Have you ever wondered how unicorns scale their teams? How do team leaders handle upskilling? or how do they hire top talents and freelancers in today's workforce revolution? We did! That's why Shahar Erez, Co-founder, and CEO of Stoke Talent, and Romi Davidor, Stoke’s Marketing Manager, started a podcast just for it. How I Scaled My Team uncovers how executives of some of the fastest-growing tech companies build teams for success. In each episode, we will learn how to hire top talents, when ...
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End of season special - how exactly do you scale a team?
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In this week’s episode, Shahar and Romi look back at the conversations they’ve had this season with CEOs, founders, VPs and team leaders from some of the fastest growing tech companies in the world. They hear their stories, their highs and lows and their best advice on how best to scale a team. This season started when the economic market was at it…
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The hindering impact your cross-functional relationship has on hypergrowth
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In this week’s episode, Romi talks with Maggie Hott, Director of Sales at Webflow. Since joining the company in 2021, Maggie has seen significant growth in the sales team. In the last 6 months alone, it has grown from 10 to 100 people. The success of this can be attributed to Maggie’s comprehensive hiring process, something which she believes is th…
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In scaling a company, are flat organizational structures practical?
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In this week’s episode, Shahar and Romi talk with Lotte Vester, Head of Organisational Strategy at Asana. Like many tech companies, Asana is a fairly flat organisation with very few staff having titles. Whilst it isn’t unique in the industry, Lotte explains how the only way this structure can work is if it is supported by the right culture. Fortuna…
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Global pandemics don't always halt hypergrowth
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In this week’s episode, Shahar and Romi talk with Ariel Cohen, CEO and Co-Founder of TripActions. TripActions have shown impressive growth since their launch, now boasting nearly 3,000 employees. But this hasn’t come without its challenges. When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the company had no choice but to let staff go. In addition, trying to reta…
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Rebuilding teams for high growth during remote work
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In this week’s episode, Shahar and Romi talk with Noga Halperin, Chief Revenue Officer of SciPlay. When Noga joined the gaming company seven years ago, they had two small centralised marketing teams in the States and in Israel. She took the unusual approach of growing teams in different locations across the globe, before deciding to centralise ever…
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Scaling globally through local GMs - madness or genius?
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In this week’s episode, Shahar and Romi talk with Jonny Steel, Vice President of Marketing at Payoneer. When Jonny joined in 2014, Payoneer was a start-up with a centralised organisation. Eight years later and it has now grown to a significant global company. Jonny explains how growth hacking was paramount to the expansion and success of the busine…
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How to motivate multicultural teams with organizational psychology
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In this week’s episode, Shahar and Romi talk with Nicholas Kontopoulos, Twilio’s VP Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. A marketing veteran with experience in 65+ countries, Nicholas has spent years building and scaling teams internationally. As a “Westerner operating in Asia”, he’s learned what works and what doesn’t when it comes to finding suc…
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How turning customers into “raving fans” fuels success
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In this week’s episode, Shahar and Romi talk with Eilon Reshef, Gong’s Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer. Gong have undergone significant growth in the past six years, accelerating from 10 employees to around 1200 in that short time. Eilon discusses the importance of hiring responsibly, why hiring fast is never beneficial and why it’s paramount …
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What it takes to scale internationally and keep salespeople on board
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In this week’s episode, Shahar and Romi talk with Nir Goldstein, VP Sales at Monday. Monday has enjoyed phenomenal growth over recent years, rapidly scaling and expanding internationally. Nir’s role is to drive sales in EMEA + APAC, which has seen him build and manage multiple international sales teams. As well as explaining what skills, experience…
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Why Tech Leaders Need to Care About Company Culture too
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In this week’s episode, Shahar and Romi talk with Segev Baron, Senior Director of Engineering and Head of Israel R&D Center at Sage. Segev knows all about acquisitions from both sides – he’s worked at companies who have bought start-ups, and he’s been at start-ups that have been bought by bigger players. Acquisitions can bring uncertainty and excit…
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Why does it pay to be bold, transparent and confrontational?
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In this week’s episode, we talk with Jessica Williams, VP of People at Refine Labs, about how to maintain – and uproot – your organisational culture as you grow. All successful businesses reach a series of crossroads as they get bigger. Often, the strengths that led a start-up to its next stage come under threat from internal and external factors. …
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What Does It Take to Achieve Hypergrowth?
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In this week’s episode, we talked with Jonathan Shelmerdine, VP Product at SentinelOne, about their unique success story. SentinelOne’s path to hypergrowth looks easy from the outside, but like any successful business growth story, hard decisions had to be made at multiple stages. Jonathan highlights the importance of getting your strategy right – …
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From Fixing Companies to Building From Scratch
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In this week’s episode, we talked to Vered Raviv Schwarz, COO and President at Guesty, about the trials and trepidations of business growth. Vered talks about how COOs are ultimately looking to build a well-oiled machine, which means there are numerous aspects that need putting in place. Starting off with the right foundations, already in the minds…
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In this episode, Yoav Vilner, Co-Founder and CEO of Walnut, talks to us about the importance of hiring sales and marketing executives early on. Why? To ensure business success. The hiring landscape has changed – many talented employees are feeling underwhelmed in their roles because they aren’t getting what they signed up for. But this presents an …
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In this episode, Micha Kaufman, Co-founder, and CEO of Fiverr, gave us an overview of the workforce revolution through his eyes. He starts his journey 12 years ago, when he founded Fiverr, and takes us right up until today, looking at the accelerations of this revolution by gen Z entering the workforce. During the first year of the pandemic, organi…
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Winning the war for talent with authenticity
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The phrase "the war for talent" was first used in the late 1990s, to express that the competition for talented employees is becoming a huge barrier for companies. In the last decade, those conditions have only gotten worse, and it seems that today's battle is even more fierce. We talked to Sharon Bachar, CPO at Melio, a business-to-business payment…
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We must experience failure in order to grow. It is also inevitable. But maybe instead of trying to prevent it, we can actually accept it? Even encourage it? Perhaps failure is the thing that keeps us engaged and challenged in what we do? We talked to Benjamin Seror, CPO at Similarweb, who knows a thing or two about failures and successes. He joined…
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Arbel Zinger: Taking charge without taking over
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Arbel came into Lightricks, a company that develops video and image editing mobile apps, as the new VP Product Management, with a clear vision to restructure the entire Product team. Quite a challenge, right? But It was clear to him that, in order to succeed in this process, he must work with the team, and not against them. In this episode, Arbel w…
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It’s no secret that retaining employees is significantly less expensive than hiring new talent. But how do you keep them engaged, connected and motivated in today’s ever-changing and unpredictable workplace? Well, that is a bit of a challenge. Adina Eckstein, COO at Lemonade, a unicorn tech insurance company, walked us through the delicate art of k…
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How I scaled my Team uncovers how executives of some of the fastest-growing tech companies build teams for success. We have got amazing executives coming up on the show from SimilarWeb, Lemonade, Fiverr, Lightricks, and more, to share with us how they’re retaining great talent, handling Gen Z's different work requirements, coping with remote work, …
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