrive-timo-rein-podcast
May 17, 2017
38 min
Tyler Barstow of Vinyl Me Please on how to not be a jerk manager when growing a business
Tyler Bastow, co-founder of Vinyl Me Please - a monthly record subscription club - shares how their customers have grown up with them, how they align their team around the vision, set and track goals, and how they’ve learned to lead and manage founder stress without bumming their team out. Hear the whole story above or read episode highlights here: https://www.geckoboard.com/blog/secrets-for-scaling-tyler-barstow-vinyl-me-please-podcast/
May 9, 2017
31 min
Lessons from Pramod Dabir of West Agile Labs on minimizing technical debt while moving fast
Pramod Dabir, Co-Founder and CEO of West Agile Labs - a global digital design and development partner - shares what you can do early on for smooth growth, how to align a distributed team around a vision, how to build a sustainable MVP, and more. Listen to the full episode or read the highlights here: Here’s a quick company snapshot: - Founder experience: 6 years - Team size: 150 team members - Customers / Revenue: 40 clients - Company founded: December 2012 (5 years old)
May 2, 2017
29 min
How the CEO of Makers Academy built a culture based on trust, not fear
Evgeny Shadchnev Co-Founder and CEO of Makers Academy, Europe’s leading developer bootcamp, shares how they're building the company on pure trust, not fear. They use unusual tactics to do so, such as self-setting salaries. They also believe that everyone should have a job they love and do everything they can to ensure that’s true for their employees and the developers who graduate their program. Here’s a quick company snapshot: - Founder experience: 9 years - Team size: 24 team members - Traction: Graduated more than 1,000 developers over the last four years and worked with hundreds of companies - Company founded: December 2012 (4 years old) Learn about how they’ve reached profitability by focusing on trust and autonomy in the full episode!
Apr 25, 2017
15 min
How Jon Crawford built and sold Storenvy: his tough lessons learned
In this episode, we spoke with Jonathan Crawford, founder and former CEO of Storenvy, an e-commerce marketplace for indie brands. Jon was with the company from day one for six years and learned some hard lessons along the way. He was kicked out of Y-Combinator on the first day. He built his first team only to let them go all at once. He heard many “no”s from investors. He learned about what’s important to him - what he wants to do as a founder and what he doesn’t. He learned what makes him happy. When he left in 2016 after selling the company, it was at 30 team members with 130,000 stores open on the platform and millions of dollars flowing through it per month. Hear the whole story in the full episode!
Apr 18, 2017
25 min
How Marvel grew to a Series A: lessons on acquiring, hiring, and building a great culture
In this episode, we spoke with Murat Mutlu, co-founder and head of design at Marvel. Marvel is a free platform for simple design, prototyping, and collaboration. Here’s a quick company overview: - Founder experience: 4 years - Team size: 31 team members - Traction: 1 million users, adding 1,500 new users/day - Company founded: November 2013 (3 years old) - Stage: Series A Having recently raised a Series A of about $5 million, Marvel is in a critical stage of growth. They recognize that they need to find what works for them and have developed processes and frameworks early on so they can scale their business and culture. Learn more in the full episode! Photo by Joe Watts: http://joewatts.co/design-club-26-04-16
Apr 12, 2017
21 min
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