Welcome to The Scale Lab podcast: Intro episode

5:08 – Constantijn – “There’s a very high urge to innovate. We (i.e. Dutch) are good architects, good designers in general. Building a business to make a lot of money doesn’t seem to drive Dutch people in the same way compared to other countries. It’s more about making an impact.”

8:50 – Joe – “We need people whose auto-reaction is not ‘take it slow, be pragmatic, don’t take any risk.”

9:15 – Joe – ” I don’t see a path to this type of growth that we discuss without the risk piece being there. Take a chance, go bigger, try harder. Not just work more, but try to envision bigger.”

12:32 – Constantijn – “We have a small market. So somewhere in the mindset you have to immediately introduce that you’re building a business that should go beyond the boundaries of the Netherlands.”

15:00 – Constantijn – “I don’t think we’ve done a lot in the Netherlands to attract talent. In fact, Amsterdam – and the Netherlands in general – are ranked quite highly for livability, and people do want to come here, but we haven’t ever done wide skill acquisition.”

27:23 – Constantijn – “I think that this podcast should really contribute to sharing the insights of seasoned entrepreneurs. And if we can capture the insights of why some of those entrepreneurs have been successful, I think that’s something very valuable for the ecosystem.”

34:38 – Joe – “This podcast is about helping tech companies in the Netherlands, figuring out what it means to scale by showing them the people who have successfully done it.”

36:05 – Constantijn – “I hope to bring to the air some of our best and brightest entrepreneurs from the Netherlands, understand where they made a difference, what personal sacrifices they made, what choices they made, what came on their path, how they reacted.”