54 - Connecting founders to the right leaders to help start-ups and scale-ups win

Tom and Lucas discuss the importance of leadership hires to help start-ups and scale-ups win.  Startups often struggle with slow or inaccurate executive search campaigns that can take 120 days to close plus on average in Europe another 90 days to get the person in a seat, at times with the wrong profile and with a sizeable fee (around 30% of a competitive package) being paid out to external recruiters.  Introed helps solve this problem by providing start-up founders with a self-serve toolkit that emphasizes the importance of understanding key factors when selecting potential operators.  the failure rate in the tech start-up industry has remained consistently high around 85% for the past 20 years, however, serial entrepreneurs are 67% more likely to succeed vs. first-time founders.  Nailing the fundamental steps from conception to success is key, and patterns exist regardless of the industry or business size - this is where leadership comes in and is so important.

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About Thomas Pyle

Tom spent 12 years working side by side with founders and executives, scaling up some of Europe's most exciting and successful start-up and scale-up organisations from Badoo/Bumble in social media and dating to bunq in neo-banking. Tom is now the co-founder of Introed, with a simple mission, "help more start-up and scale-up founders win". Giving them access to the right leadership talent, in the right form at the right moment. Introed is breaking the status quo of leadership and executive search in early-stage companies.