Ep.117 – How To Focus For Global Scale

Back in 2004, you would be at the cutting edge of mobile phone coolness if you were rocking a Motorola RAZR or a Nokia 7610. While these might hold some retro value today, they were basic as far as today’s mobile phone tech benchmarks might go. And while iPhone and Android were still a few years off and people weren’t really doing much other than make calls, text, or play snake with them, one Kiwi visionary saw the future enterprise potential that mobile phones would bring.

So it was that in 2004, Denis O’Shea, founded Mobile Mentor to unlock the massive potential. Launched as a mentoring service to enable people to use their device as a personal productivity tool, the company soon went global, growing to 250 employees and 10,000 monthly customers. Denis joins us from Mobile Mentor’s US HQ in Nashville to share with us his mobile journey and how the secret of scale might be to think small first.

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