Mastering Tech Growth

Mastering Tech Growth

Welcome to Mastering Tech Growth, where we dive deep into the strategies, challenges, and triumphs of scaling tech-driven ventures. Join us as we explore the dynamic world of technology businesses, uncovering the secrets behind successful growth trajectories. Each episode brings you candid conversations with founders and industry experts, sharing invaluable insights, proven tactics, and real-life stories. Whether you're a budding entrepreneur or a seasoned professional, discover the roadmap to navigating the complexities of scaling in the ever-evolving tech landscape.

Episodes

Process Mapping Yourself Away From Organisational Complexity and Chaos with Michael Schank

June 10, 2025 • 67 mins
For today’s episode, Mike is joined by Michael Schank, the founder of Process Inventory Advisors and the author of Digital Transformation Success. For over two decades, Michael has helped companies clean up the way they work so they can grow without the chaos. Today, Michael walks us through his process and inventory framework. He breaks down the simple steps most startups skip which lead to small bits of waste within their process...
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What are VCs Really Looking For? with Alexandra Nicoletti

June 3, 2025 • 82 mins
Do you want to know what separates the startups that get funded from the ones that don´t? Today, Mike is joined by Alexandra Nicoletti, a partner at Camber Creek, one of the leading VC firms. Prior to this, Alexandra was in real estate and private equity at Apollo and worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs.  Alexandra has seen every version of a pitch you can imagine. Today she breaks down exactly how to target the right in...
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Zero Ad Spend, Maximum Growth: How Ben Sharf Built Platter Using Founder-Led Content

May 27, 2025 • 53 mins
If you're serious about scaling without relying on paid ads, this episode is for you. Today, Mike is joined by Ben Sharf, co-founder of Platter, creator of 160+ Shopify storefronts, angel investor, and host of Turning Pro. He breaks down how shifting from company marketing to founder-led storytelling can be your biggest growth hack. Founders don’t win because their posts are perfect—or because they pour money into ads. They win be...
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How to Scale as a Solopreneur Without a Team by Leveraging AI with Mike Todasco

May 20, 2025 • 65 mins
For today´s episode, Mike is joined by Mike Todasco a visiting fellow at San Diego State University and former director of Innovation at PayPal. Mike holds over 100 patents and has a passion for leveraging AI to get things done fast. If you are a solopreneur who wants to scale quickly without building a team, this episode is very much for you. KEY TAKEAWAYS AI genuinely can super charge your business. Experiment to get the most...
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Staying Visible in the World of AI Search and Invisible Clicks with Quentin de Quelen

May 13, 2025 • 72 mins
Today, Mike is joined by Quentin de Quelen the CEO and cofounder of Meilisearch, one of the fastest growing open-source search engines, which can easily be integrated into websites and applications. Quentin helps companies create fast, customisable, typo-proof search experiences.   Today, for research, 46% of Gen Z prefer Instagram and TikTok. YouTube is now the go-to for tutorials and reviews, while ChatGPT, Perplexity, Voice Ass...
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How to Plan for 10x Growth Without Over Engineering with Marcus Fontoura

May 6, 2025 • 78 mins
For today’s episode, Mike is joined by Marcus Fontoura, Azure Core CTO, Technical Fellow at Microsoft, holder of 50 patents and the author of A Platform Mindset. Marcus is certainly a man who knows how to scale tech without breaking it. If your startup is taking off so fast that you can’t keep up or are drowning in bugs and relying on hot fixes and workarounds to hold things together, this episode is for you. It teaches you how to...
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Using LinkedIn to Supercharge Growth with Graham Riley

April 29, 2025 • 78 mins
For today’s episode, Mike is joined by Graham Riley, a LinkedIn strategist, speaker, and founder of LinkedIn Enterprises. For 20+ years, Graham has been helping B2B companies generate millions in revenue using LinkedIn. His strategies don´t just get you likes; they drive deals. He and Mike discuss how you need to respond to drastic algorithm changes, why your execs need to engage on LinkedIn, quickly create content, take advantage...
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SaaS Conversion Alchemy - Using Copy, UX and Decision-Making Psychology to Gain More Customers with Chris Silvestri

April 22, 2025 • 71 mins
For today’s episode, Mike is joined by Chris Silvestri, the founder of Conversion Alchemy. Chris helps B2B SaaS companies break through the noise, reach more would-be customers and show them why they are the obvious choice. Chris’s carefully honed approach uses the alchemy of copy, UX, and decision-making psychology to turn browsers and visitors into loyal, paying customers. He digs deep into customer research, pulls out real insi...
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Supercharge Your Commercial Product By Doing Open Source the Right Way with Lukas Gentele

April 15, 2025 • 63 mins
For today’s episode, Mike is joined by Lukas Gentele, CEO and co-founder of Loft Labs, to discuss how to ensure that your open-source project doesn’t end up being one of the 80% that fail. Lukas has successfully launched multiple open-source projects and turned them into profitable businesses. Through this episode, he provides the bones of a framework you can use to do the same. KEY TAKEAWAYS Open source needs to solve real prob...
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How Tech Entrepreneurs Can Turn Clicks into Revenue with Sam Piliero

April 8, 2025 • 59 mins
Today, Mike is joined by Sam Piliero, founder of The Moonlighters, a marketing agency helping brands scale profitably. Sam and his team break down why most brands struggle to scale their ads, and how small fixes in strategy can make the difference between them running ads that are burning cash and ads that enable firms to scale profitably. Sam explains how to use AI for marketing, work out what strategy is right for your company a...
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92% of Startups Fail – How To Use PRFAQ To Make Sure Yours Isn't One of Them with Marcelo Calbucci

April 1, 2025 • 55 mins
For today’s episode, Mike is joined by Marcelo Calbucci, the author of PRFAQ Lab. He has been successfully growing startups for 18+ years and is a former Amazon exec. His book PRFAQ Lab breaks down the framework Amazon uses to determine whether an idea is viable and how to develop it. This framework has helped to ensure that in a world where 92% of start-ups fail, most of Amazon´s succeed. As do other start-ups that use the framewo...
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Stop Wasting Time with Bad AI Outputs: Get Results That Move the Needle with Jonathan Mast

March 25, 2025 • 63 mins
For today’s episode, Mike is joined by Jonathan Mast, the founder of White Beard Strategies. He is a leading voice in AI prompting mastery with over 400,000 followers. Jonathan has helped 1000s of business owners and entrepreneurs unlock AI's full potential using his structured four-step framework. Enabling some of them to experience a 5,000% uptick in their ROI. This episode is a must listen if you want to stop wasting time with ...
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Revolutionise your SEO to acquire traffic that converts into actual sales with Aditya Jain

March 18, 2025 • 57 mins
Mike speaks to Aditya Jain, the co-founder of Passion Fruit and a leading SEO growth strategist who has helped companies move beyond vanity metrics and generate income from their SEO efforts. They discuss why most businesses get SEO wrong and spend too long chasing rankings instead of revenue. Many are targeting high volume low intent keywords. Aditya Jain is going to change the way you think about and use SEO. He provides truly p...
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Master the Art of Effective LinkedIn Outreach To Generate Leads and Close Six-Figure Deals with Peter Kaliuzhny

March 11, 2025 • 73 mins
Mike speaks to Peter Kaliuzhny, the founder of GetSales.io, who is an expert on B2B sales. He has closed numerous six figure deals with Fortune 100 companies. Peter leverages LinkedIn and can turn any profile into a lead generation machine, which is free to use. Peter explains how to optimise your LinkedIn profile, create break-through first connection messages and generate inbound profile links. He shares how to understand your c...
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Turning Promising Ecom Brands into $10m/Yr+ Profitable Winners with Sabir Semerkant

March 4, 2025 • 86 mins
Today, Mike is joined by Sabir Semerkant, a top E-commerce growth strategist, with 25+ years of experience. Over the years he has helped brands like Coca Cola, Canon and Tommy Hilfiger to achieve massive growth. Sabir has turned that expertise into his 8D Method - a step-by-step framework for unlocking scalable, profitable e-commerce growth. His rapid 2x program has helped brands grow by an average of 108% in just 21 days In this ...
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The Art of Recurring Revenue: Lessons From Scaling a 5,500+ Employee Business with Pranav Dalal

February 25, 2025 • 71 mins
Mike speaks to Pranav Dalal founder and CEO of Office Beacon, a leader in remote staffing solutions that has grown the company from just five employees in 2001 to 5,500+, without any VC funding. He and Mike talk about how to identify your competitive advantage, leverage it, and how to automate successfully. They also discuss how to create an irresistible hook to break through the noise and get your conversion rate into double figur...
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How To Turn Your Expertise Into 7 Additional Income Streams with Katrena Friel

February 18, 2025 • 89 mins
Mike is joined today by Katrena Friel to discuss how to turn your expertise into 7 new streams of income. Katrena is a business mentor, TEDx speaker and award-winning author who has spent 25 years helping professionals turn their skills into thriving businesses that give them real freedom. Katrena reveals how you can turn what you know into 7 new income streams and do so within the next 90 days. KEY TAKEAWAYS Personal growth is...
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Combining SEO and AI to Create Effective Content and Land More Customers with Jade Pruett

February 11, 2025 • 68 mins
For this episode, Mike sits down with Jade Pruett, an award-winning SEO specialist and founder of HelloSEO, with an impressive client list that includes CNN and Business Insider. She uses AI to create authentic and effective content. Doing so in a fast and effective way that was just not possible pre-AI. She shares several in-depth techniques that you can start using immediately. Learn how to turn AI from a shortcut into a secret ...
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Using Predictive AI to Attract and Retain High Value Customers with Eran Friendinger

February 4, 2025 • 63 mins
Mike speaks to Eran Friendinger the cofounder and CTO of Voyantis, a company that helps businesses grow using AI. Including big brands like Lennar, Miro, and Figma that have used his strategies to get 20 to 50% better results from running their ads.  Scaling in 2025 isn't about doing more. It's about working smarter with AI. If you're not using AI to help you, you're wasting time and money while your competitors are speeding ahead...
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Developing the Right Founder's Mindset to Fuel Tech Growth with David  Hirschfeld

January 28, 2025 • 85 mins
Today, Mike speaks to David Hirschfeld, a seasoned entrepreneur who has worked on 30+ tech and software startups to discuss why developing a founder mindset is critical. David explains why founders need to switch from a creative to a managerial mindset. He shares why taking a clinician's approach, testing and measuring results, embracing failures as learning experiences, and being open to pivoting are all so essential. David also ...
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