Pontus Noren pioneered the “cloud-native” approach as CEO at Cloudreach, the scaleup he founded in 2009 – just after Lehman Brothers collapsed – & led to an exit in 2017.

By the time Blackstone acquired the business, Cloudreach was a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, ranked top 25 in The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech 100, & ranked by the FT as one of Europe’s fastest growing companies

Pontus is now the Chair of Tyk – an opensource API platform startup – & an advisor to several tech startups & scaleups 

We explored:

• The huge opportunity for startups to sell to large companies who need to shake everything up due to the pandemic
• The mantra:  “What you don’t do is as important as what you do do!”
• The learning: “I’ve often recruited people too fast but I’ve never fired someone too fast!”
• The devastating consequences of senior mis-hires
• To avoid panic hires: how to plan your organisational design based on your expectations of future market opportunities & challenges 

For more insights into Tyk head over to https://tyk.io