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Discover the stories behind thriving businesses and the visionaries who built them. Insightful conversations on scaling companies, driving innovation, and fostering resilience. Hosted by Desi Velikova from Pony Studio.
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This podcast offers training, coaching, and success strategies to help women and minority-owned businesses to grow and scale their business. Join us for inspiring, thought-provoking conversations with successful business owners who overcame their fatal mistakes and obstacles to achieve the dream. Whether you are making millions, lost millions, or hustling to make your first million, this podcast will inspire you! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mind-your-busines ...
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Send us a text Adam Robinson is the founder of two successful SaaS companies - RB2B, a platform that identifies anonymous B2B website visitors and turns them into actionable sales signals, and Retention.com, which helps eCommerce brands recover abandoned carts and reconnect with lost visitors through identity resolution. He bootstrapped RB2B to $5M…
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Send us a text Joe Leech is a seasoned CEO coach with over 20 years in tech and a track record of adding $20 billion in revenue across various companies. In this episode of SEEKERS, Joe shares his insights on the human challenges that often hinder business growth and the mindset shifts necessary for leaders to evolve from founders to successful CEO…
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Send us a text In this episode, Desi sits down with Sanjay Lobo, the CEO of OnHand, the leading volunteering platform revolutionising employee engagement. From his humble beginnings in South London, to his impressive career trajectory through senior roles at Lastminute.com and Vistaprint, Sanjay shares his unique journey from lawyer to tech founder…
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Send us a text If you're a football fan, you might remember Thomas Robson-Kanu from his Premier League days at Reading F.C. or his spectacular goal in Euro 2016, which helped Wales reach the semi-finals. Today, Thomas is the founder and CEO of The Turmeric Co., one of the UK's leading functional beverage companies. Born from his personal health jou…
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Send us a text Diego Borgo is a seasoned Web3 and Metaverse advisor with a track record of guiding Fortune 500 brands and boasting collaborations with companies like adidas and Mastercard. He’s also the co-founder of BorgoLabs, a consultancy that helps companies position themselves and drive growth in the Web3 space. We recently collaborated with D…
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Send us a text Today, we’re speaking with Jack Parsons and Leon Marseglia - the forces behind the UK’s largest community for young people, The Youth Group. Since launching the company 4 years ago, "Young Jack," as he's often called, has managed to grow their community to 1.7 million young individuals and connect thousands of them with some of the b…
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Send us a text Whether you're into crypto or not, many foresee blockchain as the foundational layer for future technologies. From finance and healthcare to entertainment and sports, the consensus seems clear: "The Future Will Be Tokenised." Join us in this super interesting conversation with Brent Annells, CMO of Smart Token Labs. With a background…
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Send us a text Eamonn Carey is a seasoned investor, the General Partner at Tera Ventures, a former Managing Director at Techstars, an advisor to dozens of startups, a founder, an author, and a former journalist. With experience evaluating thousands of deals, we thought he would be the perfect person to discuss the investment climate in Europe. In t…
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Send us a text In this episode of The Product Show, we explore the intersection of sports and web3, questioning whether web3 can fix the broken aspects of football or if it's too broken itself to make a difference. We all know that fan engagement is essential in sports, and web3 and NFTs seem to be the perfect tools to harness the power of communit…
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Send us a text Oliver Yonchev is the co-founder and CEO of Flight Story, a company he co-founded with Steven Barlett in 2021 that "helps brands stay at the forefront of what’s possible". Prior to Flight Story, he served as the managing director of Social Chain, one of the most successful social media marketing agencies in Europe. In this episode, w…
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Send us a text Two years ago, "two kids, one from Singapore and the other one from Africa" left their jobs to set up a company. It all began with a single spreadsheet and their obsession to build a product that people really need. Today, their venture, ADPList, has over 15,000 mentors and hundreds of thousands of users, helping people all around th…
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Today I’m joined by Carole Egerton. Carole is founder and Chief Product Officer for Clear Eye Test and formerly of Glasses Direct. Clear is bringing the eye test into the home and building an ecosystem for virtual global eyecare. We talk culture, unshipping and of course making better decisions. Clear Eye Test. https://www.cleareyetest.com Carole o…
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Send us a text No matter if you’re in web2 or web3 , as you scale your products to cater to thousands of users, you’re faced with one of the most common challenges for technology startups - how to scale your engineering team fast. Scaling is not just about rapidly hiring people, it’s about building resilient systems and effective team structures th…
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Send us a text Is “complete decentralisation” possible any time soon? Can human nature handle it? When are we going to have a really immersive, organic Metaverse experience (as opposed to just having fun with our lookalike avatars in a clumsy virtual environment)? What shall we do to avoid the mistakes we did with web2 and avoid tech giants swallow…
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Send us a text If you’ve been thinking how to bring your company into web3, this episode is for you! We’re back with a set of super interesting episodes dedicated to web3. Diego Borgo is a Metaverse native, Web3 ambassador, NFT collector and advisor to global brands. Diego's mission is to help mainstream adoption of blockchain and NFT technology. H…
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Send us a text The car insurance provider Marshmallow went from an idea to one of the latest UK unicorns in just 4 years! Founded by twin-brothers Oliver and Alexander, and their friend David, the company is turning the centuries-old insurance industryon its head. We spoke to their VP of Product Martin Shwitzner to find out how they’re achieving th…
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Send us a text We spoke with Raluca Bujoreanu, Principle Product Manager at Zalando and instructor at Product School to discuss how the product needs change depending on the size and maturity of the company. Raluca shared with us: Her favourite methods for evaluating product features and continuously uncovering user problems before they become majo…
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Send us a text Personal branding expert Amelia Sordell started her personal branding agency Klowt last year and in just over a year they’re a team of 7, serving dozens of clients and growing. How come they’re growing so fast? Well, first - Amelia is absolutely amazing! She’s confident, authentic, interesting. She does what she preaches - she has bu…
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Send us a text There’s one question we’ve been asking almost all our guests so far - have you ever done a small UX tweak or a product improvement that had a disproportionately high impact on the product, considering the effort it required. Something tiny that turned out to be a big win. In fact, finding out the answer to this question was our main …
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Send us a text If you’re a startup founder, you’ll find our conversation with Matt Lerner super valuable! Matt is the founder and CEO of Startup Core Strengths, a growth accelerator and training for early-stage startups. With 11 years at PayPal and almost 4 years at 500 Startups in his resume, he’s the perfect person to learn from when it comes to …
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Send us a text Zoë Desmond is the perfect example of how the founder’s personal story and pain empowered them to create a product that solves a problem for millions of people. Zoë's app Frolo helps single parents access guidance and support, connect with each other and organise events and playdates. With 3 million single parents in the UK and almos…
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Send us a text As Head of Product - Engagement at ASOS and with two books and dozens of talks and events in his resume, Marc Abraham has mastered the art of managing growing products with way too many moving parts - from processes and frameworks to people and tools. As he puts it, no two days are the same, and “the job of a product manager is never…
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This time I’m joined by Tin Kadoic from Instagram. Tin leads the design management team for Reels at Instagram and was previously at Airbnb. We talk culture, unshipping and of course making better decisions. * [Tin’s website](https://blackduke.com/) * [Tin on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/blackduke/) * [Tin on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ti…
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Send us a text We get so obsessed with building the perfect digital experience that we sometimes forget that for many products, even if they rely on digital, the magic for the customer happens offline. We’ve been keen to speak to a company that successfully bridges the gap between the offline and online CX and we finally found the perfect product p…
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Send us a text How do you define “hypergrowth”? If you google examples of hypergrowth companies, Uber and Revolut would be some of the first examples you’ll see. For this reason and because I think she’s a fascinating product leader, I spoke with Irina Scarlat, who was Global Head of Growth at Revolut until March 2021 and she also let Uber's growth…
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Send us a text Trust and Safety is sometimes everything when it comes to retaining users, yet we don’t discuss this topic enough in the product community. It’s one of those aspects of building a product that we don’t think about in the early days until it becomes a problem. We discussed the topic with Neil Shah, who leads the Trust & Safety efforts…
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Send us a text Growth design is a central part of the way we think about design at Pony and it was an absolute pleasure to discuss the topic with one of the senior design leaders at Dropbox, Phil Vander Broek. He comes with a wealth of experience in growth design and is super excited about the future of this field and how they approach results-driv…
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In this Mind Your Business with Renzie session, Judy Bradt (she/her) and I discuss diversifying for growth. For business owners who are interested in government contracting, she shares some strategies to be successful. #businessowners #businessowner #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #marketing #businessgrowth #smallbusiness --- Support this podcast: …
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I’m joined by Selena Hadzibabic. Selena is VP of product for the global wedding company the Knot Worldwide. You might know them as Hitched in the UK, Wedingwire in North America and India. We talk optimising decision making, decisions now or later and how to asses the competitions' decisions. - Selena on Twitter https://twitter.com/dzishn - Selena …
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Send us a text Patrick Campbell is the founder and CEO of ProfitWell, a software that helps subscription companies with their monetization and retention strategies. He strongly believes that people should get more comfortable with working on their pricing strategy and should avoid “the path of least resistance”. It’s not easy, but it’s not more dif…
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Send us a text “Humble Decisiveness” is the Most Important Quality of a Product Manager - Megan Murphy, VP of Product at Hotjar We spoke with Megan Murphy, VP of Product at Hotjar, to find out how they’re growing one of the most successful user research products in the world and how their fully remote team is serving over 700,000 businesses. Megan …
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In this episode, my good friend Stacy Vaughn will share strategies to take your business to the next level and ways to mind your business relationships to achieve revenue goals. Stacy was a contracting officer and offers more than 20 years of experience in Federal government contracting. She is also a small business owner and works with small busin…
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Send us a text Eric Peters, product manager at HubSpot Academy, shares how offering online education and certification can empower product growth. HubSpot Academy is the worldwide leader in free online training for marketing, sales, and customer service professionals. With over 200,000 customers, it has become the hub for their prospect and existin…
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Joe Leech talks to Meri Williams. CTO of AI healthcare startup Healx, former CTO of Monzo, Print on demand Moo and Marks and Spencer. Chair of the fantastic lead developer conference. We talk collaboration with Product & Tech, overlap of disciplines, inputs to decision making and more.By Joe Leech
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Send us a text How do you build the safest and smartest marketplace in the world? - You add friction. But how do you grow and scale it - you get rid of friction. This is one of the biggest challenges you’d face if you’re building a marketplace in the childcare industry. We spoke with Ari Last, founder of Bubble, to find out the ups and downs of bui…
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Jeff is the co-author of Lean UX as well as the Harvard Business Review Published Sense and Respond. He coaches organisations to create a better culture that creates better products. We talk retraining execs to trust the team and what do when your competitor offers a product for free. - Jeff's website https://jeffgothelf.com - Jeff on Linkedin http…
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Sally is Head of Engineering at Farewill, a company who helps people deal with death, think wills and funerals. Before that Sally was acting Engineering Director / web discipline lead at UK challenger bank Monzo. Sally's website https://sallylait.com Sally on Twitter https://twitter.com/sallylait Farewill (They are hiring!) https://farewill.com/car…
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Send us a text What's the role of Product Marketing in the product management puzzle? Tessa Pettman leads the Product Marketing team at TransferWise, one of the most impressive fintech startups in the world! They were founded in 2011 and were recently valued at $5 billion, with over 8M active users around the world. In this interview, Tessa shares:…
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Send us a text Emeric Ernoult is the co-founder and CEO of Agorapulse, a social media management tool aiming to be in the Top 3 social media SaaS products in the world for SMBs. He's been through 12 years of failure, according to his words until he and his co-founder Ben finally founded Agorapusle in 2012. As he says, he's "a dinosaur of SaaS". Eme…
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Mr Joe Leech talks to Christian Gonzalez from YouTube. Christian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-gonzalez-yt/ Christian lead’s a team of quantitative and qualitative User Experience Researchers at YouTube and has worked with various product teams at Google. He has a PHD in Human Factors and Applied Cognition and together we talk …
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Mr Joe Leech talks to Martin Eriksson. Martin has helped shape the product management industry as we know it. As the co-Founder of both ProductTank and Mind the Product – together, the world’s largest product community that brings together people in more than 200 cities across the world. He’s also co-author of the best-selling book, Product Leaders…
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Send us a text Former financial analyst Dhruv Ghulati and his team are working on an AI startup with a mission to restore trust in news media. In this episode you will learn: - What should be your strategy if you want to raise funding from world-class investors like Mark Cuban, Biz Stone, and Craig Newmark; - When you should listen to your customer…
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Please join me with Kimberly Starks for this session What is your online presence, and how are you adapting to the digital landscape? In next week's podcast, I will discuss digital strategies, social media, branding, systems, and platforms to elevate your business! Kimberly is an accredited communication and marketing expert. She is a public relati…
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Send us a text Callum McKeefery is the co-founder and CEO of Rreviews.io, a company offering reviews collection and management solutions. He shared with us how he started the company 10 years ago from his kitchen table with his wife and co-founder Nikki and how they grew to 10M in revenue with no investors funding. In this episode you'll learn: - H…
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Mr Joe Leech talks to Curtis from Delivery Hero; the largest global food network outside of China, with more than 4 million food orders a day operating in 600 cities across the world. With brands like Food Panda they are a food global powerhouse you probably haven’t heard of as they don’t have a US or UK presence. Curtis talks about planning produc…
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My guest for this episode is Marvin Hamlin. He is the CEO of Accounting Integrated Systems. Accounting, Integration & Management Solutions, LLC (AIMS) was founded out of a desire to meet the increasing need for industry experienced individuals to provide their knowledge, experience, and best practices to growing government contractors, non-profits,…
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I am excited to make the first introduction podcast to launch this product. This project has been in the works for a while. When COVID-19 disrupted my business, it was the motivation to pivot and create this podcast. This platform is devoted to thought-provoking conversations that will inspire you and will also share stories about fatal mistakes an…
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Mr Joe Leech talks to Harpal Singh. Harpal has taken three AI / ML products from zero to $20M+ in revenue and scaled two products to $100M and $300M+ He’s also winner of the 2019 Product visionary award. - Harpal Singh’s Website https://www.harpalsingh.com/ - Harpal on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/harpalcpo/…
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