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Is GE the Best Training Ground for People Leaders in Tech? (opens the original)
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Before we get into the piece, we have an announcement.The Big Search is welcoming Basma Geigenmueller as Partner to lead our People Practice. She brings nearly 20 years of experience across People & Culture, leadership, and organisational development. She’s now pairing that with our search expertise to help founders, CEOs and CPOs find the People leaders who can build the organisations of the future.We marked the occasion by working on a
The Commercial Leadership Team Behind Doctolib's €500M ARR (opens the original)
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Doctolib is one of those companies that have been around for a while. Founded in 2013, the company now has 90M patients booking doctor appointments on its free platform and 500K practitioners paying for its management tools.It operates across three major markets (France, Germany, and Italy) and is expanding through acquisitions (Benelux with Siilo and the UK with Medicus Health). ARR reached €422M in 2025, and, at its current growth pace, Doctolib is targeting €500M in 2026.We wanted to understa
How Nscale Became One of the Best European (and Global) Neoclouds from a Talent Perspective (opens the original)
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Let’s start with the basics. Nscale is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that builds and operates next-generation GPU cloud platforms. (World Economic Forum’s definition)Its founder, Josh Payne, has quite an interesting story. He mined coal, worked on construction sites, and then mined bitcoin. Two years ago, he founded Nscale. It’s now one of the most valued AI companies in the UK, and Payne was recently named one of the 100 m
European Cloud Sovereignty Through a German Lens (opens the original)
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European sovereign cloud has become a strategic priority. Geopolitics and tightening data regulation, particularly across the public sector and critical infrastructure, are forcing the question of who controls European data infrastructures and who can guarantee their security. Every European country needs to decide between building cloud infrastructure locally or handing it to a hyperscaler1.Germany is a good example of how that choice plays out. The market is traditional, and a large share of c
How the CEO of the World’s Leading Fibre Optic Sensing Company Approaches Talent & Hiring (opens the original)
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For this episode, we sat down with Paul Heiden, CEO of Optics11.Optics11 builds fibre optic sensing technology for early warning systems. The company operates out of the Netherlands, and its mission is to protect sea lanes, offshore infrastructure, and energy supply from disruption before it happens.Paul was Chief Product Officer at Bynder, later acquired by THL, and held the same role at Ultimaker, where he helped the company become a leader in 3D printing. Before that, he founded B
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