Notion Capital - exceptional founders, extraordinary journeys

Steve Brown is a Futurist, helping companies and organisations think through the digital challenges they were facing, and how new and emerging technologies could influence their own futures. Steve tru...

Parker Crockford explores how Fintech is developing and growing in the US and Europe, and what the breakout segments look like. He takes us through his thoughts on how to approach Fintech, the impact ...

Rav Dhaliwal is probably one of the most experienced CS leaders there is, having grown along, and witnessed, the explosion of Customer Success, and having held senior CS positions at Yammer, Zendesk o...

Chris Bruce talks us through the extraordinary growth journey of Thomsons Online Benefits (now Darwin), from the early days to how the business was acquired. ...

David Quantrell talks about his road to becoming Chair of a number of tech businesses and how startups should think about developing their Board as their business grows. With two IPOs under his belt,...

With a non-traditional path into tech, Pat Phelan has been right in the middle of the evolution of the Customer Success function. In this podcast, Pat discusses how Customer Success aligns with the vi...

Jonathan Gill, CEO at Panaseer, tells us how he plots the course of a rocketship company, delving into not just the sales and product direction, but also how effective leadership has the biggest impac...

John Kreisa has been in the middle of the data revolution for his entire career. He breaks down how to build your Marketing team around data products, and how to get the Sales motion humming along — a...

Erevena have helped many of the most recognisable names in Europe Tech hire their leadership teams. Dan Hyde, CEO, unpacks his invaluable learnings, as the war for talent stays as strong as ever. A mu...

Ingrid Burton, CMO at Quantcast, one of Silicon Valley's very best, talks through the relationship between Sales and Marketing, 'the squeeze play' and her hands-on experiences from Sun to Quantcast, c...

How founder Amandine Le Pape (with her Co-founder Matthew Hodgson) formed the vision for the missing layer of the web and created Matrix, a decentralised and highly secure open standard, which is now ...

Jason Corsello on how HR Tech has evolved over the years, what trends he sees emerging, and how the pandemic has accelerated changes in the employee experience. ...

Kamal Kirpalani has an amazing record in sales, and shares his thoughts on how to solve big customer problems, how to get the exec team onboard and finding key superpowers to build your team. ...

Jennifer Bers, who lives and breathes sales excellence, on how she has developed her skills, builds teams, grown companies and figured out the Go-to-Market formula. ...

“The Art of Exiteering”, or taking the long term view, in order to maximise the value of an M&A or IPO — building long term readiness to have a significant and positive impact on that outcome. ...

Understanding a VC firm's investment strategy is critical as a founder develops their investment proposition, but so is understanding the individual strategy of each partner in a firm. Itxaso Del Pala...

Within startups, internationalisation soon emerges as a topic, and typically the focus is on the US. We discuss this topic with Elizabeth Jamae the founding partner at Corporate Immigration Partners. ...

The three horizon mindset: the first horizon comes to: how are you executing on the promise of that thesis and to customers? The third horizon to: are you able to imagine how that market operates? The...

The type of companies that Notion Capital invests in are redefining the rules of an entire industry. They become synonymous with a category which they solve uniquely well. Stephen Millard and Paul Pap...

Venture-backed businesses ultimately have to unlock capital efficient growth in order to achieve the goals that they've set for themselves and for their stakeholders. Paul Papadimitriou and Stephen Mi...

Innovative, transformational pricing strategies and the biggest successes in tech and in SaaS: from value metrics, strategies to drive network effects and referrals, to freemium strategies to drive ac...

Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy, with bestselling author, Cindy Alvarez, Director of Customer Research, GitHub. ...

Martina Lauchengco is a Partner at venture capital firm Costanoa Ventures, and also a Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, where she leads on product marketing — a critical function for any high g...

Andy Leaver, Operating Partner at Notion Capital, on how do we build on the people, processes and tech to get to the next revenue boundary — the 1s and 3s. By Paul Papadimitriou, and Stephen Millard. ...

With Renn Vara, Co-Founder, SNP Communications Communication is critical in startups, especially as an organisation grows. Ensuring everyone across the business is aligned with the company's vision a...

With Hiroki Takeuchi, Founder and CEO, GoCardless For any CEO, one of their most important challenges is to hire extraordinary people - Game Changers - to join their senior leadership team. Notion re...

Alan Millard, Principal Consultant at The Table Group, explains the principles of smart and healthy leadership and why smart and healthy companies have more fun and grow faster. With Paul Papadimitri...

An in-depth interview with Hector Garcia, million bestselling author of Ikigai, the Japanese secret to a long and happy life. ...

In the final episode of our “Reimagining” podcast series, Sam Fromson, Co-Founder and COO at yulife, shares his COVID experiences, rescuing, recovering and ultimately reimagining his business and indu...

Nik Whitfield, Founder and CEO at Panaseer, shares his COVID experiences, rescuing, recovering and ultimately reimagining his business and industry. ...

Charlie Osmond, Co-Founder and Chief Tease at Triptease, shares his COVID experiences, rescuing, recovering and ultimately reimagining his business and industry, the most heavily impacted by the crisi...

Marius Luther discusses his vision for transforming the hiring and recruitment industry. ...

In the fifth episode of our “Reimagining” podcast series Andreas Brenner, the founder and CEO of Avrios, shares his COVID experiences of making the tough calls to build a better future for the busines...

Futrli will not discover the cure to this pandemic, but we might just help overcome the symptoms of the recession and enable a massive increase in SMB productivity. ...

Mads Fosselius is the CEO of Dixa, and as a customer services platform it was only natural for them to double down on helping customers work through these challenging times. ...

Conor O’Loughlin, founder and CEO of Glofox, shares his COVID experiences, rescuing, recovering and ultimately reimagining his business and industry. ...

Richard Valtr discusses his internal struggles with the changes he had to make, but also why Mews and the Hotel Industry will withstand and indeed benefit from the COVID shock to the system. ...

Jennifer describes why category design is so important in our crowded technology markets and why category design goes hand in hand with company strategy. ...

Pavla Munzarova explains the importance of investing time in data quality, systems and reporting to give everyone in the business the information they need to make better decisions. ...

Exploring the profound importance of pricing and monetisation strategies for SaaS success. ...

The best tech companies invest in real product leaders and empower their teams to solve strategic problems. ...

Melissa shares her thoughts on the importance of professionalism, setting expectations and beating them and why you should never win quietly. Because the sum of every single small success will be huge...

Yvonne describes her experience in building high performing teams, hiring at scale and for culture and managing remote teams. ...

Founders must be prepared to take themselves outside their comfort zone if they want to continue to lead a fast growth business. ...

Tae Hea describes how startups can unlock growth (find "Go-To-Market Fit") and why that requires executives and founders to unlearn. Highlights: - Why surfing? Unlocking growth feels like the transi...

Glofox mission is even bigger, Improving health and wellbeing on a global basis. That is something really worth doing. Highlights: - Building exceptional teams and an exceptional company in three di...

Despite massive tech advances, 50% of small businesses fail, says Hannah Dawson. We want to play our part in helping those companies fulfill their potential. Highlights: - As a former small business ...

Michael Grupp, Founder and CEO of Byter, the no-code automation platform shares his hopes, fears and desires for this new decade Highlights: - As a lawyer I was scared of the future and sold the stat...

David Williams, founder of Arqit - the quantum encryption company Highlights: - Creating global scale, making a tonne of money and having a lot of fun doing it. - My biggest challenge? Hiring the ver...

Chris Tottman discusses his hopes and fears for the next ten years Highlights: - A new category of venture capital. It’s got to be so much more than just a fund. - For me, calmness is success and it...