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Hosted by Mario Rivas · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 42 episodes
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🎙️ Startup Scaleup People shares real stories of how founders, execs, advisors, NEDs & fractional leaders build companies, careers & lives — from startup to scaleup to enterprise.We go deep on leadership, growth, funding, strategy, resilience, operations, exits, the human side of business and more.📈 Topics: business growth, scaleup journeys, innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, executive insights, human stories, resilience, failure, success, finance, operations, and more. 🎧 New episodes every Sunday at 4PM UK.🔗 Join us: linktr.ee/startupscaleuppeople
Mario Rivas hosts Startup Scaleup People, a business show with 42 episodes published.
Amrit Dhaliwal, founder of Walfinch, left hospitality, bought a franchise and spotted what most entrepreneurs completely overlooked: a £68 billion UK home care market with almost no one thinking seriously about scale, qu
Alessandro Hatami has spent 25 years at the heart of global fintech and banking, holding senior leadership roles at PayPal Europe, Lloyds Banking Group and GE Capital before founding Pacemakers and serving nearly a decad
Steven Pivnik failed his first two startups, built his third into a $40M revenue business operating across 20 countries, and sold it in 2020 completing due diligence in just 30 days. Now, as an exit advisor and author of
40% of Executive Transitions Fail, Navid Nazemian on the Leadership Gap. Navid Nazemian, executive transition coach and author of Mastering Executive Transitions, has coached 350+ senior leaders across 7 industries over
In this episode of Startup Scaleup People, Mario speaks with Cory Blumenfeld, serial entrepreneur, founder, investor-backed startup builder, and entrepreneur with multiple successful exits. Cory shares lessons learned fr
Amanda Groom Built the Bridge Between South Korea and Global TV Amanda Groom, founder of The Bridge, has spent 20 years helping broadcasters, streamers, and production companies expand internationally, turning South Kore
Tomás Bercovich, founder & CEO of Global66, scaled a Latin American fintech startup to $1.4B in Q1 2026 transaction volume, on just $20M raised. In this episode, he breaks down the scaleup strategy, capital-efficient gro
In this episode of Startup & Scaleup People, Mario sits down with Coen Jonker, Co-Founder of Tyme Group, one of the world's fastest-growing digital banking businesses.Tyme Group operates across South Africa, the Philippi
In this episode of Startup and Scaleup People, Mario sits down with Karen Prado, founder of ChimiLove, the award-winning South American sauce brand now stocked in more than 500 stores across the UK and Canada.Karen share
What does it really take to build resilience as a startup founder in high-pressure environments? In Episode 32, we explore mental fitness, emotional intelligence, neuroscience, and founder performance with Sasha Cayward
In this episode of Startup & Scaleup People, Mario sits down with Tessa Clarke, Founder & CEO of Olio, the climate-tech platform fighting food waste through hyperlocal sharing. Olio has grown into a global community with
What happens after a founder exits a company… and realizes the next big opportunity is even bigger? In this episode, Mario sits down with James Weiss, former bartender turned entrepreneur, inventor, and startup founder,
£900K Pipeline From a £20K Bet: Bilal's SaaS GTM Masterclass Most SaaS founders think go-to-market is broken — but the real problem is chasing shiny objects instead of mastering fundamentals. In this episode, Mario Rivas
What if you could clone yourself, and build an AI team that works for you 24/7? In this episode of Startup Scaleup People, Mario sits down with Cien, founder of LaunchLemonade, to break down how AI agents are transformin
What’s really happening behind the AI boom? In this episode of Startup Scaleup People, we sis down with Tim Daines, an enterprise AI expert working across the UK, Europe, and Dubai, to unpack the gap between AI hype and
In this episode, we dive deep into corporate governance, board dynamics, and the real role of non-executive directors with Kelly Kuhn, an experienced independent board director, chair, and former global C-suite executive
How Mathilda Strom Is Scaling AI in Healthcare In this new episode, we explore how leadership and AI are transforming the future of healthcare and drug discovery. Mathilda Strom shares how foundation models are reshaping
Want to scale your company from $100M to $500M? The secret isn’t just strategy, it’s culture.In this episode of the Startup Scaleup People Podcast, Mario sits down with Sharon Parmar, CEO of Humanity Works Consultancy, t
How Beth Crosier Helps Startups Become Investor-Ready | Startup Scaleup PeopleStartup and Scaleup founders often struggle with leadership, financial clarity, and funding strategy. In this episode, Beth Crosier explains h
Startup and Scaleup leadership today increasingly intersects with AI transformation, digital strategy, and operational change. In this episode, Rujuta Singh explains how enterprises should actually approach AI adoption,
Tessa Clarke
Co-founder and CEO · Olio
1 appearance on this show
Karen Prado
ChimiLove
1 appearance on this show
Bilal
UserPilot
1 appearance on this show
Cien
LaunchLemonade
1 appearance on this show
Mathilda Strom
Bioptimus
1 appearance on this show
Sharon Parmar
Humanity Works Consultancy
1 appearance on this show
Matías Acosta
Cosysense
1 appearance on this show
Tomás Maremaa
Encuadrado
1 appearance on this show
Vasily Alekseenko
Rare Founders
1 appearance on this show
David Rajakovich
Acuity Risk Management
1 appearance on this show
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Startup Scaleup People is hosted by Mario Rivas. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 42 episodes.
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