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How To Align Your Tech Strategy & Product Goals - Seb Poole (Co-Founder Frankie Health)

How To Align Your Tech Strategy & Product Goals - Seb Poole (Co-Founder Frankie Health)

Update: 2022-02-21
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Today we’re in conversation with Seb Poole, the co-founder of med-tech startup Frankie Health, a Giant in residence for Blackbird and the former CPO/CTO for Hulii. 

Seb brings a wealth of experience on the operations and tech side of growing tech startups. Lucky for us, he’s sharing them through practical tips and tools and some straightforward advice. If you’re a CTO, engineer or someone interested in starting a tech startup, this episode is for you.

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Timestamps:

  • 00:00 - Welcome to The Way Forward
  • 00:47 - Intro to today’s episode
  • 1:30 - Seb’s first foray into the startup space with Grana 
  • 2:50 - Mistakes and lessons learnt at Grana 
  • 3:42 - How do you differentiate startups at Seed vs Series A?
  • 4:38 - What growing from 0 to 20 engineers looks like 
  • 6:37 - How smaller teams can replicate a QA process 
  • 9:40 - Tidying up multiple stacks and frameworks across teams
  • 10:43 - Journey with Frankie Health - Seb’s why, discovering product-market fit
  • 13:20 - Indicators of product-market fit
  • 14:45 - How do you make your product commercially viable? 
  • 17:19 - Using tech to beat traditional business models
  • 20:39 - What tech founders should focus on when building an MVP
  • 22:50 - Is UI important? 
  • 24:28 - How technical founders can do sales
  • 25:30   - Seb’s sales messaging advice 
  • 26:53   - Where there’s chaos there’s opportunity
  • 28:45 - Seb’s advice for taking care of your mental health
  • 30:42 - How startups founders can ask for help
  • 32:40 - Seb’s hopes for Australia’s startup space 


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How To Align Your Tech Strategy & Product Goals - Seb Poole (Co-Founder Frankie Health)

How To Align Your Tech Strategy & Product Goals - Seb Poole (Co-Founder Frankie Health)