Scaleup Leaders: Stories from Experience
Episodes
From Corporate VP to Startup CEO — Egil Østhus on Leadership, Culture, and Letting Go of Ego
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-Mobi...
The Culture Shift After Series A
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you’re suddenly in charge… and totally unprepared?In this episode, I speak with Gillian Davis, leadership strategist and found...
S2E03: Lidia Oshlyansky on Managing Without Artifacts, Creative Chaos, and When to Walk Away
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S2E02: From Google to Leading Change
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-perfor...
S2E01: Scaling Fast, Cross-Functional Leadership & Surviving Near-Failure – Interview with Maya Moufarek
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Google to high-growth scaleups to the boardroom, Maya Moufarek has spent 20+ years helping founders scale their businesses. As the founding CMO o...
EP 28 Interview with Cliff Hazell
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
EP 27 - Interview with Christian Meinerding, CEO & Co-founder at HiveMQ
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Ep 26 - Interview with Marc Sniukas, Strategy Advisor
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep 25 - Agenda-Driven Meetings
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Team meetings feeling lacklustre and unproductive? Do they often turn into lengthy sessions of updates that leave everyone feeling bored and frustrate...
EP 24 - Interview with Zoltan Vardy- Founder of The Launch Code™
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
EP 23 - My Top Ten Tips for Great OKR Implementation.
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Ep 22 - The Strawman Document
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What remote working teams lack is remote collaboration - a place where people informally put forward ideas, get input, rework them, agree, disagree an...
EP 21 - The One Page Plan for Better OKR Execution.
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
EP 20 - Why You Don't Want Individual OKRs
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
EP 19 - Does your strategy have a narrative like a Greek hero story?
16 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 pillar...
EP 18 - Interview with Nick Burne, Founder and CEO of GivePanel
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Burne is on a mission to help nonprofits large and small grow their fundraising on social platforms with his company, GivePanel.Nick started Giv...
Ep 17 - Interview with Nikos Kryvossidis - a former Director at Google.
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 grea...
EP16 Why and how should scaleups implement OKRs? Interview with -- Me!
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Ep 15 The What Why and How of OKRs
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Ep 14 The Stalemate Buster
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep 13 How To Build Your Portfolio Career - Interview With Ben Legg
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Legg is the co-founder of The Portfolio Collective, a company that helps people build portfolio careers and helps companies hire fractional talent...
EP 12 Planning and Executing OKRs
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I go through my 5-step process for the execution of OKRs.You've got your OKRs set up, and now it's time to do the work and actually ex...
Ep11 - Q&A on Scaleup Leadership and Managing through OKRs
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
These are questions I collected over the last weeks from comments and questions asked by future and current clients.0:04:20 - My CEO is incompetent. W...
EP09: How to Scale Tech Companies using OKRs (Interview with Allan Boyle)
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Allan Boyle of Saltwater Consulting. Allan helps Technology companies Scale Well, and we are both Amazon al...
Ep. 8 - Q&A on OKRs from a 100k+ employee company
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I was asked by a client (a large multinational) to hold a Q&A on OKRs. They have a large team of OKR coaches and wanted my perspective on several ...
Ep. 7 - How to Stay Nimble At Scale Feat. Amanda Colpoys
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Colpoys knows how to 👉 remain nimble at scale. 👈She has helped grow Moonpig, Gousto and OVO to unicorn status.Here’s what we discussed:...
Ep. 6 - Growth: The People Agenda feat. Janie Links
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the root causes for people problems in Scaleups?I will be talking all things Team & Peoplewith my friend and former colleague Janie Links...
Ep. 5 - Why your company needs a Chief of Staff - feat. Dora Nagy
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dora Nagy has worked at Google in Product Marketing and Global Sales Strategy and Operations, and at SoftBank and Kheiron Medical as Chief of Staff. S...
Ep. 4 - Q&A on Scaleup Leadership and Managing through OKRs
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for a Q&A. These are question I collected over the last weeks from comments and questions asked by future and current clients. 0:01:47...
Ep.3 - Mid-quarter OKR Review Meetings - How to do them well
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So you’re half-way through the quarterShould you check in on the progress of your OKRs? That’s what we cover in this episode:✅ How to check if y...
Ep. 2 - Interview with Christian Miccio
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Miccio is a UK-based ex-Google and Shazam (and others!) Product Leadership Consultant, working mostly with growth-stage startups.We talked a...
Ep. 1 - You've Set OKRs - Now WHAT?
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You've spent the time to set OKRs, you've announced them to the team... now what do you do in the weekly execution cycle to make them stick?Setting go...