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Tech Entrepreneur on a Mission Podcast

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Welcome to the Tech Entrepreneur on a Mission podcast. My name is Ton Dobbe. I am the founder of Value Inspiration and the author of ‘The Remarkable Effect’. I envision a world where every B2B SaaS business succeeds because they're creating software their customers would miss if were gone 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆:  Research consistently shows 90% of all startups fail. That's bad.  What's worse however is that +75% of SaaS Scaleups fail - companies that are supposed to have product-market-fit. Far too few Scaleups create the traction they aspire for and fail for the wrong reasons I believe this should stop - and hence I started my business and this podcast The goal I have with this podcast is two-fold: to inspire new forms of value creation by sharing compelling ideas and stories about the potential we can unlock when technology and people blend in the right way. Share experiences from tech entrepreneurs like you about what it requires to create a remarkable software business and how to overcome the roadblocks to do so.

Episodes

#210 - Nimrod Priell, CEO of Cord on leveraging Make/Buy/Partner in SaaS

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that gives B2B SaaS businesses the opportunity to increase their value by making their product multiplayer. My guest is Nimrod Priell, CEO of Cord. Nimrod has been a software pioneer from the very first start. He's got over 20 years of experience in development, data science, and product management and decided in 2019 it was time to make the jump to take on the entrepreneur role. He loves thinking about how we work and how we can make that exp...

Apr 13, 202252 minSeason 5Ep. 210

#209 - Daniel Erickson, CEO of Viable on nailing Product Market Fit

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to finally prevent us from relying on anecdotes that lead to biased decisions and with that build products customers love. My guest is Daniel Erickson, Founder, and CEO of Viable. Daniel has been active in software development since 2006. He took an untraditional path from most. Together with his co-founder he skipped college altogether and straight out of high school created a consulting firm in Portland to help early-stage...

Apr 06, 202238 minSeason 5Ep. 209

#208 - Scott Markovits, CEO Spontaneousli on creating problem-market fit

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to grow our happiness and connectivity at work - especially when we're part of a distributed team. My guest is Scott Markovits, CEO Spontaneousli. Over the past 8 years, Scott has worked with over 1000 early-stage founders and startups, helping them build the foundations of successful products, companies, and teams. He's passionate about building awesome new products and creating amazing employee experiences. Another aspect ...

Apr 01, 202243 minSeason 5Ep. 208

#207 - Rami Darwish, CEO Arrow Labs on empowering 2 billion deskless workers

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to enable desk-less workers to perform at their highest potential, with minimal intervention to their workday. My guest is Rami Darwish, Founder, and CEO of Arrow Labs Rami is a founder and entrepreneur in digital technology for the enterprise and b2b segment. He has a deep understanding of business growth and scale strategy. He's an expert in workforce management and digitalization of the field operation and beyond that, he...

Mar 23, 202251 minSeason 5Ep. 207

#206 - Adam Honig, CEO of Spiro AI on embracing a customer first mindset

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to relieve salespeople from having to use CRM, so they can focus on what they're best at: In the moment selling. My guest is Adam Honig, CEO of Spiro AI Adam has worked my entire career in the technology industry. His specialty is building companies and organizations that sell and deliver enterprise software and solutions in the B2B space. All of the companies that he helped found were focused on dramatically improving their...

Mar 16, 202246 minSeason 5Ep. 206

#205 - Gregory Lim, CEO Persosa on delivering transformative change

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to end the era of being inundated with media every single day. And my guest is Gregory Lim, Co-founder, and CEO of Persosa. Greg was the former CMO of Lifelock, and the founder of Qual & Quant, a full-service strategy, finance, and marketing agency. He combines his background in finance and marketing and believes that great marketing is the perfect combination of math and magic. He likes to challenge the status quo - and for...

Mar 09, 202249 min

#204 – Emil Jimenez, CEO Mind Bank AI on thinking big and long-term

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to the personal development and aging challenge for all of us. My guest is mil Jimenez, Founder, and CEO of Mind Bank AI Emil Jimenez is a marketing expert with over 18 years working on global campaigns. He started working in the communications industry as a web designer in NYC. In 2009 he opened Passion Communications in Prague with the vision of building a brand empire for himself and his clients. Since 2020 Emil has set o...

Mar 02, 202248 minSeason 5Ep. 204

#203 – Stine Mangor Tornmark, CEO of Openli on compliance as a competitive advantage

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to ​​help companies to build trust towards their customers and close deals faster by putting their privacy compliance on autopilot. My guest is Stine Mangor Tornmark, Co-founder and CEO of Openli. Stine has 10+ years of experience as a lawyer from Plesner law firm and Trustpilot. At Trustpilot, she built up Trustpilot’s Legal and Compliance teams and processes from when the company had one office with 70 employees to 850 emp...

Feb 23, 202239 minSeason 5Ep. 203

#202 – Manuel Bruschi, CEO of Timeular on developing products people are prepared to pay a premium for

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that gives each of us the power to fulfill our potential without sacrificing all the other good things in life. My guest is Manuel Bruschi, Founder, and CEO of Timeular. Manuel is a former web developer that has been recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30, a Ted speaker, and also a former Austrian National Champion in Rugby 7’s! He's passionate about the most important resource for a life worth living: Time. That's why he co-founded Timeular in 20...

Feb 16, 202240 minSeason 5Ep. 202

#201 – Jonas Vossler, CEO of Flow Lab on segmentation, resilience and the art of communication

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help ambitious people become more focused and productive. My guest is Jonas Vossler, Founder, and CEO of Flow Lab. Jonas is fascinated by everything that happens at the intersection of new technologies, business, and society. He's convinced that in today’s world, innovation is the primary driver for economic growth and for change in our society. It is due to the progress induced by a variety of innovations and inventions,...

Feb 09, 202248 minSeason 5Ep. 201

#200 – The best advice from B2B SaaS CEOs across 200 podcast episodes

Welcome to episode 200 of the Tech-entrepreneur on a mission podcast. Because this is a big milestone on the journey I didn't want to devote this podcast to one guest - instead I got 22. A big element of every single episode of the podcast is the advice from tech-entrepreneurs to other tech-entrepreneurs about the most valuable lessons learned in building a remarkable SaaS business. So I've made a hand-picked selection of quotes from the 200 episodes that have featured between the 1st of January...

Feb 02, 202247 minSeason 5Ep. 200

#199 – Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm, author of “How Hard Can It Be”

This podcast interview shares the big lessons learned from the failed attempts and required pivots running a startup that was on a mission to take down Facebook. My guest is Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm, author of "How Hard Can It Be" Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm is a consultant, lecturer, and head of sales and business development at GLOBHE. He is also the founder of multiple startups, including internalDesk, a SaaS platform for enterprise collaboration, where he served as COO. He's passionate about ...

Jan 26, 202252 minSeason 5Ep. 199

#198 – Jacqueline Schafer, CEO of ClearBrief on finding product-market-fit

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to make change to the effectiveness and fairness of our justice system. My guest is Jacqueline Schafer, Founder, and CEO of ClearBrief. Jacqueline began her career as a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison, and spent the majority of her career as an Assistant Attorney General in the Washington and Alaska Attorney General’s Offices, where she specialized in appellate pract...

Jan 19, 202248 minSeason 5Ep. 198

#197 – Volker Smid, CEO of Acrolinx on surviving a global crisis and coming out stronger

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to build the best content, connect people across the world and create happy customers. My guest is Volker Smid, CEO of Acrolinx Volker has more than 25 years of management experience in the software, internet, technology, and media industry around the globe. Throughout his career, he served as CEO of Searchmetrics and EVP Digital & Technologies at the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. He was CEO of Hewlett-Packard Germany, Vice ...

Jan 12, 202251 minSeason 5Ep. 197

#196 – Matt Compton, CEO of Filo on finding a repeatable business model

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to bridge the best of both worlds to create remarkable results in an increasingly remote workplace. My guest is Matt Compton, Co-founder, and CEO of Filo. Matt is a two-time founder and former IBM, ExactTarget, and Salesforce. He spent his entire career solving complex problems within product development, sales, marketing, and business strategy. Through a unique skill set combining engineering and business, he specializes in...

Jan 05, 202252 minSeason 5Ep. 196

#195 – Derek Mendonça, Co-Founder Singular Aircraft on creating products that drive word of mouth

This podcast interview focuses on the art of product innovation - and how people, not technology, often play a fundamental role in creating success. My guest is Derek Mendonça, Co-Founder Singular Aircraft Derek is a highly accomplished business leader with a passion for people & results; specifically, for empowering people to get the best results, aligned around an ambitious vision. He believes people perform at their best when they are challenged. When they are allowed to explore, encouraged t...

Dec 22, 202152 minSeason 4Ep. 195

How creative still remains a mystery to many – and why that’s holding us back in many ways

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help us maximize the impact behind all our creative decisions, and my guest is Anastasia Leng, Founder, and CEO of CreativeX. Early in her career, Anastasia gained experience in brand strategy at Interbrand, spent 5+ years at Google, where she worked on every ad tech and analytics product, led entrepreneurship efforts in EMEA, and was responsible for early-stage partnerships for Google Voice, Chrome, and Wallet. In 2012 s...

Dec 15, 202150 minSeason 4Ep. 194

The power of creating a culture of continuous improvement and an ability to solve problems quickly

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to enable people on the manufacturing floor to boost continuous improvements and focus on that matters. My guest is Martin Cloake, CEO of Raven AI Martin is an experienced executive and award-winning technology entrepreneur with a background in Manufacturing, Data Science, IP, and Operations Management. He holds multiple patents and is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He's a probl...

Dec 08, 202143 minSeason 4Ep. 193

To make the biggest impact we should blow up our calendar

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to let us all create a bigger impact, by spending less time in meetings. My guest is Alessandra Knight, Co-Founder, and CEO of Katch. Alessandra studied anthropology and has always had a passion for learning about different people and cultures. She values people-first thinking. And this landed her at Dots - a mobile game studio, where she quickly moved up to an operations-lead-slash-strategic-advisor role for the executive t...

Dec 01, 202137 minSeason 4Ep. 192

How to create an organization where the bulk of your employees are so committed that they are willing to put in their own money

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to shape the conditions where everyone can come to work in an environment that’s right for them. My guest is Nico Blier Silvestri, Co-Founder and CEO of Platypus. Nico has an extremely diverse and robust 15-year career in recruitment, working at industry-leading companies, including Yahoo!, Trust Pilot, and Unity. He's been pioneering his own brand of culture-centric recruitment. Through his time as Chief People Officer, Str...

Nov 24, 202150 minSeason 4Ep. 191

The value we can create when software makes its users remarkable

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to give all of us new options to communicate more humanly and be trusted faster. My guest is David Jay, Founder, and CEO of Warm Welcome David was recently named a Top 100 Tech Innovator and Influencer. David is a startup junkie, he has started service-based companies and several software companies. He believes that business can be a tool to help us build better relationships and connect us to a purpose far beyond ourselves....

Nov 17, 202147 minSeason 4Ep. 190

Value creation isn't often so much about the accuracy of your technology, but how useful it is in the eyes of the user

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help young people speak their truths and tap into their superpowers. My guest is Ivy Mahsciao, Founder and CEO of evrmore. Ivy is a champion for human potential who has a 20+ year background in consumer psychology and product science, with a category-defining product management portfolio that includes Genentech, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, and Nike. Today she's the CEO of evrmore - a startup that's on a mission to help ...

Nov 10, 202157 minSeason 4Ep. 189

A story about how to make workplace culture less accidental - and let people succeed in your business from the get-go.

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help create the workplace culture we'd all dream to work in. My guest is Petri Lehtonen, CEO of Flowtrace Petri is a startup leader turned into an entrepreneur. He's what he calls a professional Inter-team communicator. He's had significant exposure to strategic partnerships, nurturing startup cultures, and building cloud products. After 20 years of tackling the slow and manual processes of organizations and teams, Petri ...

Nov 03, 202143 minSeason 4Ep. 188

"When your back is up against the wall, that's when you do your most creative work"

This podcast interview focuses on the journey and the big resilience lessons learned by a startup as it moved from start, to launch, various pivots towards ultimate success. My guest is Paul Wickers, Founder, and CEO of Huggg.me Paul spent 14 years in the Structured Finance team at RBS and then Santander. During this time he came to study the social economics of the greetings card industry. He realized that the success of physically sending a greeting card in the offline world had never been ach...

Oct 27, 202151 minSeason 4Ep. 187

How seemingly subtle product strategy decisions can set you apart in a big way

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to grow the impact we can make by superpowering our communications. My guest is Surbhi Rathore, Co-Founder, and CEO of Symbl. Surbhi is an international tech leader who advocates for Women in AI with a personal mission to inspire more women to work in Data Science. She comes with experience from technical and customer-obsessed roles in both startups and enterprises such as Nevis Networks and Amdocs. She is a national speaker...

Oct 20, 202140 minSeason 4Ep. 186

A story about executing bold vision - one about reimagining the way the world works for the benefit of employees

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to transform our workplace into a fair workplace - starting with fair pay. My guest is Maria Colacurcio, CEO of Syndio Maria is a tech veteran – she previously co-founded Smartsheet, which went public in 2018. She spent three years at Starbucks, one of the first Fortune 50 companies to go public with pay equity results. Having started her career working on congressional campaigns, she has a long history of mission-driven wor...

Oct 13, 202144 minSeason 4Ep. 185

By thinking differently about three ways in which we approach data, we enable the future of the world

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to move us to where we are at the centre of our own digital life, and back in control over our own data. My guest is Julian Ranger, Executive Chairman and Founder of Digi.me. Julian is an aeronautical engineer specialising in interoperability and the military internet. He founded STASYS Ltd in 1987, and grew it to a staff of 230, with subsidiaries in the USA, Germany, Malaysia and Australia prior to sale to Lockheed Martin i...

Oct 06, 202156 minSeason 4Ep. 184

Radical Product Thinking - the art of creating world-changing products

This podcast interview focuses on the art to transform our visions into reality - and with that create products that create meaningful change. My guest is Radhika Dutt, Author of Radical Product Thinking Radhika is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She is an Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore’s financial regulator and central bank. She teaches entrepreneurship and ...

Sep 29, 202151 minSeason 4Ep. 183

How taking a radically different approach to solving a problem can move an entire industry into having a massive competitive disadvantage

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to provide all of us with a highly intelligent and hyper-personalized assistant. My guest is Peter Voss, Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Aigo AI Peter is a serial entrepreneur, engineer, inventor, and pioneer in Artificial Intelligence. He coined the term ‘AGI’ (Artificial General Intelligence) with fellow luminaries in this space. He started in electronics engineering, then fell in love with software. His first major s...

Sep 22, 202152 minSeason 4Ep. 182

Focus on Burn rate, People, and Product Innovation - a recipe to not only survive a crisis but to come out stronger.

This podcast interview focuses on the big resilience lessons learned during the recent Pandemic. My guest is Ronni Zehavi, CEO and Co-founder of Hibob Ronni has over 25 years of experience in multinational, hi-tech companies. Prior to setting up hibob, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Silicon Valley-based Bessemer Venture Partners. He’s the strategic advisor and co-founder of Team8 Cyber Security, a powerhouse developing disruptive tech in the cyber security space. Ronni was also the c...

Sep 15, 202135 minSeason 4Ep. 181
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