183. Søren Schønnemann, CEO, Factbird - The Hidden Growth Lever: How Strategic Hiring Fueled €10M ARR

In this episode, we’re joined by Søren Schønnemann, CEO, Factbird, the SaaS provider that helps manufacturers maximize their performance through manufacturing intelligence from Operator to Process Engineer to Plant Manager, 

We talk to Søren about the hiring strategy and organizational evolution that he's taken the company on to support their rapid growth, from 8 to 90 people while going from startup to breaking 10m Euro in ARR in less than 4 years.

Here are some of the key questions we address:

- Why was his first 2 hires a Talent Aqcuistion specialist and a Sales Ops way before they had a commerial and GTM team in place?

- How has his hiring philosphy evolved as the company needs evolved?

- How do you balance the need for personal growth of staff vs the need of organization growth?

- What have been some of the most tricky challenges through this growth spurt and how did they handle them?

- Which are his biggest lessons learned from growing the organization at this pace, and what would he do differently next time?

Tune in to learn how Søren and his team have supported the need of the organization with a unique look at who to hire at what point in time, spoiler alert it is not sales people to start with, to get to the 10m Euro mark.