The Pursuit of Scrappiness
Whether you are building a business, running a team or just starting out in your career we are here to bring you scrappy and actionable insights to help you become more productive.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 226
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
🎧 Banter on inflation, global debt, political extremism, Ukraine, Russia & information war w/ Matthew Mezinskis (Crypto Voices podcast) Ep.86
We bring you a new format today - an uncensored banter about current events:
- Central bank money printing and Inflation
- Global currency dynamics
- European energy crisis
- Freedom and Bitcoin
- Possibility of go…
🎧 2/2 Sten Tamkivi (Plural, NFTPort) on his time at Andreessen Horowitz and Stanford, taking paternity leave & prioritising family. Ep. 85
Sten Tamkivi is one of the co-founders of Plural platform - an investment platform to support building European early stage companies into legendary, GDP-level impact businesses. Sten is also a Stanf…
🎧 1/2 Sten Tamkivi (Plural, NFTPort) on creating GDP-level impact with startups, Web3 & evolving angel investing. Ep. 84
Sten Tamkivi is one of the co-founders of Plural platform - an investment platform to support building European early stage companies into legendary, GDP-level impact businesses. Sten is also a Stanf…
🎧 2/2 Jevgeni Kabanov (Bolt) on preventing burnout, productivity hacks, importance of family & efficiency vs growth. Ep. 83
Jevgeni Kabanov is the Chief Product Officer and President at Bolt - Estonian mobility giant. Jevgeni also holds a PhD in computer science, was a founder of ZeroTurnaround and is an active angel inve…
🎧 1/2 Jevgeni Kabanov (Bolt) on what it takes to hire a great team, building a world-class product & importance of taking breaks. Ep. 82
Jevgeni Kabanov is the Chief Product Officer and President at Bolt - the Estonian mobility giant. Jevgeni also holds a PhD in computer science, was a founder of ZeroTurnaround and is an active angel …
🎧 Building Europe's top investing app, raising capital from Richard Branson & unicorn productivity tips from Wise w/ Martin Sokk (Lightyear) Ep.81
Martin Sokk is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lightyear - an app that makes investing lightyears better. Bringing his experience and practical learnings from Wise (Transferwise), Martin and his team have …
🎧 Scaling culture to 1000+ people, scrappy growth tips & how to implement Dalio's Radical Transparency in your team w/ Arnas Stuopelis (Hostinger) Ep.80
Arnas Stuopelis is the CEO of Hostinger - a tool that provides everything you need to create a website. Bootstrapped from day one, Arnas and his team have built a great product and massive organisati…
🎧 Listen to this if you want to start investing! The basics, common mistakes & current market trends w/ Tom Crosshill (Index Investors Europe) Ep.79
Tom Crosshill is the Founder of Index Investors Europe - an online training course for aspiring investors as well as the Co-Founder and member of the supervisory board at Indexo - an asset management…
🎧 Vishen Lakhiani (Mindvalley founder, NY Times Bestselling author) on building $100M ARR business, how to transform your life and which beliefs are holding you back Ep.78
Vishen Lakhiani is the founder of Mindvalley, one of the world's leading education platforms, which he founded in 2003 and now it has grown to over 10 million students worldwide. He is also the autho…
🎧 Tesla carsharing, busting myths about Electric vehicles and future of mobility w/ Egija Gailuma & Juhan Kaarma (OX Drive) Ep.77
Egija Gailuma and Juhan Kaarma are Co-Founders of OX Drive - a Tesla car sharing service in Riga or “the coolest thing in mobility since the horse”. Together with 2 more co-founders the team has set …
🎧 Intel’s CFO David Zinsner on leadership, making impact in global organizations, how to deliver ROI & prospects of solving semiconductor shortage Ep.76
David Zinsner is the Executive vice president and the CFO of Intel Corporation. Having participated in several transformations in such companies as Credo, Micron Technology and Affirmed Networks, D…
🎧 Cycling 30 000 km, capturing world’s media attention with innovative design and balancing creativity vs rationality w/ Aigars Lauzis (BeTRITON) Ep.75
Aigars Lauzis is the Founder, CEO and Designer of BeTRITON - an amphibious camper-trike, namely a vehicle that lets you drive on the road and sleep on the water. Aigars has a landscape architecture a…
🎧 All unicorns seemed like bad ideas initially w/ Raimonds Kulbergs (BADideas.fund) Ep.74
Raimonds Kulbergs is the CEO & Founder of BADideas.fund, a recently launched angel investor syndicate combining startup founders and operators that are ready to invest their money and help with hands…
🎧 Crypto meltdown, reaching $100 billion in trading volume, future of money & inside view of building a crypto business w/ Martins Benkitis (Gravity Team) Ep.73
Martins Benkitis is a Co-Founder at Gravity Team - a startup balancing the supply and demand across crypto markets worldwide. Martins and his team account for close to 1% of the global spot trading i…
🎧 Winning pitch competitions, validating product via YouTube, importance of your voice & Estonia’s startup relocation program w/ Nick Lahoika (Vocal Image) Ep.72
Nick Lahoika is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vocal Image - a speech training and voice therapy app. After relocating to Estonia from Belarus with his family and team, Nick is building a world class prod…
🎧 Conquering the lucrative amateur sports market with wearables. Lessons in tech and marketing w/ Atis Hermanis & Reinholds Pirags (Hackmotion) Ep.71
Atis Hermanis and Reinholds Pīrāgs are the CEO and CCO of Hackmotion - wrist sensor for amateur sports precision improvement. They are on a mission to help amateur golfers to fix their game with a un…
🎧 Investing in Ukraine despite the war, how startups are adjusting to new reality and predictions on war outcomes w/ Mathias Eklöf (Hype Ventures) Ep.70
Mathias Eklöf is a serial entrepreneur and investor with multiple startup exits. He is currently running his own investment company Hype Ventures. With extensive entrepreneurship experience, especial…
🎧 How to get more tech pros to put their knowledge & money into startups? w/ Akim Arhipov & Tim Vaino (Fund Fellow Founders) Ep.69
Akim Arhipov and Tim Vaino introduces Fund Fellow Founders (fff.vc) - a fund/angel syndicate to bring more smart money to regional founders and increase investing activity among C-level executives fr…
🎧 Estonian investment scene, backing Ukrainian startups & potential of sustainability tech w/ Helery Pops (Honey Badger Capital) Ep.68
Helery Pops is a co-founder at Honey Badger Capital - angel investor friends office out of Estonia. Helery brings 5+ years operating experience in product and sales in such companies as Pipedrive and…
🎧 The raise of Insurtech, can you insure against cyber & is it worth to share data to get better deals w/ Jan Kastory (astorya.vc) Ep.67
Jan Kastory is the Founding partner of astorya.vc - the first independent purely Insurtech focused VC in Europe focusing on early-stage startups. With hands-on operator experience from Euler Hermes, …