VENTURE VISIONARIES

Episode 3

Shaking Things Up:

A Study in Industry Transformation with
Arielle Kilroy, CEO Dado

In this episode, we hang with Arielle Kilroy, CEO of Dado. Dado is an employee retention and engagement platform that works by making it easy for HR Ops teams to easily and simply create delightful employee experiences. By automatating the step-by-step movement of employees through custom designed experiences, Dado at once drastically reduces the manual work of the HR team, saving time and money, and is proven to make new hires productive faster and boost employee engagement.

Arielle shares her entreprenurial journey creating new product categories across industries, from entertainment to advocacy, and now HR tech. She walks through the challenges and opportunities in creating a new category, including how to educate a market on what is possible. She presents a proven blue print for new product development and emphasizes the importance of balancing passion for innovation with respecting the organization’s norms and wisdom. She reflects on the big differences between the European and American startup scenes, and what each can learn from the other.

Tune in to learn what it looks like to build a buisness that shakes an industry up.

Episode
Highlights

Challenges of Category Creation:

Learn how to leverage strategic process updates to make sure you keep investors in the loop and create the sense of product advancement, while not rushing the data collection and discovery processes.

Transferring Skills Across Disparate Fields:

Arielle shares the transferability of product skills across different industries, including entertainment, advocacy, and HR tech and how the foundation of understanding customer needs remains the same.

Future Ofd Work And Technology:

We discuss the future of work and technology, emphasizing the importance of focusing on the problem to solve rather than just implementing new technology. Arielle predicts revolutionary changes in the workplace in the next 20 years, including the role of data, workforce tooling, and the death of the HRIS and role sharing.

Managing investors through discovery:

We discuss the challenges of creating a new category of software and disrupting old industries through innovation, and how involving the right people in the problem-solving process to drive alignment and uncover challenges might slow down discover but rapidly accelerates sale and deployment.

Comparison of European and American Startup Scenes:

Arielle compares the European and American startup scenes from a work-life balance, cost of talent and entreprenurial culture perspective.

Stories Segment

Venture Visionaries goes
beyond the boardroom,
giving a voice to the heart
of every organization –

its employees. In our Spoken Stories segment,
Dado HR employees share when they each realized
they had “it” at Dado.

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