Onboard - Make the most of your Startup Board

This is the podcast for every founder, startup CEO, investor, and board member who believes that boards are a powerful resource for a company's success. Here, you'll discover what works and what doesn't, how others approach their board meetings, and what makes a good board. Hosted by Michael Schuster, Founder of Boardroom, we look into different angles of good boards, talk to founders, investors and experts in the field. If you want to take your board of directors to the next level you can find us at http://www.boardroom.team

Onboard - Make the most of your Startup Board is a business podcast hosted by Boardroom, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Boardroom hosts Onboard - Make the most of your Startup Board, a business show with 10 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

  Nicole Quinn - What's the most important question to ask?

  Oct 2, 202529 minS1

  <p>Nicole Quinn is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Known as the “brand whisperer,” she’s backed iconic consumer companies like Goop, Calm, and Lady Gaga’s Haus Labs. I met Nicole a long time ago at a retreat for VCs organized by Jerry Colonna, where we go talking about the daily life of a VC in depth.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode we talk about her experience serving on boards of high performing consumer companies, how she looks at the role of a board member, what she did to level up her skills and what makes co...

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  Episode #9

  Chris Morton - What a good board actually looks like

  Sep 11, 202541 minS1

  <p>Chris Morton is the founder of Lyst, sat on the board of Depop and started Starboard, with the mission to make Startup Boards live up to their potential. </p><p><br></p><p>In this conversation we go into his personal story, look at what makes a good board, how the experience as a founder is different from the one of a board member and, most importantly, talk about how founders and investors see rate their boards. </p><p><br></p><p>https://www.starbrd.com/</p>

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  Episode #8

  Anna Brandt - Succession isn't about replacing someone

  May 22, 202555 minS1

  <p>Talking to Anna Brandt from Invested about Startup Management Teams, Boards and what makes or breaks a good collaboration between the two was really insightful. She is an expert in working with Boards and Founders on one of the toughest questions that both face:when is it the right time to work on succession and how do you do it successfully? </p><p><br /></p><p>Anna has worked with many of the most successful European Scale-Ups like N26, Zalando or TomTom and consulted even more on their effectiveness and important transitions. Together with Noor van Boven she runs...

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  Episode #7

  Paul Gambill - 90 Seconds That Changed My Company’s Fate

  Apr 16, 202541 minS1

  <p>Paul Gambill was the CEO of Nori, a tokenized Carbon Removal Marketplace. In this episode he tells the story of how a conversation that could - and probably did - happen in any Board, sealed the fate of his company. We unpack Paul's learnings, how he would structure a Board in the future and why building Category Defining Companies requires a different governance. </p><p><br /></p><p>I invited Paul because I read his 5 part series on better Board Governance and found it a great summary of how to make more of your board. You can find it...

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  Episode #6

  Louis Chatriot - The Board Needed to Level Up

  Mar 20, 202553 minS1

  <p>Louis Chatriot is the CEO of Alma, a French Buy Now Pay Later company. When I met Louis at a conference it was impressive how he looked at governance in his company. He had spent more time thinking about his board and how to make it effective than many other CEOs. And he seemed to be a very grown-up CEO, looking at his role without ego and with a lot of clarity.</p> <p><br></p> <p>In this episode, we dive deeper into the relationship between CEO and board, why he thinks you should be smart and lazy, an...

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