Tuesday, February 22: For this episode, I am thrilled to bring you my conversation with Courtney McColgan, a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO at Runa HR, one of the leading payroll software providers for SMBs in Spanish speaking Latin America. Prior to starting Runa, Courtney was the CMO of Cabify, a taxi application for Latin America, where she grew the company from 3 cities and $20M valuation to 130 cities across 12 countries and a $1.5B valuation. Previously, she also worked in venture capital and finance at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Morgenthaler and Morgan Stanley.
In today's episode we will learn:
1) What were the key leadership decisions Courtney had to make to navigate Runa HR through covid-19 crisis?
2) What are the critical elements of Runa's corporate culture?
3) How to think about fundraising? Does venture capital as a source of capital work for all kind of founders? And what was Courtney's rationale behind taking venture capital money?
4) What are the most important things founders have to get right to build scalable organizations?
5) What are the unique challenges founders face while building business in Latin America?
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