In this episode, we’re joined by Søren Schønnemann, CEO, Factbird, the SaaS provider that helps manufacturers maximize their performance through manufacturing intelligence from Operator to Process Engineer to Plant Manager,

We talk to Søren about the hiring strategy and organizational evolution that he's taken the company on to support their rapid growth, from 8 to 90 people while going from startup to breaking 10m Euro in ARR in less than 4 years. Here are some of the key questions we address:

- Why was his first 2 hires a Talent Aqcuistion specialist and a Sales Ops way before they had a commerial and GTM team in place?

- How has his hiring philosphy evolved as the company needs evolved?

- How do you balance the need for personal growth of staff vs the need of organization growth?

- What have been some of the most tricky challenges through this growth spurt and how did they handle them?

- Which are his biggest lessons learned from growing the organization at this pace, and what would he do differently next time?

Tune in to learn how Søren and his team have supported the need of the organization with a unique look at who to hire at what point in time, spoiler alert it is not sales people to start with, to get to the 10m Euro mark.

In this episode, we’re joined by Karel Callens, CEO & Founder, Luzmo, an embedded analytics platform, purpose-built for SaaS companies. They bring complex data to life with beautiful, easy-to-use dashboards, embedded seamlessly in any SaaS or web platform and are doing serving many well known customers across Europe and US.

We explore with Karel the concept of stacking S-curves on top of each other, making sure to always make the most of opportunities ahead and support an upward trajectory, even when that means pivoting, changing ICPs and more to make sure to fuel future growth! Here are some of the key questions we address:

- How do you know it’s time to evolve or expand your ICP?

- What’s the actual process you use when making that kind of pivot or expansion?

- When you make a move to a new ICP, what happens to the existing one?

- What impact does this kind of ICP shift have on the org structurally and culturally?

- How do you align Sales, Marketing, Product, and CS around what might feel like a moving target

- What have been your biggest missteps in making these transitions - and what did you learn from them?

- We talked about stacking S-curves”—how do you plan that kind of growth without losing focus or diluting execution?

Tune in to learn how Karel and his team have set up a process to future-proof their business and always be ready for the next thing, not just to follow but to lead and control their business destiny.

In this episode, we’re joined by Massimo Arrigoni, CEO, Beefree, a powerful design suite that lets you create no-code beautiful, high-performing emails that work with any marketing platform. Today the Beefree platform is embedded in over 1000 SaaS products powering the email component for some of the most well-known SaaS companies in the world.

We explore how an embedded and white label product strategy has fueled Beefree's growth and specifically what the learnings are from this journey. Here are some of the key questions we address:

- What does it really take from a company to offer an embedded white-label product?

- How do you determine if a part of your product is a good candidate to be sold as an embeddable component?

- What are the key differences between a traditional SaaS GTM strategy and an embedded/white-label model?

- How do you price an embeddable SaaS component to reflect the value it provides without overcomplicating contracting?

- How do you mitigate the risks or limitations of not being a domain expert in the industries you're embedding into? Tune in to learn how Massimo and Beefree have leveraged an embedded strategy to grow to 15m+ USD in ARR, 30% year on year growth with practically 0 churn and a happy customer base all over the world.