TechChill 2019: Adyen’s journey from start-up to IPO

Jussi Lindberg, SVP Business Development Northern Europe at Adyen.
A start-up goes through stages, until one day, it might not be a start-up anymore. Growth constantly brings new challenges. How do you decide where to take your business? What sets a good partnership apart from a bad one? And how do you maintain your culture when your employee numbers double?
Adyen was founded in 2006. In 2018, it had one of the biggest IPO:s in Europe. In this session, Jussi shares the lessons they’ve learned along the way of how to build an organisation and a product with scalability at the heart of it.
Covered:
Our experiences from the journey
How to maintain culture during change
Why scale is what matters most

TechChill 2019 took place on February 21-22, in Riga, Latvia. The conference brought together more than 2000 attendees from the Baltic, Nordic, CEE and Central European startup scene: the fastest growing startups, most innovative corporations, international investors and media, and talented tech enthusiasts.
The main goal of the event is to create business opportunities by matchmaking & creating informal networking opportunities for carefully curated audiences.

Chill with us:

[nikhilsuri]

In love with the vision of the company

[TheCriticalChris]

Adyen leadership & executives are cultural conservatives; with their power to dictate terms with one of their clients, ebay, they’ve twisted the arms of ebay sellers who had listed items depicting any kind of nudity whatsoever. None of that stuff is allowed to be sold on ebay any more, including R rated movies intended for adult audiences that might depict nudity. Transactions around those products aren’t any more “high risk” than selling used cell phones or delicate electronics. That’s a red herring argument.