Build The Future: Building a Startup Inside a Scaleup

Stan, a Product Director at Aiven, draws on experience founding and fundraising for startups, as well as work in programming, marketing, PR, and events, to lead a newly created product area with a startup-style mindset. Recruited to build a team and product largely from scratch, he views his role as acting like the CEO of a small startup within a larger company, emphasizing autonomy, expert ownership, curiosity, and rapid decision-making. He joined Aiven after candid conversations with its leadership convinced him that its transparent culture and focus on difficult technical challenges aligned with his background and ambitions. While he values the scale and resources of Aiven, he also notes the adjustment required in navigating more process and managing limited context compared with the close-knit startups where he previously knew every employee.

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