How to scale early by saying no: Dan Cray, PHIZZ

About this episode

Dan Cray discusses how to scale PHIZZ while maintaining focus and navigating new opportunities.

In this episode Dan Cray, founder & CEO of PHIZZ, talks about how to scale without losing your North Star, stay focussed and go global. After raising capital, PHIZZ had the opportunity to go broad early. New markets, new use cases and major international interest created momentum - but also complexity. Dan shares how chasing too many opportunities diluted focus, and why returning to a laser focus became the foundation for faster and more sustainable growth. This episode is a lesson in tim...

People in this episode

Host: Juliet Fallowfield

Guest: Dan Cray

Topics covered

• scaling
• focus
• entrepreneurship
• growth
• international markets

Keywords

• scaling
• entrepreneurship
• PHIZZ
• growth
• focus
• international markets
• capital

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PHIZZ

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