This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Hanno Renner, co-founder and CEO of Personio, a number one European all-in-one HR software program platform constructed for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Based in 2105 in Munich, Personio helps corporations throughout the complete worker lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to payroll, efficiency, and other people analytics. Right this moment, the corporate serves greater than one million workers throughout Europe and has raised a complete of $724 million to help its long-term progress and enlargement.
Within the interview, Hanno displays on Personio’s decade-long journey, together with the early days when the corporate was near operating out of money, and what essentially adjustments when a startup strikes from survival mode into scale-up territory. We focus on scaling challenges, founder roles, and the proposed twenty eighth regime. The dialog additionally touches on management classes drawn from Hanno’s time as a yacht skipper, Personio’s broader societal ambitions via the Personio Basis, and far more!
Key Takeaways
- From near-zero money to multi-billion valuation: the least seen however hardest phases of Personio’s progress
- What breaks – and what surprisingly holds – when scaling from startup to European scaleup
- Personio’s evolving function on the centre of Europe’s HRTech ecosystem
- Why EU Inc and the twenty eighth regime are essential for Europe’s capacity to construct international tech champions
