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From Financing to Scaling: What Really Matters to CFOs in High-Growth Companies

From Financing to Scaling: What Really Matters to CFOs in High-Growth Companies

In this episode, Remo Gerber (SkyCell) and Fabienne Doerig (CFO expert and consultant) discuss the challenges and strategies involved in building and

10 February 2026

AI Rollups: How Legacy Industries Are Turning AI Into Million-Dollar Businesses

AI Rollups: How Legacy Industries Are Turning AI Into Million-Dollar Businesses

In this episode, Cyrus Hessabi from Shore Capital Partners discusses the intersection of AI, traditional services, and roll-up strategies. He shares i

16 December 2025

Spotting Trends in AI, Robotics, and Space – Finn Murphy's Investment Playbook as Solo GP at Nebular

Spotting Trends in AI, Robotics, and Space – Finn Murphy's Investment Playbook as Solo GP at Nebular

In this episode of Unicorn Bakery, Mike Mahlkow sits down with Finn Murphy, General Partner at Nebular, to discuss how Finn identifies emerging trends

13 June 2025

How Swan Built a €20 Billion Banking-as-a-Service Platform – Insights from CEO Nicolas Benady

How Swan Built a €20 Billion Banking-as-a-Service Platform – Insights from CEO Nicolas Benady

In this episode of Unicorn Bakery, Nicolas Benady, co-founder and CEO of Swan, shares the journey of building one of Europe’s leading Banking-as-a-Ser

30 May 2025

Nir Eyal: How to Build Products People Love Without Losing Focus

Nir Eyal: How to Build Products People Love Without Losing Focus

In this episode of Unicorn Bakery, Nir Eyal, bestselling author of "Hooked" and "Indistractable", joins Fabian Tausch to discuss how to design habit-f

25 April 2025

Cloudflare Growth Playbook Revealed: How Cloudflare Scaled to $1 Billion ARR

Cloudflare Growth Playbook Revealed: How Cloudflare Scaled to $1 Billion ARR

Chris Merritt, former CRO of Cloudflare, shares how the company scaled from single-digit millions to $1 billion in ARR and built a foundation for long

11 April 2025

How Clay Scaled from 0 to $30M ARR in 2 Years with Product-Led Growth - with Co-Founder & CEO Kareem Amin

How Clay Scaled from 0 to $30M ARR in 2 Years with Product-Led Growth - with Co-Founder & CEO Kareem Amin

Clay is one of THE success stories of the last years. But in early 2022, after 5 years of building, Clay did close to 0 in revenue. Two years later, C

1 April 2025

Vanta CRO on building a $100M+ ARR Revenue Engine – and how you can do, too | Predictable Sales Engine | Hiring Sales Talent | Selling to SMBs with Vanta CRO Stevie Case

Vanta CRO on building a $100M+ ARR Revenue Engine – and how you can do, too | Predictable Sales Engine | Hiring Sales Talent | Selling to SMBs with Vanta CRO Stevie Case

Stevie Case, CRO at Vanta, explains how the company surpassed $100 million in ARR in just five years by building a predictable and scalable revenue en

14 March 2025

How Strava Built a Global Fitness Community with 100M+ Users | Expansion to 196 Countries | Why Strava Never Intended to be a Venture Case

How Strava Built a Global Fitness Community with 100M+ Users | Expansion to 196 Countries | Why Strava Never Intended to be a Venture Case

w Strava started as a "virtual locker room" in 1995 and why it didn’t work The role of timing, technology, and social media in Strava’s eventual succ

7 March 2025

From Building Billion-Dollar Products to Running a Self-Funded Venture Firm - Hunter Walk, Homebrew

From Building Billion-Dollar Products to Running a Self-Funded Venture Firm - Hunter Walk, Homebrew

In this episode of Unicorn Bakery, Hunter Walk, co-founder of Homebrew, joins Fabian Tausch for an in-depth conversation about his journey from produc

6 March 2025