ABOUT THIS EPISODE
David Nothacker is co-founder of Europe’s leading digital freight-forwarder platform, Sennder. The Berlin-based unicorn has recently raised an additional $80 million in funding at over $1 billion in valuation and will use this funding to expand into new regions. David started Sennder 1.0 as an MBA graduate but failed, as his co-founder left him five minutes after signing the investors term sheet. After overcoming this difficulty and setting a clear vision with new co-founders, he managed to turn the company into a unicorn with a team of 800 employees. If you want to find out more about how to excel in #winnertakesitall markets, whether it is a good idea to exit a built-up venture and how to build effective teams, then listen to the full episode!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-nothacker
https://www.sennder.com
0:00 Introduction
1:12 What is sennder?
2:44 All about the numbers: employees, revenue expectations, valuation of sennder
4:06 How David started sennder
7:40 What is harder to get as a platform business - demand or supply?
11:02 How to find co-founders and how working together works best
16:04 What David thinks about having luck as an entrepreneur and his exit strategy
20:19 Lessons learned on how to grow faster than the competition
23:20 How to onboard talent in a fast growing company (from 200 to 800 employees in one year!)
26:14 Organizing digital teams and sharing the culture
28:31 Quick-fire round: favorite activity | method to stay productive | personal hero
32:14 Outro
