Ep 148: Kaarel Kotkas
On making tough decisions, building resilience & navigating your company through the storm with confidence + Recap of sTARTUp Day 2024
As promised during some of the previous episodes, we went to Tartu for sTARTUp Day 2024 and brought back a recording of a fireside chat with Kaarel Kotkas.
Kaarel is the founder and CEO of Veriff, one of the more recent Estonian unicorns that raised a 100m$ series C in early 2022 to hit the billion valuation mark. The 2 years that have followed have been very challenging and we sat down with Kaarel to talk about getting through challenging times, making tough decisions and building resilience,
What you can expect to learn from Kaarel:
What to do when you see warning signs of market slowdown
Strategies for keeping revenue up and growing during a downturn
How to manage investor relationships
The decision-making process and aftermath of doing 2 layoffs in 1 year
Taking extremely hard decisions and moving on as a leader and a company
How to define success when you have reached unicorn status
TIMESTAMPS:
01:00 sTARTUp Day 2024 impressions
10:00 Fireside chat with Kaarel
35:00 Uldis & Janis recaps the main lessons from the interview
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