How To Align Your Tech Strategy & Product Goals - Seb Poole (Co-Founder Frankie Health)

Today we’re in conversation with Seb Poole, the co-founder of med-tech startup Frankie Health, a Giant in residence for Blackbird and the former CPO/CTO for Hulii. Seb brings a wealth of experience on the operations and tech side of growing tech startups. Lucky for us, he’s sharing them through practical tips and tools and some straightforward advice. If you’re a CTO, engineer or someone interested in starting a tech startup, this episode is for you.Struggling to hire tech talent? We’ve got a long-term solution: https://picwa.io/hireTimestamps:00:00 - Welcome to The Way Forward00:47 - Intro to today’s episode1:30 - Seb’s first foray into the startup space with Grana 2:50 - Mistakes and lessons learnt at Grana 3:42 - How do you differentiate startups at Seed vs Series A?4:38 - What growing from 0 to 20 engineers looks like 6:37 - How smaller teams can replicate a QA process 9:40 - Tidying up multiple stacks and frameworks across teams10:43 - Journey with Frankie Health - Seb’s why, discovering product-market fit13:20 - Indicators of product-market fit14:45 - How do you make your product commercially viable? 17:19 - Using tech to beat traditional business models20:39 - What tech founders should focus on when building an MVP22:50 - Is UI important? 24:28 - How technical founders can do sales25:30  - Seb’s sales messaging advice 26:53  - Where there’s chaos there’s opportunity28:45 - Seb’s advice for taking care of your mental health30:42 - How startups founders can ask for help32:40 - Seb’s hopes for Australia’s startup space Learn how to outperform traditional recruitment agencies at PICWA.io