The Tech Entrepreneur on a Mission Podcast

#271 – Andrew Yates, CEO, Promoted – on leveraging Open Source principles to grow Commercially A story about outperforming engineering teams of 100s or 1000s with a team of 10.

We explore Andrews’s entrepreneurial journey and ideas and what challenges he had to overcome around go-to-market, winning over the biggest skeptics, and creating a revenue flywheel. He explains how breaking away from existing structures and established norms has helped them to break through. Last but not least, his lessons learned…


Read More...

#270 – Gijs van Lookeren Campagne & Jan Borghuis, CEOs, Ease2pay – on making Build & Buy work A story about creating a serious head start and dominating a market without external funding

We explore what stands in the way of making the rapid transition to electronic vehicles happening. The two founders discuss their journey of building the business from scratch, and how the accelerated this by leveraging M&A from the start. They share insights about the complexities of merging companies and the…


Read More...

#266 – Jonathan Anderson, CEO Candu – on rethinking PLG software development  A story about empowering non-technical users to participate in the software development process to reduce costs and accelerate innovation.

We explore what’s holding a lot of software vendors back from shipping products to market and achieving high adoption rates. Jonathan shares his vision of how he aims to change that for good. He elaborates on the challenges he had to overcome to build traction and what that took from…


Read More...

#264  Antony Thompson, former CEO, Loopin – on creating high-performing organizations A story about how blending Commando's Mindset with technology creates a recipe for creat people-first organizations that win

We explore the growing challenge so burnout and attrition in the market and why traditional solutions can only help us come so far. Antony then shares what needs to change and why given their experiences from the Marines and the characteristics they’ve uncovered about what creates high-performing overachievers. 


Read More...