Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience

Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience

Richard Russell

Episodes 32
Avg. Duration 41m
Activity Sporadic
Since Apr 2022
Latest Episode Jul 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule
Monthly
Format
Episodic
Hosting
api.substack.com

Contact & Outreach

About This Podcast

Interviews with successful leaders of scaleups and big techs about the challenges they faced while scaling themselves and their businesses. The host, Richard Russell, has worked at Google and Amazon in product, technology and business leadership roles. He now works as an executive coach helping functional experts transform into strategic leaders in roles like CEO, CPO and CTO in scaleup environments. Learn more about Richard at www.richardrussell.co

scaleupleaders.substack.com

Social Media

Explore Statistics

Recent Episodes

From Corporate VP to Startup CEO — Egil Østhus on Leadership, Culture, and Letting Go of Ego

Jul 07, 2025 36m

This week, I’m joined by Egil Østhus — co-founder and CEO of Unleash, an open-source feature management platform used by teams at Wayfair, T-Mobile, Allianz, and more.Before launching Unleash, Egil…

The Culture Shift After Series A

Jun 26, 2025 1h 5m

What do you do when you’re suddenly in charge… and totally unprepared?In this episode, I speak with Gillian Davis, leadership strategist and founder of Overtime Leader, who’s spent the last decade…

S2E03: Lidia Oshlyansky on Managing Without Artifacts, Creative Chaos, and When to Walk Away

May 28, 2025 56m

What happens when you go from designing or building things yourself… to leading a team of 100+? And what if your career didn’t follow the standard product ladder to get there?In this candid and funny…

S2E02: From Google to Leading Change

Apr 01, 2025 48m

We often think great leadership is about having all the answers and staying composed under pressure. But what if the real key to leading a high-performing team is being open about your mistakes?In…

S2E01: Scaling Fast, Cross-Functional Leadership & Surviving Near-Failure – Interview with Maya Moufarek

Feb 27, 2025 43m

From Google to high-growth scaleups to the boardroom, Maya Moufarek has spent 20+ years helping founders scale their businesses. As the founding CMO of Pharmacy2U, she helped grow the UK’s largest…

EP 28 Interview with Cliff Hazell

Aug 24, 2023 1h

Being a scaleup leader can feel like herding cats.- You’re growing, that’s great.- But your growth brings problems.- You have more people but they get less done.- Autonomy used to work, now there is…

EP 27 - Interview with Christian Meinerding, CEO & Co-founder at HiveMQ

Aug 02, 2023 46m

Christian Meinerding is the Co-Founder and CEO of HiveMQ, a company he founded 11 years ago. He told me about his experience growing a business from scratch, raising a €40 million series A for a…

Ep 26 - Interview with Marc Sniukas, Strategy Advisor

Jul 04, 2023 47m

This week I'm joined by Marc Sniukas. Marc is a strategy advisor and he helps CEOs and leadership teams design and execute better strategy.We discuss why strategy can become a big complex monster and…

Ep 25 - Agenda-Driven Meetings

May 31, 2023 11m

Team meetings feeling lacklustre and unproductive? Do they often turn into lengthy sessions of updates that leave everyone feeling bored and frustrated?The problem is most likely that you're using a…

EP 24 - Interview with Zoltan Vardy- Founder of The Launch Code™

May 31, 2023 50m

Zoltan Vardy is a startup mentor who helps B2B tech founders struggling with sales to sell and market to enterprise clients. We had a great discussion about: Not adapting for every client to actually…

EP 23 - My Top Ten Tips for Great OKR Implementation.

May 23, 2023 19m

Many of my clients have had a bad experience of OKRs before working with me. And I noticed that the reasons they had been failing were the same.So I dug out all my past client notes, went through…

Ep 22 - The Strawman Document

May 17, 2023 8m

What remote working teams lack is remote collaboration - a place where people informally put forward ideas, get input, rework them, agree, disagree and come to an agreement!To create this, we need a…

EP 21 - The One Page Plan for Better OKR Execution.

May 10, 2023 18m

Unless you plan HOW you’re going to execute on your OKRs after you’ve set them, you probably won’t achieve them.But this is where I see a lot of my clients stumbling and making one of these mistakes:…

EP 20 - Why You Don't Want Individual OKRs

May 04, 2023 7m

It seems logical. You've got company level OKRs and team OKRs, so it would make sense to have individual OKRs, right?Wrong. Because... They undermine the benefit of cross-functional alignment you get…

EP 19 - Does your strategy have a narrative like a Greek hero story?

Apr 16, 2023 8m

Too often a business strategy consists only of 6 or 7 strategic pillars. So when it comes to writing OKRs, people have difficulty. Why? Because pillars don't tell you what to do next. They don't help…

EP 18 - Interview with Nick Burne, Founder and CEO of GivePanel

Mar 22, 2023 52m

Nick Burne is on a mission to help nonprofits large and small grow their fundraising on social platforms with his company, GivePanel.Nick started GivePanel in 2019 with one employee. Fast forward to…

Ep 17 - Interview with Nikos Kryvossidis - a former Director at Google.

Feb 15, 2023 1h 1m

Nikos Kryvossidis is the best manager I never had (he was my boss’s boss at Google, so not technically my manager)He had a knack for inspiring great loyalty among his team…protecting them from…

EP16 Why and how should scaleups implement OKRs? Interview with -- Me!

Jan 26, 2023 56m

Join me and Michal Bohanes on this episode as we go back to basics with OKRs.We’ll be covering✅ exactly what OKRs are✅ why you should use them to track your goals✅ how they fit in with your company…

Ep 15 The What Why and How of OKRs

Dec 21, 2022 1h 15m

Join me to learn what OKRs are, why use them, how to use them and how to get started. We'll go through the basics of OKRs and break some of the most common misconceptions that hold people back.At the…

Ep 14 The Stalemate Buster

Nov 30, 2022 36m

Ever been in a situation where your team is in conflict with another team, perhaps over shared resources, and you can't resolve it?Here's how to make progress using a simple document and meeting…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience have?

Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience has published 32 episodes since April 2022, covering topics in Business, Careers.

Is Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience still active?

Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 41m.

How do I contact Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience for sponsorship or guest appearances?

Sign up on Grep.FM to access contact details for Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience, including email and social media links.

Similar Podcasts