Turning Adversity into Success - with Mariane Bekker of Upward

Mariane is the Founder of Upward, a boutique recruitment agency based in Silicon Valley and specialising in Software Engineering roles in San Francisco, New York, and remotely. She launched it after the learnings of growing her previous engineering team as a CTO to 50 people.

Today she takes us back to March 2022.

At the time, she was working 100 hours a week, taking care of her young kids, and having no work-life balance. 

To add to this pressure, Mariane received an angry email from an influential woman in tech, who felt ghosted and who said will no longer recommend the services the company was providing. 

However, Mariane used this incident as an opportunity to reflect and realign her priorities. She decided to stick to her vision and make client satisfaction her top priority.

In this episode we discuss,

• The importance of client satisfaction
• How crucial delivering top-notch service is to the exponential growth of a company
• The importance of purpose in entrepreneurship.

Mariane stresses the importance of providing the best service to clients, maintaining a good reputation, and remembering one’s ‘North Star’. 

Tune in to this eye-opening episode on resilience and finding a purpose. Learn from Mariane’s inspiring journey and discover how she came around to finding her purpose in business. 

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