Scaling up: Lessons from the world's best CEOs and Founders
135 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings“Scaling Up” is a new podcast series that tells the scaling stories of great growth companies from around the world, as experienced by their founders and CEOs.
With the aim of inspiring and educating the next generation of entrepreneurs, as well as helping current business leaders, this podcast series hopes to give insight into what it takes to scale a business to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
Hosted by Ed Cowan and supported by TDM Growth Partners.
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Eating the bank's lunch w/ Athena Home Loans co-founders Nathan Walsh and Michael Starkey [S5.E1]
November 21, 2021 23:26 - 47 minutes - 109 MBWelcome to the fifth season of "Scaling Up"! Expect an ecclectic mix of incredible Australian growth stories, told by their founders and CEOs. Some of the episodes are with businesses at the earlier stages of their scaling up journey, as well as a few of Australia’s largest listed businesses. Regardless of scale, or business model, there are some common scaling pain points, and we try again to uncover how these leaders have overcome them. Like our last series, we also have a little mini seri...
Conquering the world from Southeast Asia w/ Abhishek Gupta, co-Founder Circles.Life
June 23, 2021 07:02 - 45 minutes - 104 MBAbhishek Gupta is the co-Founder of Circles Life, Asia’s first fully digital telco. Everything a Circles customer experiences is completely online, bringing the same level of sophistication to the telco world that consumers enjoy in many other walks of life, such as their food delivery or ride sharing. Circles is currently kicking off its second act. Having penetrated Asia initially with it direct to consumer telco offering, they soon realised that their in house technology stack could be ...
Conquering the world from Southeast Asia w/ Abhishek Gupta, co-Founder Circles.Life [S4.E7]
June 23, 2021 07:02 - 45 minutes - 104 MBAbhishek Gupta is the co-Founder of Circles Life, Asia’s first fully digital telco. Everything a Circles customer experiences is completely online, bringing the same level of sophistication to the telco world that consumers enjoy in many other walks of life, such as their food delivery or ride sharing. Circles is currently kicking off its second act. Having penetrated Asia initially with it direct to consumer telco offering, they soon realised that their in house technology stack could be ...
Conquering the World from Southeast Asia w/ Abhishek Gupta, Co-Founder Circles.Life [S4.E7]
June 23, 2021 07:02 - 45 minutes - 104 MBAbhishek Gupta is the co-Founder of Circles Life, Asia’s first fully digital telco. Everything a Circles customer experiences is completely online, bringing the same level of sophistication to the telco world that consumers enjoy in many other walks of life, such as their food delivery or ride sharing. Circles is currently kicking off its second act. Having penetrated Asia initially with it direct to consumer telco offering, they soon realised that their in house technology stack could be ...
CFO Mini Series (part II) - 'Rocketships and Receivables' w/ David Obstler, CFO Datadog [S4.E6]
June 18, 2021 00:02 - 32 minutes - 75.5 MBDavid Obstler is the CFO of Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG), a $30b hyper growth monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Few current active CFOs have been at the forefront of fast growing technology companies like David has - he is the seasoned pro that founders and CEOs have turned to to help them scale effectively for the last 25 years. You may remember from a previous episode the anecdote that Ethan Berman told of the CFO doing investor calls in his ski boots, as the financial worl...
CFO Mini Series (part II) - Rocketships and Receivables w/ David Obstler, CFO Datadog [S4.E6]
June 18, 2021 00:02 - 32 minutes - 75.5 MBDavid Obstler is the CFO of Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG), a $30b hyper growth monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Few current active CFOs have been at the forefront of fast growing technology companies like David has - he is the seasoned pro that founders and CEOs have turned to to help them scale effectively for the last 25 years. You may remember from a previous episode the anecdote that Ethan Berman told of the CFO doing investor calls in his ski boots, as the financial worl...
CFO Mini Series (part II) - 'Rocketships and Receivables' w/ David Obstler, CFO Datadog
June 18, 2021 00:02 - 32 minutes - 75.5 MBDavid Obstler is the CFO of Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG), a $30b hyper growth monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Few current active CFOs have been at the forefront of fast growing technology companies like David has - he is the seasoned pro that founders and CEOs have turned to to help them scale effectively for the last 25 years. You may remember from a previous episode the anecdote that Ethan Berman told of the CFO doing investor calls in his ski boots, as the financial worl...
CFO Mini Series (part 1): "Racing through the Gears"- Jill Woodworth, CFO Peloton
June 08, 2021 22:26 - 34 minutes - 77.9 MBThe first episode in this mini series is Jill Woodworth, the CFO of Peloton (NASDAQ:PTON). Since 2018, when Jill joined, Peleton has been on a hyper scale journey – she took the reins of the finance function when the business was a private, $200m revenue company. In under 4 years since then, it is now a $4b revenue business listed on the NASDAQ. The next two episodes are moving the spotlight away from the CEO and Founder to their most important partner in the business, the CFO. You can lik...
CFO Mini Series (part 1): "Racing through the Gears"- Jill Woodworth, CFO Peloton [S4.E5]
June 08, 2021 22:26 - 34 minutes - 77.9 MBThe first episode in this mini series is Jill Woodworth, the CFO of Peloton (NASDAQ:PTON). Since 2018, when Jill joined, Peleton has been on a hyper scale journey – she took the reins of the finance function when the business was a private, $200m revenue company. In under 4 years since then, it is now a $4b revenue business listed on the NASDAQ. The next two episodes are moving the spotlight away from the CEO and Founder to their most important partner in the business, the CFO. You can lik...
CFO Mini Series (part 1): Racing Through the Gears - Jill Woodworth, CFO Peloton [S4.E5]
June 08, 2021 22:26 - 34 minutes - 77.9 MBThe first episode in this mini series is Jill Woodworth, the CFO of Peloton (NASDAQ:PTON). Since 2018, when Jill joined, Peleton has been on a hyper scale journey – she took the reins of the finance function when the business was a private, $200m revenue company. In under 4 years since then, it is now a $4b revenue business listed on the NASDAQ. The next two episodes are moving the spotlight away from the CEO and Founder to their most important partner in the business, the CFO. You can lik...
The Ultimate Servant Leader - Ethan Berman, Founder and CEO RiskMetrics (1998-2010) [S4.E4]
June 02, 2021 04:48 - 1 hour - 148 MBEthan Berman, was the CEO and founder of the NYSE listed Risk Metrics, until it was bought by MSCI in 2010 for US$1.55b. RiskMetrics, which was spun off from JP Morgan Chase in 1998 and became the market leader in risk management software systems. We need to transport ourselves back to the late 90s – a time of floppy disk distribution and only a handful of pioneer SaaS companies. From writing plays in Paris, Ethan ran one of the fastest companies, software or otherwise, anywhere in the wor...
The Ultimate Servant Leader - Ethan Berman, Founder and CEO RiskMetrics (1998-2010)
June 02, 2021 04:48 - 1 hour - 148 MBEthan Berman, was the CEO and founder of the NYSE listed Risk Metrics, until it was bought by MSCI in 2010 for US$1.55b. RiskMetrics, which was spun off from JP Morgan Chase in 1998 and became the market leader in risk management software systems. We need to transport ourselves back to the late 90s – a time of floppy disk distribution and only a handful of pioneer SaaS companies. From writing plays in Paris, Ethan ran one of the fastest companies, software or otherwise, anywhere in the wor...
Entertaining and Entrepreneurship - Howard Lerman, CEO and co-Founder Yext [S4.E3]
May 26, 2021 00:11 - 46 minutes - 105 MBHoward Lerman is the CEO and co-founder of Yext (NYSE:YEXT) a US$360m revenue business that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Maybe listeners have had interactions with Yext and never known it. Every time you google a business, or ask Siri a question, the up to date information is being powered by the Yext platform. We all know of that terrible customer experience of getting misinformation – like googling opening times for example, only to turn up and the shop or your favourite res...
Entertaining and Entrepreneurship - Howard Lerman, CEO and Co-Founder Yext [S4.E3]
May 26, 2021 00:11 - 46 minutes - 105 MBHoward Lerman is the CEO and co-founder of Yext (NYSE:YEXT) a US$360m revenue business that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Maybe listeners have had interactions with Yext and never known it. Every time you google a business, or ask Siri a question, the up to date information is being powered by the Yext platform. We all know of that terrible customer experience of getting misinformation – like googling opening times for example, only to turn up and the shop or your favourite res...
Entertaining and Entrepreneurship - Howard Lerman, CEO and co-Founder Yext
May 26, 2021 00:11 - 46 minutes - 105 MBHoward Lerman is the CEO and co-founder of Yext (NYSE:YEXT) a US$360m revenue business that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Maybe listeners have had interactions with Yext and never known it. Every time you google a business, or ask Siri a question, the up to date information is being powered by the Yext platform. We all know of that terrible customer experience of getting misinformation – like googling opening times for example, only to turn up and the shop or your favourite res...
A Modern Day Wonder Woman - Therese Tucker, Founder, Executive Chairperson, and former CEO Blackline Inc
May 19, 2021 06:08 - 47 minutes - 108 MBTherese Tucker is the founder, former CEO and current Executive Chair of the NASDAQ Listed, $6b market cap business Blackline Inc. (NASDAQ:BL) Therese is a pioneer in every sense - an inspiring woman who has written her own script at every point in her career. As a 40 year old single mum of 2, she decided to bootstrap an enterprise software company - building Blackline over the next 20 years into what is is today – the market leader in automation solutions for finance and accounting teams th...
A Modern Day Wonder Woman - Therese Tucker, Founder, Executive Chairperson, and former CEO Blackline Inc [S4.E2]
May 19, 2021 06:08 - 47 minutes - 108 MBTherese Tucker is the founder, former CEO and current Executive Chair of the NASDAQ Listed, $6b market cap business Blackline Inc. (NASDAQ:BL) Therese is a pioneer in every sense - an inspiring woman who has written her own script at every point in her career. As a 40 year old single mum of 2, she decided to bootstrap an enterprise software company - building Blackline over the next 20 years into what is is today – the market leader in automation solutions for finance and accounting teams th...
Ahead of the Curve - Bill Magnuson, Co-Founder and CEO of Braze
May 11, 2021 04:01 - 51 minutes - 118 MBWelcome back for another series of Scaling Up. Season 4 will again explore some of the great growth stories from around the world. To kick off Series 4 is the the CEO and co-founder of Braze, Bill Magnuson – one of the world’s hottest technology companies. Based in New York, Braze is a customer engagement platform that works with some some huge brands and businesses like Gap, Deliveroo, The NBA and Canva to deliver real time and personalised messaging across platforms From a serendipitous ...
Ahead of the Curve - Bill Magnuson, Co-Founder and CEO of Braze [S4.E1]
May 11, 2021 04:01 - 51 minutes - 118 MBWelcome back for another series of Scaling Up. Season 4 will again explore some of the great growth stories from around the world. To kick off Series 4 is the the CEO and co-founder of Braze, Bill Magnuson – one of the world’s hottest technology companies. Based in New York, Braze is a customer engagement platform that works with some some huge brands and businesses like Gap, Deliveroo, The NBA and Canva to deliver real time and personalised messaging across platforms From a serendipitous ...
The power of compounding - Hamish Douglass, Co-founder, CIO and Chairman, Magellan Financial Group
December 02, 2020 21:54 - 45 minutes - 105 MBA very special guest rounds out series 3, with many listeners very familiar with Hamish, Magellan, their investment philosophy and sustained success. People's minds will always drift to how good an investor Hamish is having compounded capital at high rates of return for 15 years, it is perhaps easy to ignore what an incredible business Magellan itself is, having scaled from humble beginnings to now being a ASX 100 listed company with a market cap of over $10b. This was not by accident but...
The power of compounding - Hamish Douglass, Co-founder, CIO and Chairman, Magellan Financial Group [S3.E8]
December 02, 2020 21:54 - 45 minutes - 105 MBA very special guest rounds out Season 3, with many listeners very familiar with Hamish, Magellan, their investment philosophy and sustained success. People's minds will always drift to how good an investor Hamish is having compounded capital at high rates of return for 15 years, it is perhaps easy to ignore what an incredible business Magellan itself is, having scaled from humble beginnings to now being a ASX 100 listed company with a market cap of over $10b. This was not by accident but...
The Power of Compounding - Hamish Douglass, Co-Founder, CIO and Chairman, Magellan Financial Group [S3.E8]
December 02, 2020 21:54 - 45 minutes - 105 MBA very special guest rounds out Season 3, with many listeners very familiar with Hamish, Magellan, their investment philosophy and sustained success. People's minds will always drift to how good an investor Hamish is having compounded capital at high rates of return for 15 years, it is perhaps easy to ignore what an incredible business Magellan itself is, having scaled from humble beginnings to now being a ASX 100 listed company with a market cap of over $10b. This was not by accident but...
Big and Small, Seen it All - Robbie Cooke, CEO Tyro Payments
November 26, 2020 21:40 - 48 minutes - 111 MBRobbie Cooke is one of Australia’s most experienced CEOs – having seen 'big' in his time as CEO of Tatts as well as entrepreneurial and fast growing in his previous role at Wotif.com. Robbie of is now the CEO of the $2b Tyro Payments, which listed on the ASX last year as the second biggest technology listing ever in the history of the exchange. We cover a range of topics in this conversation – from how he thinks about innovation as a professional CEO, to brilliant insight into how to best p...
Big and Small, Seen it All - Robbie Cooke, CEO Tyro Payments [S3.E7]
November 26, 2020 21:40 - 48 minutes - 111 MBRobbie Cooke is one of Australia’s most experienced CEOs – having seen 'big' in his time as CEO of Tatts as well as entrepreneurial and fast growing in his previous role at Wotif.com. Robbie of is now the CEO of the $2b Tyro Payments, which listed on the ASX last year as the second biggest technology listing ever in the history of the exchange. We cover a range of topics in this conversation – from how he thinks about innovation as a professional CEO, to brilliant insight into how to best p...
Backpacking the road of business intelligence software - Myles Glashier co-founder and co-CEO, Phocas Software [S3.E6]
November 18, 2020 23:08 - 38 minutes - 87.7 MBMyles Glashier is the co-founder and co-CEO of Phocas Software. Most listeners would not have heard of, nor read about Phocas, as this is a story that is largely unknown, but certainly needs to be told. 20 years ago an Aussie backpacker in London, falls into starting a bootstrapped business selling on premises business intelligence software. Fast forward 20 years, and Phocas has carved out a niche to serve manufacturing and retail customers around the globe. Having grown consistently year ...
Backpacking the road of business intelligence software - Myles Glashier co-founder and co-CEO, Phocas Software
November 18, 2020 23:08 - 38 minutes - 87.7 MBMyles Glashier is the co-founder and co-CEO of Phocas Software. Most listeners would not have heard of, nor read about Phocas, as this is a story that is largely unknown, but certainly needs to be told. 20 years ago an Aussie backpacker in London, falls into starting a bootstrapped business selling on premises business intelligence software. Fast forward 20 years, and Phocas has carved out a niche to serve manufacturing and retail customers around the globe. Having grown consistently year ...
Backpacking the Road of Business Intelligence Software - Myles Glashier Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Phocas Software [S3.E6]
November 18, 2020 23:08 - 38 minutes - 87.7 MBMyles Glashier is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Phocas Software. Most listeners would not have heard of, nor read about Phocas, as this is a story that is largely unknown, but certainly needs to be told. 20 years ago an Aussie backpacker in London, falls into starting a bootstrapped business selling on premises business intelligence software. Fast forward 20 years, and Phocas has carved out a niche to serve manufacturing and retail customers around the globe. Having grown consistently year ...
The Full Spectrum: Entrepreneur, CEO and Investor - Paul Bassat, Co-Founder and former CEO Seek, and Founder Square Peg [S3.E5]
November 11, 2020 23:26 - 59 minutes - 135 MBPaul Bassat makes for a unique 'Scaling Up' episode. As most listeners will know, Paul and his brother Andrew, along with Matt Rockman founded Seek in 1997 and in doing so carved the path in Australia for great technology businesses. This was a time when the internet itself was in its early days, and it is hard to fathom the foresight required to build what is now a $8b company. Paul left Seek in 2011 and has since founded Square Peg, one of South East Asia’s leading venture capital compani...
The Full Spectrum: Entrepreneur, CEO and Investor - Paul Bassat, co-founder and former CEO Seek, and founder Square Peg
November 11, 2020 23:26 - 59 minutes - 135 MBPaul Bassat makes for a unique 'Scaling Up' episode. As most listeners will know, Paul and his brother Andrew, along with Matt Rockman founded Seek in 1997 and in doing so carved the path in Australia for great technology businesses. This was a time when the internet itself was in its early days, and it is hard to fathom the foresight required to build what is now a $8b company. Paul left Seek in 2011 and has since founded Square Peg, one of South East Asia’s leading venture capital compani...
The Full Spectrum: Entrepreneur, CEO and Investor - Paul Bassat, co-founder and former CEO Seek, and founder Square Peg [S3.E5]
November 11, 2020 23:26 - 59 minutes - 135 MBPaul Bassat makes for a unique 'Scaling Up' episode. As most listeners will know, Paul and his brother Andrew, along with Matt Rockman founded Seek in 1997 and in doing so carved the path in Australia for great technology businesses. This was a time when the internet itself was in its early days, and it is hard to fathom the foresight required to build what is now a $8b company. Paul left Seek in 2011 and has since founded Square Peg, one of South East Asia’s leading venture capital compani...
Purpose meets profit w/ Simon Griffiths, Co-founder and CEO, Who Gives A Crap
November 04, 2020 23:04 - 50 minutes - 115 MBSimon Griffiths is the Co-founder and CEO of Who Gives a Crap. People listening might not, until now, appreciate both the scale of the business and also the deep community impact it has had in the developing world, where Who Gives a Crap donates half of its profits to charity each year. From the humble idea that they could sell toilet paper online and deliver a great customer experience, all the while being at the forefront on consumer driven philanthropy, this is a Australian success story...
Purpose Meets Profit w/ Simon Griffiths, Co-Founder and CEO, Who Gives A Crap [S3.E4]
November 04, 2020 23:04 - 50 minutes - 115 MBSimon Griffiths is the Co-Founder and CEO of Who Gives a Crap. People listening might not, until now, appreciate both the scale of the business and also the deep community impact it has had in the developing world, where Who Gives a Crap donates half of its profits to charity each year. From the humble idea that they could sell toilet paper online and deliver a great customer experience, all the while being at the forefront on consumer driven philanthropy, this is a Australian success story...
Purpose meets profit w/ Simon Griffiths, Co-founder and CEO, Who Gives A Crap [S3.E4]
November 04, 2020 23:04 - 50 minutes - 115 MBSimon Griffiths is the Co-founder and CEO of Who Gives a Crap. People listening might not, until now, appreciate both the scale of the business and also the deep community impact it has had in the developing world, where Who Gives a Crap donates half of its profits to charity each year. From the humble idea that they could sell toilet paper online and deliver a great customer experience, all the while being at the forefront on consumer driven philanthropy, this is a Australian success story...
'Joining the dots' w/ Sankar Narayan, CEO SiteMinder [S3.E3]
October 28, 2020 21:56 - 48 minutes - 112 MBSankar Narayan, the CEO of SiteMinder is my guest today and the tapestry of his career is equal parts fascinating and inspiring. Born into the India middle class, Sankar has swung from the branches of a variety of roles across the US and Australiatech scene that have enabled him to bring a unique perspective to his current role. Sankar has become one of Australia’s scale up experts, cutting his teeth at Xero as both he CFO and COO, and now as CEO of SiteMinder, a billion dollar, truly global...
Joining the Dots w/ Sankar Narayan, CEO SiteMinder [S3.E3]
October 28, 2020 21:56 - 48 minutes - 112 MBSankar Narayan, the CEO of SiteMinder is my guest today and the tapestry of his career is equal parts fascinating and inspiring. Born into the India middle class, Sankar has swung from the branches of a variety of roles across the US and Australiatech scene that have enabled him to bring a unique perspective to his current role. Sankar has become one of Australia’s scale up experts, cutting his teeth at Xero as both he CFO and COO, and now as CEO of SiteMinder, a billion dollar, truly global...
'Joining the dots' w/ Sankar Narayan, CEO SiteMinder
October 28, 2020 21:56 - 48 minutes - 112 MBSankar Narayan, the CEO of SiteMinder is my guest today and the tapestry of his career is equal parts fascinating and inspiring. Born into the India middle class, Sankar has swung from the branches of a variety of roles across the US and Australiatech scene that have enabled him to bring a unique perspective to his current role. Sankar has become one of Australia’s scale up experts, cutting his teeth at Xero as both he CFO and COO, and now as CEO of SiteMinder, a billion dollar, truly global...
Dog Food, Deliberate Decisions and Durable Growth w/ Mike Frizell and James Edwards, Co-Founders of Pet Circle [S3.E2]
October 21, 2020 23:43 - 56 minutes - 129 MBMike Frizell and James Edwards, Co-Founders of Pet Circle, are the quiet achievers of the Australian consumer business scene. Their story is largely untold and unknown. Whenever newspapers publish lists of Australia’s largest e-commerce players, Pet Circle is always a surprise omission to those in the know. Having grown at an astronomical rate over the last decade to now over $300m in revenue, Mike and James have built a business second only in size and scale to Kogan – the undisputed pure p...
Dog food, deliberate decisions and durable growth w/ Mike Frizell and James Edwards, co-founders of Pet Circle
October 21, 2020 23:43 - 56 minutes - 129 MBMike Frizell and James Edwards, co-founders of Pet Circle, are the quiet achievers of the Australian consumer business scene. Their story is largely untold and unknown. Whenever newspapers publish lists of Australia’s largest e-commerce players, Pet Circle is always a surprise omission to those in the know. Having grown at an astronomical rate over the last decade to now over $300m in revenue, Mike and James have built a business second only in size and scale to Kogan – the undisputed pure p...
Dog food, deliberate decisions and durable growth w/ Mike Frizell and James Edwards, co-founders of Pet Circle [S3.E2]
October 21, 2020 23:43 - 56 minutes - 129 MBMike Frizell and James Edwards, co-founders of Pet Circle, are the quiet achievers of the Australian consumer business scene. Their story is largely untold and unknown. Whenever newspapers publish lists of Australia’s largest e-commerce players, Pet Circle is always a surprise omission to those in the know. Having grown at an astronomical rate over the last decade to now over $300m in revenue, Mike and James have built a business second only in size and scale to Kogan – the undisputed pure p...
Enterprise Software in Your Pocket - Luke Anear, CEO and Founder, SafetyCulture [S3.E1]
October 14, 2020 03:41 - 42 minutes - 98.2 MBLuke Anear, CEO and Founder of SafetyCulture, is undoubtedly one of Australia's finest modern entrepreneurs. A boy from Townsville in Northern Queensland starts a software company from his garage with no technical expertise. SafetyCulture is now a pin up of the Australian technology scene – a billion dollar valuation, revenue growth at break neck speed, tens of thousands of customers across 85 countries, and some of the world's largest companies relying on SafetyCulture software to provide t...
Enterprise Software in Your Pocket - Luke Anear, CEO and founder, SafetyCulture
October 14, 2020 03:41 - 42 minutes - 98.2 MBLuke Anear, CEO and Founder of SafetyCulture, is undoubtedly one of Australia's finest modern entrepreneurs. A boy from Townsville in Northern Queensland starts a software company from his garage with no technical expertise. SafetyCulture is now a pin up of the Australian technology scene – a billion dollar valuation, revenue growth at break neck speed, tens of thousands of customers across 85 countries, and some of the world's largest companies relying on SafetyCulture software to provide t...
Enterprise Software in Your Pocket - Luke Anear, CEO and founder, SafetyCulture [S3.E1]
October 14, 2020 03:41 - 42 minutes - 98.2 MBLuke Anear, CEO and Founder of SafetyCulture, is undoubtedly one of Australia's finest modern entrepreneurs. A boy from Townsville in Northern Queensland starts a software company from his garage with no technical expertise. SafetyCulture is now a pin up of the Australian technology scene – a billion dollar valuation, revenue growth at break neck speed, tens of thousands of customers across 85 countries, and some of the world's largest companies relying on SafetyCulture software to provide t...
The Road to the Extraordinary - Rick Stollmeyer, Co-Founder and CEO of Mindbody [S2.E4]
April 30, 2020 00:03 - 52 minutes - 120 MBRick Stollmeyer co-founded Mindbody in 2001 and is still the CEO 20 years later. This is his story as much it is Mindbody’s story; from his learnings as a nuclear submarine engineer, to selling CD ROM software from his garage with his co-founder Blake Beltram, to now scaling a multinational software company. Rick is one of the most passionate and deeply mission-driven CEOs you could ever have the pleasure of meeting. A high performer in every sense, motivated by solving complex problems th...
The Road to the Extraordinary - Rick Stollmeyer, Co-founder and CEO of Mindbody [S2.E4]
April 30, 2020 00:03 - 52 minutes - 120 MBRick Stollmeyer co-founded Mindbody in 2001 and is still the CEO 20 years later. This is his story as much it is Mindbody’s story; from his learnings as a nuclear submarine engineer, to selling CD ROM software from his garage with his co-founder Blake Beltram, to now scaling a multinational software company. Rick is one of the most passionate and deeply mission-driven CEOs you could ever have the pleasure of meeting. A high performer in every sense, motivated by solving complex problems th...
The Road to the Extraordinary - Rick Stollmeyer, Co-founder and CEO of Mindbody
April 30, 2020 00:03 - 52 minutes - 120 MBRick Stollmeyer co-founded Mindbody in 2001 and is still the CEO 20 years later. This is his story as much it is Mindbody’s story; from his learnings as a nuclear submarine engineer, to selling CD ROM software from his garage with his co-founder Blake Beltram, to now scaling a multinational software company. Rick is one of the most passionate and deeply mission-driven CEOs you could ever have the pleasure of meeting. A high performer in every sense, motivated by solving complex problems th...
The Secret Powers of a Generalist - Anneka Gupta, Co-President of LiveRamp
April 22, 2020 22:07 - 38 minutes - 88.1 MBI am thrilled that Anneka Gupta has joined as the guest of this episode. Anneka is one of the rising stars in the US technology scene. She is currently the co-president of LiveRamp, a New York Stock Exchange Listed $2b business with offices around the world. Her own corporate journey is as fascinating as the company itself – a journey that highlights the potential of ‘generalists’ with ambition and passion, who when a new door opens, have the courage to explore it with their full attention a...
The Secret Powers of a Generalist - Anneka Gupta, Co-President of LiveRamp [S2.E3]
April 22, 2020 22:07 - 38 minutes - 88.1 MBI am thrilled that Anneka Gupta has joined as the guest of this episode. Anneka is one of the rising stars in the US technology scene. She is currently the co-president of LiveRamp, a New York Stock Exchange Listed $2b business with offices around the world. Her own corporate journey is as fascinating as the company itself – a journey that highlights the potential of ‘generalists’ with ambition and passion, who when a new door opens, have the courage to explore it with their full attention a...
'The Secret Powers of a Generalist' with Anneka Gupta, Co-President of LiveRamp
April 22, 2020 22:07 - 38 minutes - 88.1 MBI am thrilled that Anneka Gupta has joined as the guest of this episode. Anneka is one of the rising stars in the US technology scene. She is currently the co-president of LiveRamp, a New York Stock Exchange Listed $2b business with offices around the world. Her own corporate journey is as fascinating as the company itself – a journey that highlights the potential of ‘generalists’ with ambition and passion, who when a new door opens, have the courage to explore it with their full attention a...
"One Team, One Score, One North Star" - Jonathan Corr, Ellie Mae CEO [S2.E2]
April 14, 2020 22:04 - 46 minutes - 107 MBJonathan Corr is my guest on this episode of Scaling Up. Jonathan is the current CEO of Ellie Mae. This episode is a wonderful deep dive into the world of a highly experienced CEO who has had the benefit of seeing the full spectrum of the growth curve. Ellie listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011, relatively early in its journey. Jonathan oversaw and came through all the common scaling challenges – re-platforming of their technology stack, changes in their business model, and by far...
One Team, One Score, One North Star - Jonathan Corr, Ellie Mae CEO [S2.E2]
April 14, 2020 22:04 - 46 minutes - 107 MBJonathan Corr is my guest on this episode of Scaling Up. Jonathan is the current CEO of Ellie Mae. This episode is a wonderful deep dive into the world of a highly experienced CEO who has had the benefit of seeing the full spectrum of the growth curve. Ellie listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011, relatively early in its journey. Jonathan oversaw and came through all the common scaling challenges – re-platforming of their technology stack, changes in their business model, and by far...