The Ramp: Navigating New Markets: Hiring, Culture, and Performance with Ardoq’s COO

In this episode of The Ramp, Tor sat down with Nick Peters, COO of Ardoq. As one of the world's leading vendors of cloud-native Enterprise Architecture software, Ardoq boasts a global customer base, top tier clients, and sustained growth over the past decade.
This episode gives you an under-the-hood look at how Ardoq navigated this growth journey, and how the team went from a Norwegian startup of 20 employees to an international powerhouse. More specifically, we get into:
How to use your network to hire in a new market (and land candidates to take you through your first proof points)
The importance of building your culture brick-by-brick to enable culture carriers and foster high performance.
The role of “culture carriers” when relocating existing employees into new markets.
How to spot and handle underperformance in a new market? How do you hold new hires accountable when you don’t have a benchmark? How do you separate underperformance from general market failures?
The role of mid-management’s ability to understand and maintain a high hiring bar.
Learnings from trying different operational models when your business functions are in different stages of maturity.
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