S10E02: Using culture to scale a 'unicorn', with Matthew Scullion (CEO, Matillion)
October 18, 2022
"On day 1 assume you're building a consequential business and act accordingly."
We're continuing this season looking at the insights from some of the world's fastest-growing businesses. In this episode Richard speaks with Matthew Scullion, who founded data transformation firm Matillion in 2011, and has grown it to unicorn status, hitting #251 in the FT1000 list of Europe's fastest growing companies. Along the way, Matthew also won the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year award.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
- The importance of turning raw data into a refined asset that can bring value to your business.
- The pivot that turned the business from successful small business to hyper-growth tech company.
- Matthew's playbook to take a business from launch to a billion-dollar valuation, and the major transitions to be navigated.
- How the list of values that Matthew wrote down on day 1 were 'operationalised' to truly help the business to scale successfully.
Resources/sources mentioned:
- Website: Mattilion
- LinkedIn: Matthew Scullion
- The Impact Multiplier CEO Podcast
- Find out about Richard's new book, Making Time For Strategy
For full show notes, head to https://xquadrant.com/matthew-scullion