Veronica Pohls is the VP of People at Mercury, the fintech and digital banking company that hit unicorn status with a $1.6B valuation in 2021. Veronica joined Mercury in 2019 as the 12th employee and helped them scale to 600+ folks across multiple countries. Prior to joining Mercury, she led product recruiting at Dropbox
Mercury prides itself on being a place that hires incredibly high potential people, gives them room to grow, and invests in developing leadership skills internally. In this session, Veronica will cover:
- How to create opportunities to uplevel your leaders
- Signs that upleveling is not the right option and how to handle it
- The law of startup physics - what it means when humans grow linearly and companies grow exponentially
