Sofia Quintero’s career started in change management, before moving to advertising, then jumping into the tech industry and spending time at various startups. The common thread was listening to the customer, but it also gave her a humble advantage in understanding that EnjoyHQ didn’t have…
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Gravity Sketch founder Oluwaseyi Sosanya is very clearly and deeply a designer above all. But he has had to learn a lot about sales and marketing to drive the company’s growth. VR may seem novel in the consumer space, but there’s real evidence that B2B…
As part of the early team at Revolut, Veronique Barbosa and her co-founders at Flux found themselves right at the front of a surge in fintech. But equally, they seem to have absorbed the importance of clarity of mission — a power which has driven…
Naturally every startup story is different — but one of the key details is whether or not the team comes from within the industry they are trying to change. There is nothing more futile than a tech genius that has so little experience of life…
Element (previously known as Riot) is a bold enterprise alternative to a messaging landscape dominated by what some might call surveillance capitalism. It’s also a prime example of a business that realises being mandated by “the powers that be” is not enough for adoption to…
Naturally, it’s good to be successful. But if you just follow the signal of demand, you might build a business that you don’t actually want to exist. Syd Lawrence founded The Bot Platform after many years as an innovative agency building tech and campaigning tools…
We have interviews with founders who are decades into their career. We have interviews with founders who have launched multiple startups. But this conversation with Cyril Lutterodt was a little different — speaking with a founder in his 20s, who is now in the process…
It’s a common temptation to want to hide from difficult experiences. But it’s an equally common discovery how often that causes more problems than it solves. Mews was in the midst of enormous expansion, in its mission to simplify and automate the running of a…
A lot of founders preach the story of making customer feedback and validation their prime objective early on. But how many will push it to the expense of revenue, and even investor feedback? Cristina Vila at Cledara, a SaaS platform for managing your subscriptions, had…