The StartUp to ScaleUp Game Plan
Business
Yusuf Ozdalga is a Partner at QED Investors and a Board member at Fidel API, Wayflyer, GetGround, Capitalise, Weavr, and Rest Less. He’s also a Jiu Jitsu bronze medalist!
During our interview we delved into mental health and addiction issues and the Operation Lighthouse initiative:
We also explored Yusuf's learnings from Jiu jitsu - and how these might help us in our professional lives - including how to handle unexpected developments and how to remain resilient in the face of powerful opposing forces.
And we discussed how people need to be more open-minded about paths so success - in life, in investment, and in business - there are always diverse approaches and perspectives you can leverage and deploy.
Yusuf explained how QED are leading by example on diversity issues and pushing their portfolio companies to measure and improve their progress with D&I
We also explored some of QED's major success stories like Wagestream - which is a superbly performing scale-up and a strong legacy that Greg Mazanec has left behind.
For more insights into QED check out https://qedinvestors.com/ and for support on mental health and addiction challenges head over to https://theoperationlighthouse.org/
For start-up and scale-up leadership advice - take a look at https://alpinasearch.com/
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