On the latest episode of Boast’s What The Tech podcast, we welcome onto the show Developa Founder Beth Nevins.
Developa is a people and talent consultancy with deep expertise and experience operating in and supporting startups backed by Tiger Global, Sequoia, Target Global, Balderton, and Atomico. As experts in People & Talent, Beth and her team work as advisors, coaches, and consultants to help startups accelerate and realize their vision.
Outside of Developa, Beth has extensive experience at tech-driven startups helping steer people ops and strategy at business from seed stage to commercial growth, international expansion, and following investment rounds.
In this interview, we pick Beth’s brain on what skills and strategies founders can leverage as they navigate the various stages of startup life (and eventually march toward the CEO mantle), how teams should build their C-Suite in the first place, and common challenges facing startups when it comes to People and Talent in 2024.
Why prioritization is key to CEO success and growth
Decision making is one of the key life skills that any founder has to hone to achieve scale and growth in today’s innovation ecosystem.
As Beth Nevins of Developa explains, even the strategy behind planning out your day and your week—let alone your quarter or year—calls for the ability to prioritize and delegate.
Keeping it simple—just identifying those two things that require immediate focus—and building a team around you that you can trust to chip away at the lower-rung priorities will help minimize frustration as executive teams build better SaaS products.
The mindset shift from founder to CEO as businesses achieve growth
Early on, a founder is focused on understanding their market and building solutions to solve problems that they can build a business model around.
As founders evolve into the CEO of a business, they need to start looking inward and evaluating their own skill sets—and bringing in teams that can help fill in the blanks when it comes to achieving scalability and long-term growth.
It’s a significant mindset shift, and it warrants several conversations among the teams that have helped build a company—including the investors funding operations as the business evolves.
Stream the full interview with Beth on Boast’s YouTube feed here.
