Episode 82: Lessons from a Successful Scale-up With Chris Clarke

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English - November 18, 2021 14:35 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 81: Smooth Sailing with Efficient Leadership With Ryan Purvis

Next Episode: Episode 83: The Unseen Security Keeping Us Safe With Matt Clark

In this episode, we talk to Chris Clarke about his journey as the CTO and founder of EdTech company Talis. Having successfully scaled and sold the business, Chris now operates under the umbrella The Scale Up CTO - using his experience, success and mistakes to advise other businesses and startups on their scale up journey. Chris’s journey is one that’s rooted in the essence of technical leadership, and the turn from an individual contributor to becoming a catalyst for others.

Key takeaways from the podcast are:

- How to build trust and respect by demonstrating it
- Why it's important to own the process of hiring, and the role of genuine employee experience in doing so
- Delivery success based on the perfect tension between Engineering, Product and User Experience - and how to integrate this successfully with Agile