How a small Danish startup took on the wine industry and scaled to 50M users worldwide | Heini Zachariassen

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Global Class Podcast

Aaron McDaniel and Klaus Wehage

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Get the inside stories of how the world’s fastest growing companies scale globally and the unique career journeys of the internationally-minded business leaders who run these Global Class companies. International is the new agile and best-in-class companies are adapting to build products, operational models and company cultures that resonate with a worldwide audience. The Global Class Podcast explores best practices for effective international expansion and offers practical advice for anyone who aspires to build global companies and careers in international business.

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How a small Danish startup took on the wine industry and scaled to 50M users worldwide | Heini Zachariassen | Founder & Fmr CEO, Vivino

Global Class Podcast

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3 years ago

How a small Danish startup took on the wine industry and scaled to 50M users worldwide | Heini Zachariassen | Founder & Fmr CEO, Vivino

In this episode, we are excited to welcome Heini Zachariassen, Founder and Former CEO of Vivino, the world's largest wine app. Prior, Heini was the CEO of BullGuard, and a board member of NORRIQ and Faroese Telecom. He is also the founder and host of Raw Startup.

In our conversation, Heini talks about a number of topics including the importance of hiring a strong team and how the roles and expertise of the team need to change as an organization grows in new markets, building a decentralized organization, the tradeoffs of localization in markets and when to make changes to your business model and when not to, the future of global business, as well as the benefits of coming from a small country.

This episode is sponsored by our partner, ZEDRA. Learn more about how the ZEDRA team can support you in expanding to new markets at https://www.zedra.com

Find our entire podcast episode library at https://www.globalclassbook.com/podcast and learn more about our forthcoming book on global business growth at https://www.globalclassbook.com/

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