Podcast appearances and mentions of natalie nagele

In 2009 Natalie Nagele and her husband, Chris, launched Postmark to help businesses deliver emails to their customers quickly. A decade in, Nagele had grown the company to around 40 employees, which was when she began feeling burned out. The pull to explore new interests was the catalyst to accepting a life-changing acquisition offer from Active Campaign in 2022. In this episode, you'll learn how to: Develop passionate employees that care about your company.  Create raving fans that refer their friends.  Decide when it's time to sell.  Distinguish between serious burnout and normal fatigue.  Create a list of demands for an acquirer when selling your business.  Think in decades when making big decisions.  Establish a positive relationship with your acquirer.

David Allen learned of Natalie Nagele through Adam Grant, and promptly scheduled this fascinating interview with her. Natalie and her husband Chris co-founded a software company called Wildbit. Their tagline is, "We're more than a company. We're a family." They have fun company retreats, a four-day work week, and smooth, collaborative teamwork among their globally distributed group. How do they do it? Start with every new employee receiving a copy of Getting Things Done. Listen to find out Natalie's advice on productivity, sharing GTD with coworkers and family, and more. Wildbit's company site: https://wildbit.com/ And her Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/natalienagele

Here's the recap...In today's episode, I chatted with Natalie Nagele, an OG of remote-work. Natalie is the CEO & Co-founder @ Wildbit. We spoke about how companies should be thinking about engaging their in-office vs remote employees. Whether to do hybrid events where some people are in person and others are virtual, or separating engagement opportunities by cohort, or doing virtual only. We also spoke about different types of virtual team fun you can implement and how often you should do so. Finally, we discussed how proximity bias may impact promotions & career trajectory for hybrid teams. For a full transcript click here. For more information about the show click here. We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts of the show - feedback@leadingfromafar.com

What does the future of work look like? What would happen if work was less about businesses and what they need to grow, and more about people and what we need to live meaningful lives? And what would happen in a world where we didn't actually need to work? This episode dives into the world of people-first business and the post-work economy with Wildbit co-founder Natalie Nagele, looking at what happens when people come before profits, and purpose means more than productivity. This podcast is produced by Buffer, an affordable and intuitive social media marketing software used by over 160,000 small businesses to build their brand on social media.

In this episode, Timi and A.J. discuss why you should build an intention-led business. They talk about the experiences and lessons learned from several other entrepreneurs in building mission-led ventures and the challenges that one might face. Tune in to learn about starting and scaling a business that not only helps you nurture a better team but also allows you to attract clients you are excited to serve. On today's episode:  Episode Overview: intention setting (between woo-woo and practicality). - 0:40 Successful entrepreneurs who have built intention-led businesses. - 03:30 What does it mean to build an intention-led business? - 06:19 How feeling impactful can drive your business (and vice versa). - 10:08 How you can build a business that is meaningful to you. - 14:35 Do you need experience with intention setting to build an intention-led business? - 15:43 How do you know when is the right time to reset the path your business is on? - 17:35 How building an intention-led business is very personal. - 23:03  Building an intention-led business DESPITE being extremely busy. - 24:39 Don't just SAY what your business intentions are, you must DO this.  - 28:08  Don't copy other entrepreneurs, steal from them (explained). - 32:26 Why you should center your business intentions around your team. - 34:20  What type of client will your business intentions attract? - 42:11 Our research on how to transition from being a 7 figure to 8 figure entrepreneur. - 46:16 Key Takeaways:  To start building an intention-led business, ask yourself what it is you genuinely feel passionate about? What problem would you like to fix? Then think about how you can use your business to contribute to fixing that problem.  Finding the right type of customers and the right team is integral to building an intention-led business.  You don't need to have experience with intention setting, all you need to have is the drive to create a business that is meaningful to you.  Having an intention-led business is building a business that people you work with and for will get more value from over the long-term than if you only focused on profit generation. Every company goes on its unique path and thus each company has different looking inflexion points. These crossroads can be good moments to reflect on the state of your business and decide on whether it's a good idea to reset the path your business is on.  Building an intention-led business alters the very foundations your business is built upon.  Don't just settle with saying what your intentions are for your business. Instead, you have to elaborately describe what that intention means and how it can realistically and practically be manifested within your business. You have to make your intentions structurally part of your business.  Your team comes before your client. Without a happy team, you will be unable to serve your clients well. This is what the thought process in building an intention-led business looks like:[14:56] “If I want to do this, and I know I can provide the value that I believe is necessary for this part of the marketplace that I want to enter, I can do it the way that I think it worthwhile”What intentions lead your business? Tell us in the comments, and don't forget to say hello if you would like to share your entrepreneurship story on our podcast. Entrepreneurs on Our Show Who Built Intention-Led Businesses: Hack Business Growth By Building a Product You Would Use with Jeff Epstein, Onboard.ioBuilding a People-First Company with Natalie Nagele, WildbitWhat Does the Future of Work Look Like with Stephanie Nadi OlsonConnect with A.J.Lawrence: Website: ajlawrence.com Email: aj@b8fpodcast.com  Instagram: @ajlawrence LinkedIn: A.J. Lawrence Twitter: @ajlawrence Medium: @a.j.lawrence Follow Beyond 8 Figures: Website:  Beyond8Figures.com Twitter:  @beyond8figures  Facebook: Beyond 8 Figures Instagram:@b8fpodcast Email: team@b8fpodcast.com

Natalie Nagele, CEO of Wilbit, joins us to discuss building a successful people-first company with a 3o hour workweek. Speaking from her own experiences, as a leading people-first employer, we talk about how you can measure your success as an entrepreneur, how to stay guided by your purpose throughout your entrepreneurial journey, and what it takes to stay committed to your business.  Three things you will learn from this episode:  Why you should think of your business as a tool rather than an end in itself. Whether you should pay yourself as a founder or reinvest to build towards a great exit. How to avoid burnout by setting the optimum pace for the growth of your business.   About our Guest: Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit. Her priority is creating a happy and positive work culture at Wildbit and the world. This stems from her core belief that businesses are tools designed to create a better world for people everywhere.On today's episode:  Measuring your entrepreneurial journey in decades. - 03:10 How slow growth changed our entrepreneurial vision. - 06:43 Should you service yourself or your business? (the beginning of a people-first philosophy) -09:48 You don't have to choose between building a lifestyle business or a unicorn business. - 10:16 How important is fundraising to your success as an entrepreneur? (the answer may surprise you). - 12:55 How do you know if your business is moving at the right pace? - 16:01 The cost of doing more than you planned for in your business. - 22:34  A good question to ask yourself instead of comparing yourself to others. -  26:04 Don't copy, steal: entrepreneurship vs. being a copycat. - 26:52  Should founders pay themselves, or should you reinvest everything in your business? - 29:03 Living your best life BEFORE you sell your business. - 30:03 The trouble with the concept of the entrepreneurial legacy. - 32:22  Check out these companies with People First Jobs. - 36:04 Lesson #1: Using moments of tension as opportunities. - 39:25  Lesson #2: Pay yourself well. - 41:32  Lesson #3: How you impact who you interact with. - 42:49 Key Takeaways:  Entrepreneurs should look at and evaluate their lives in decades because it takes a decade to build and scale.  Building your business outside trend bubbles can make you stand out and not stick to the trends. When your business plateaus, it is crucial to reevaluate what you are doing and why you are doing it. It is an excellent opportunity to evaluate what your long-term goals are.  It is becoming much easier to start a business and gain traction, especially in terms of cost.  Entrepreneurship is not about fundraising. It is about building value for customers and finding ways to do that in which you are making more than you spend. Frequent change in your business makes you lose out on so much momentum. You must set priorities and stick to them instead of measuring yourself against others.  Hero worship is ultimately going to fail you. You are better off measuring against yourself than you measure yourself against others.  As an entrepreneur, you have to keep assessing how your company fits within who you are and what your goals are in life.  Paying yourself as a founder secures your commitment to building a meaningful business. It ensures that you would not leave your business behind for ‘the next big thing.'  Paying yourself well is the best way to keep yourself engaged in your business.  Building a people-first company while providing a good life to your family: [31:27] “I tell the team this all the time: if this business gets harder, and I make less money, it does not make sense. Which it doesn't, like why would I do that? And that's Ok. But I'm not torturing my team, and I do that while simultaneously providing 30 hour work weeks. I'm not embarrassed to say that out loud because I believe you can equally do both things: you can build a people-first company while also providing wealth for your family.”  How do you think building a people-first company would improve your life balance as an entrepreneur? Tell us in the comments, and don't forget to say hello if you would like to share your entrepreneurship story on our podcast. Connect with Natalie Nagele: LinkedIn: @natalie-nagele Twitter: @natalienagele People First Jobs: https://peoplefirstjobs.com/  Wildbit: https://wildbit.com/  Connect with A.J.Lawrence: Website: ajlawrence.com Email: aj@b8fpodcast.com  Instagram: @ajlawrence LinkedIn: A.J. Lawrence Twitter: @ajlawrence Medium: @a.j.lawrence Follow Beyond 8 Figures: Website:  Beyond8Figures.com Twitter:  @beyond8figures  Facebook: Beyond 8 Figures Instagram:@b8fpodcast Email: team@b8fpodcast.com

In this talk from Tugboat Institute Gathering of Teams 2021, Natalie Nagele, Co-founder and CEO of software development company Wildbit, shares an innovative idea that has transformed her Evergreen® company: We can actually work a lot less.

Just a few days into the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, Wildbit's Natalie Nagele and Balsamiq's Peldi spoke at BoS Europe Online about how even fully remote companies who have been doing asynchronized work for decades have had to change their ways of working when the pandemic hit. For more great talks and insights, sign up for the BoS newsletter at businessofsoftware.org/update --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/business-of-software/message

Natalie Nagele is the co-founder of Wildbit, the company behind Postmark, Beanstalk, People-First Jobs and more. Wildbit has just turned 20 years old, so Natalie knows exactly what it takes to grow and scale successful bootstrapped businesses. In this episode we talk about how to build a business you don't hate, how to find work that fulfils you, and what you can do to find deep work.

You can grow a profitable company while prioritizing people. Sometimes that means killing off a product.  At least that’s what Natalie Nagele, Co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, believes. And for the past 20 years of building products, this bet made early on remains true. Wildbit is behind popular products, like Beanstalk and Postmark.  In this conversation, Natalie shares how they decided to kill off a profitable product, why passion is the key to success, and how above all else, culture drives innovation.

Natalie Nagele came to the states in 1989 as a Jewish refugee from Russia. She watched her parents go from nothing and utilizing furniture from trash, to building big businesses and supporting their family. She met Chris, her husband when she was 18. And they have been working together ever since, as he is the co-founder of their business. They have 2 kids together, and love to travel - specifically to the Caribbean, since it is a quick flight from Philly (and of course, its warm). Despite that, she would love to live in Italy one day. Their company started off as a remote consulting company, but launched their first product in 2003 - and they were immediately hooked. In 2009, they stopped doing client work and focused solely on products. And haven't looked back in 20 years. This is the creation story of Wildbit. Sponsors Unidragon ( https://unidragon.com/ ) Wyld Gallery ( https://wyld.gallery/ ) Links * Website: https://wildbit.com/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-nagele-b9aa42/ Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ( https://ratethispodcast.com/codestory ) Amazing tools we use: * If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people - use Transistor.fm ( https://transistor.fm/?via=code-story ) * Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast ( https://squadcast.fm/?ref=noahlabhart ). * Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain ( https://clipgain.io/?utm_campaign=clipgain&utm_medium=episode&utm_source=codestory ) , sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-story/id1466861744 ) , Spotify ( https://open.spotify.com/show/0f5HGQ2EPd63H83gqAifXp ) , Pocket Casts ( https://pca.st/Z1k7 ) , Google Play ( https://play.google.com/music/listen?pcampaignid=MKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16&t=Code_Story&view=%2Fps%2FIcdmshauh7jgmkjmh6iu3wd4oya ) , Breaker ( https://www.breaker.audio/code-story ) , Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgjZsiUDp-oKY_ffHc5AUpQ ) , or the podcasting app of your choice. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This is the first episode released under the new name of the show, Make Things That Matter! If you're curious, listen to ep29 for more on the rebranding.For the transcript and full episode notes/resources, go to: https://bit.ly/3nwvyfXAnd if you have a moment, I’d love it if you could give me a little feedback via this SurveyMonkey link. (It only takes one minute.)Click here to directly email Andrew your questions, comments, and feedback! He reads everything that is sent in (click 'Allow' if you get a popup): connect@makethingsthatmatter.comYou can submit your own audio questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/andrewskotzkoIf you enjoy the podcast, please consider subscribing and leaving a rating/review. It really helps!

Wildbit’s team is behind Beanstalk, Postmark, and other brilliant software known for removing common pain points in developers’ processes. With 28 team members across five countries (15 cities) working on multi-million dollar products, Natalie’s proving that you can grow a profitable business while focusing on shorter work days, an enjoyable work-from-anywhere environment, and staying small. Links to learn more about Natalie Nagele:Wildbit Wildbit Twitter Wildbit LinkedIn Natalie’s Twitter Natalie’s LinkedIn Follow us:twitter.com/wistia Subscribe:wistia.com/series/talking-too-loud Love what you heard? Leave us a review!Relevant LinksIn an effort to help folks looking to find companies with a healthy approach to work, Natalie’s team launched People-First Jobs, which is a curated list of companies looking for motivated people with similar values. Take a look!

If you want to build a successful business, you have to be ready to work 24/7/365 to have a shot at success… or do you? Both Natalie Nagele and DHH bootstrapped their internet businesses to millions in revenue, yet they took different paths to get there, with DHH only putting in a small number of hours vs Natalie who ate, slept, and breathed her job as a founder in the early days. In this episode we discuss whether or not DHH's approach is truly repeatable for others trying to get their businesses off the ground, the limits to human productivity and happiness, and the role that society and hustle culture in shaping how we feel about our work as founders.

In today’s episode, we sit down with Natalie Nagale from Wildbit to discuss the importance of team retreats, how they use a people-first perspective to structure their offsite experiences, and the ways Wildbit is supporting workers in connecting with like-minded companies in other industries.

I want you to meet someone who I have huge respect for: Natalie Nagele. Not only has Natalie been working in the SaaS and software space since her late teens, but she’s been courageous enough to experiment with optimizing her team. …even if it means asking them to work less. She is the CEO of WildBit, a tech company with 3 big products: Beanstalk: Code revision and deployment software Postmark: Transactional email service Conveyor: Task management for software teams I had the pleasure of interviewing Natalie on the latest episode of the Escape Velocity Show, and you can tell that she truly loves her team. In fact, she loves them so much that she’s willing to try anything to make their lives better. She saw a boost in productivity by moving them to a 4-day work week, she onboards all her staff by giving them 2 books she swears by, and she’s experimented with many different productivity apps. Her team is largely remote but she’s managed to make that their strength, not a weakness. Listening to her experiences is like spying on a test lab training the perfect SaaS team. If you’ve ever wanted to build a deeply loyal remote team, then you’ll get a lot out of this interview, so check it out. I’m grateful for Natalie’s willingness to share her biggest lessons from 16 years in the tech industry. In this interview, she talks about: - Why “If you build it they will come” is a bad strategy - Learning how to pay yourself

This week, Spark is coming to you from five different locations across Toronto, none of which is the CBC building! Like many people all over the world this week, we're working from home. Remote work is something we've talked about a lot on Spark over the past decade, but we've never done anything like this! We recognize that many people aren't able to work remotely, and we'll be addressing that too. But for people who can—and should—be working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, we're going to explore the best ways to do this, using current technology. + Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a Philadelphia-based software company, whose employees have been working remotely for 20 years, and which recently switched to a four-day workweek. Natalie explains how this works for Wildbit, and what other managers can learn from her experience. + Shawn D. Long, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Communication at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, U.S. He's an expert in organizational communications, and he's studied how office politics plays out in virtual offices.

This week we have Natalie Nagele - CEO and Co-Founder of Wildbit. Natalie is striving to prove that you can grow your business whilst ensuring developers aren't spending time in the weeds of process, infrastructure, and communication. Their products and customers allow them to do the best work of their lives - design, code, and ship brilliant software, Recorded at Business of Software Conference USA 2017 in Boston, MA. To listen to more BoS Talks, go to https://businessofsoftware.org/videos. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/business-of-software/message

After years of fighting tooth and nail for it, the labor movement in America finally won the battle for the 40-hour work week. Workers were no longer expected to work day and night without fair compensation. It was a victory that changed the way we think about work, and the modern work week was born.  That was nearly 80 years ago, and since then there hasn’t been much of a discussion about whether or not, with the rise of next-generation technology, it’s still a valuable guide rail for the majority of workers. But, business leaders are beginning to look critically at whether the traditional work week is worth maintaining with all the new technology available to keep employees engaged, and the results have been satisfying. On this episode of Productivity Confidential, we talk to Natalie Nagele, cofounder of Wildbit, about her mission to institute a 32-hour work week in her company and why sometimes the best thing you can do for a company’s success is telling employees to stop working so hard.

On this week's episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we talk with Natalie Nagele, Co-founder and CEO of Wildbit about how she and her co-founder and husband, Chris Nagele have run the company for the past nearly 19 years and have created both an effective and calm environment. During those 19 years, Natalie and Chris have built a lot of products and have shut down many of them. The ones that have stood the test of time have often been SaaS. Currently the company maintains Postmark, Beanstalk and Conveyor. Wildbit currently employs 30 people who are spread between 6 countries. Natalie's main goal throughout all this time has been to keep the company a sane place to work. She has never taken VC funding and has never imposed high growth, or unsustainable goals for the company. At the start of the year, however, Natalie and Chris introduced The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to help the company become more effective and productive. So far the experience has been great and they are already seeing great results. It has made them far more effective and aligned, especially as they operate a four day work week. At SaaStock we also implemented EOS at the start of the year, so this is as much a rundown of how it works as it is an exchange of notes and advice on how to make it better. Listen on to hear: How Natalie has assured the company has been around for nearly 19 years How they rolled out EOS One area in which EOS has already had a massive impact in Wildbit Natalie is one of many diverse voices we will hear from at SaaStock in Dublin this October. While we will have plenty of stories of high growth and stellar metrics, we will also feature the other, equally as effective ways do SaaS - by growing slowly and sustainably. Joining her on 5 separate tracks will be 150 speakers representing a variety of company stages and verticals. Grab a ticket now at the best possible price.

Working 60, 70, 80+ hours in America has become the norm for too many teams. Yet it seems impossible to get everything done in only 40 hours. Not for the employees of Wildbit. This week’s guest shifted her organization to a 32-hour, 4-day work week. Over a year into it, they’re seeing more positive results than they could have imagined. Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, the company behind Postmark, Beanstalk and Conveyor. With 29 team members across 5 countries working on multi-million dollar products for developers, she’s proving that you can grow an extremely profitable business while focusing on shorter work days, an enjoyable work-from-anywhere environment, and staying small. Natalie and I talk about why her company moved to a 4 day, 32 hour work week. She shares how she introduced it and managed the transition, the surprising impact it had on the people and the company, and how you might translate this practice if you work in a larger organization. Read the related blog article: Make a 32-hour Work Week Work For Your Team Join the Modern Manager community (www.mamieks.com/join) to get Natalie’s overview of the 4-day work week which includes a description of their paid time off plan. Subscribe to my newsletter to get episodes, articles and mini-guides delivered to your inbox.   KEY TAKEAWAYS: We started with only working 40 hours per week and truly limiting our hours on weekends and evenings before moving to a 32 hour work week. Agree on a hypothesis about the impact or why you’re making the shift to a shorter work week e.g. We believe we can accomplish the same amount of work with greater focus and increase the quality of work by having more time to rejuvinate outside of work.  To make this work, you need to be extremely intentional about what work to do and how to do it. You need to change the mindset, processes, and priorities, not simply cut hours. Experiment with changing your communication methods. Cancel all standing meetings to see which ones you really need. Turn off Slack for 1 week or have everyone turn off all notifications to see how it enables people to focus better.  Position the shift as an experiment which you can measure. Check in on it weekly - how people are feeling, what might need to shift, etc. After 1 year of the 32 hour work week, Natalie’s team had increased the quality and quantity of their work! 4 days isn’t the answer for every team or every person. It could be 6 days of 5 hours of work per day.  For know

Working 60, 70, 80+ hours in America has become the norm for too many teams. Yet it seems impossible to get everything done in only 40 hours. Not for the employees of Wildbit. This week’s guest shifted her organization to a 32-hour, 4-day work week. Over a year into it, they’re seeing more positive results than they could have imagined. Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, the company behind Postmark, Beanstalk and Conveyor. With 29 team members across 5 countries working on multi-million dollar products for developers, she’s proving that you can grow an extremely profitable business while focusing on shorter work days, an enjoyable work-from-anywhere environment, and staying small. Natalie and I talk about why her company moved to a 4 day, 32 hour work week. She shares how she introduced it and managed the transition, the surprising impact it had on the people and the company, and how you might translate this practice if you work in a larger organization. Read the related blog article: Make a 32-hour Work Week Work For Your Team Join the Modern Manager community (www.mamieks.com/join) to get Natalie’s overview of the 4-day work week which includes a description of their paid time off plan. Subscribe to my newsletter to get episodes, articles and mini-guides delivered to your inbox.   KEY TAKEAWAYS: We started with only working 40 hours per week and truly limiting our hours on weekends and evenings before moving to a 32 hour work week. Agree on a hypothesis about the impact or why you’re making the shift to a shorter work week e.g. We believe we can accomplish the same amount of work with greater focus and increase the quality of work by having more time to rejuvinate outside of work.  To make this work, you need to be extremely intentional about what work to do and how to do it. You need to change the mindset, processes, and priorities, not simply cut hours. Experiment with changing your communication methods. Cancel all standing meetings to see which ones you really need. Turn off Slack for 1 week or have everyone turn off all notifications to see how it enables people to focus better.  Position the shift as an experiment which you can measure. Check in on it weekly - how people are feeling, what might need to shift, etc. After 1 year of the 32 hour work week, Natalie’s team had increased the quality and quantity of their work! 4 days isn’t the answer for every team or every person. It could be 6 days of 5 hours of work per day.  For knowledge workers, especially, it’s a managers job to help identify what a reasonable amount of high value work looks like so that we can move away from “hours in the office” as a sign of productivity. For larger corporations where you can’t change the workweek structure, look for opportunities to create flexibility in the work week by having each person deliver a specific set of tasks or value - if I get XYZ done, it’s been a solid week and you can go home early. KEEP UP WITH NATALIE Website: https://wildbit.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-nagele-b9aa42/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/natalienagele

Natalie is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, the 18-year old bootstrapped software company behind Beanstalk, Postmark, and Conveyor. With 30 employees, 100,000+ customers, and millions in revenue, Natalie’s focus at the company is on culture and team happiness.

Having previously developed Postmark as well as Beanstalk, entrepreneur Natalie Nagele (@natalienagele) joins me for a light-hearted, honest and open conversation about the process of building Wildbit, a fully self-funded, hybrid software company. In this episode, we mention: Deep work Leadership in business Loneliness in remote work Hard work vs. Smart work Fundraising and profitability Meditation and mental clarity Building a meaningful business Remote work, in the early days Values, and their constant evolution Productivity software that can do more harm than good Timeline: (04:57) What is Wildbit? How did it start off? (09:32) Pioneering remote work: Pros and Cons (17:24) Slack, and anxiety: the effects of micro-managing expectations (22:58) Remote work: how big of an issue is loneliness? (26:17) Which should you do: work hard or smart? (32:13) Fundraising, VC control, and Profits (37:01) Meditation: Natalie's practice, and company culture (43:50) How is writing therapeutic?  (46:47) How procrastination obstructs your mental space (50:11) 'Trillion Dolar Coach', and the lost secret of leadership (55:50) Technological innovation: what is next?  Please support us by subscribing and leaving a rating + review on Apple Podcasts. You can also help spread the word by sharing this episode with friends and family!    

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” —Charles Darwin I've never quite understood the 40 hour workweek.  Have you?  I mean, if you can get your work done in half of the time...why do you need to sit there until the clock runs out?  Production is production, isn't it? This is just ONE of the issues we discuss with my AWESOME guest, Natalie Nagele, on this week's Leadership Happy Hour.  Natalie is what all leaders should be; a life-long learner.  She is doing things really good but she still wants to do it better so she can "enable life" for her team.  I know you're going to dig Natalie as much as I do! CHEERS! More on Natalie... Natalie is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, the company behind Postmark, Beanstalk and Conveyor. With 29 team members across 5 countries working on multi-million dollar products for developers, she’s proving that you can grow an extremely profitable business while focusing on shorter work days, an enjoyable work-from-anywhere environment, and staying small. Useful background information on Wildbit’s culture and leadership: Wildbit’s company values: Under “The rules that shape the how we work and live” on the home page

Flexible working arrangements are the new craze. Employees want to work from home or coffee shops on their time. Employers want to embrace flexibility and yet get the work done too. Beyond flexible working, arrangements are the notion of working less than 40 hours in a week. I found Natalie Nagele, co-founder of Wildbit. They are a digital agency that has embraced the idea of a standard 32 hours work week. We talk about flexible working arrangements and how they came to fit the work into four days of work. Discover the keys to flexible working arrangements in this interview with Natalie. Get the show notes for Beyond Flexible Working Arrangements- The Power of a 32-Hour Work Week with Natalie Nagele Click to Tweet: Listening to an amazing episode on Leaders in the Trenches featuring Natalie Nagele with your host @GeneHammett https://www.genehammett.com/440 #Flexibleworkingarrangements #Leadership #GHepisode440 #LITTepisodes #Podcasts Give Leaders in the Trenches a review on iTunes!

We’re joined again today by Natalie Nagele, co-founder of Wildbit, and a presenter at Release Notes 2019. Today we continue the conversation we started last week and talk about the importance of having a group of peers to compare notes with, Wildbit’s transition from contracting to products, and how taking care of your employees and […]

We’re joined today by Natalie Nagele, co-founder of Wildbit, and a presenter at Release Notes 2019. We talk about how Natalie got her start in entrepreneurship, how her role at Wildbit has changed as the company has grown, the difference between “businesspeople” and “entrepreneurs”, and how hiring one of those “businesspeople” has helped fill a […]

Natalie Nagele (@natalienagele) is not a fan of following "the rules" when it comes to building her company. In the 18 years since she and her husband Chris started Wildbit, not only have they grown it into a profitable operation that employees over 30 people, but they've done it their way: with remote a team, 32-hour work weeks, numerous product launches, and an obsessive focus on the happiness of their customers and employees. In this episode, Natalie and I dive deep into what's she's learned running a tech business for almost two decades, including why she thinks you should learn from others' experiences but not their advice.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/090-natalie-nagele-of-wildbit

Natalie is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, the company behind Postmark, Beanstalk and Conveyor. We discuss: Two opposites which have built a “legal” business [1:35] Growth strategies: why small is more powerful [3:03] Core elements of how to take care of your core business relationships [8:45] How to become comfortable with saying “no” [10:13] How to carve out time for deep strategic thinking [12:28] The importance for your brain to have space to think [15:10] The beast lives for us and not the other way around [16:36] Turning around things when you hit the wall [21:00] With 29 team members across 5 countries working on multimillion-dollar products for developers, she’s proving that you can grow an extremely profitable business while focusing on shorter work days, an enjoyable work-from-anywhere environment, and staying small. Learn more about Natalie at Twitter (https://twitter.com/natalienagele) . Brief Description of Gift a free month of Wildbit’s transactional email delivery service, Postmark URL for Free Gift Drop an email to natalie@wildbit.com Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 1Shares

Natalie Nagele, CEO at Wildbit, shares how a 32-hour work week has helped her company minimize busy work, gain focus, and prioritize high-impact work. Get the latest updates from the show at www.thisisproductmanagement.com.

Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a successful software company that started in the year 2000. Natalie has a unique outlook on the way we work and she likes to do things differently. At Wildbit, they work a 32 hour work week over 4 days. Then they take 3 days to clear their heads and reconnect with home. Natalie wants us to rethink what's truly important in our lives and how we can honor those things in the way we work. She shares a thought-provoking message that has the power to change lives.To find out more about Natalie Nagele and her work, simply visit wildbit.comYou can find Natalie on Twitter as @natalienagele See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-unmistakable-creative-podcast.

Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a successful software company that started in the year 2000. Natalie has a unique outlook on the way we work and she likes to do things differently. At Wildbit, they work a 32 hour work week over 4 days. Then they take 3 days to clear their heads and reconnect with home. Natalie wants us to rethink what's truly important in our lives and how we can honor those things in the way we work. She shares a thought-provoking message that has the power to change lives.To find out more about Natalie Nagele and her work, simply visit wildbit.comYou can find Natalie on Twitter as @natalienagele See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Natalie Nagele, Co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, discusses product updates, operating with more meaning and purpose, user research, bootstrap vs VC funding, and experiments in productivity (like a 4-day work week, turning off Slack, and strategies for remote work). Wildbit Natalie on Giant Robots Ep #66 Conveyor Deep Work- Cal Newport Natalie on Twitter See open positions at thoughtbot! Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!

For more info, visit: https://blog.outbackteambuilding.com/podcast-company-retreats-bring-big-benefits-for-the-small-remote-software-company-wildbit The benefits of company retreats are well-known. Not only do retreats get employees out of the everyday monotony of office life, but they also serve as a great way to team build with your colleagues. But what about the advantages for a small group that works remotely? For Wildbit, a Philadelphia-based software company at which more than half of their 30 employees work from around the world, they are twofold. In our latest episode of Outback Talks: The Employee Engagement Podcast, we speak with Wildbit co-founder and CEO Natalie Nagele about the role that retreats play at the company, as well as the complex yet considerate thought process that goes into planning these trips.

Listen to Natalie Nagele, Co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, discuss how she views and manages the "HR" role as CEO of a small company.

To redeem a free $100 LinkedIn ad credit, go to LinkedIn.com/HACK. What if you could run a successful software company with your significant other, have you are your team of 30 people work just 32 hours per week, build houses on the side, and be a loving and caring parent? Natalie Nagele has done just that. For the past 14 years, she has been the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit. Wildbit is the parent software company of Beanstalk, Postmark, Conveyor, and Deploybot which they sold in 2017. Wildbit builds software that enables developers to get out of the weeds and focus on what they do best -- which is to design, code, and ship brilliant software. In this conversation we discuss: - Why focusing on your team is more vital than focusing on your products - How to solve really big pain points for a really small audience - Making space to enable your team to get into deep work Now, let's hack... Natalie Nagele.

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Sherry interviews Natalie Nagele of Wildbit, about her origin story as a young entrepreneurial woman in the tech space. They talk about the strong qualities she learned from her immigrant parents and the dynamics of working with your spouse. Want more content like this? Check out our book.

Sherry interviews Natalie Nagele of Wildbit, about her origin story as a young entrepreneurial woman in the tech space. They talk about the strong qualities she learned from her immigrant parents and the dynamics of working with your spouse. Want more content like this? Check out our book. The post Episode 178: Founder Origin Stories: Natalie Nagele appeared first on ZenFounder.

In this episode we're joined by Natalie Nagele from Wildbit to talk about starting a business vs. consulting, employees with side hustles, how to pick conferences to attend, and yes, GDPR.

In this episode we’re joined by Natalie Nagele from Wildbit to talk about starting a business vs. consulting, employees with side hustles, how to pick conferences to attend, and yes, GDPR. Thanks to Linode for sponsoring this episode. Sign up today and get $20 off. Discuss this episode in the forums >>   The post #104 – I Don’t Want To Talk About GDPR The Whole Time w/ Natalie Nagele from Wildbit appeared first on Bootstrapped.fm.

What comes first, the product or the team? Without any doubt, the team is #1 priority for Natalie Nagele, co-founder and CEO of Wildbit. We discuss their strategy around multiple SaaS products, how they became a product agnostic team, and how they juggle resources while staying focused and productive. Podcast feed: subscribe to http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1441/rss in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music. Show Notes Wildbit — Natalie's company Beanstalk, Postmark, Conveyor, Deploybot (acquired) — Wildbit's products JD Graffam, Serial Acquirer of SaaS Apps — an interview with JD Graffam by Garrett Dimon (his former product Sifter now also belongs to JD) Slack, Jira, Basecamp, Confluence — communication and project management tools used by Wildbit Pigeonbot — a tool that sends email from Slack Experimenting with a 4-day work week, 4-day work week update — articles on how Wildbit adopted a shorter work week Follow Natalie on Twitter: @natalienagele Today's Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Balsamiq. A Balsamiq customer recently called it “the only wireframing tool that doesn’t make me feel stupid”. Try the new web app free for 30 days at balsamiq.cloud — you’ll be productive in no time! Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a Review Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.

Back in the early 2000s, Wildbit was an agency building Flash websites for Philly nightclubs. Then, in 2007, they launched their first product, Beanstalk. Two years later, they quit doing consulting. Natalie Nagele takes us through their story!

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Natalie Nagele guest is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a bootstrapped software company that builds web apps to help software developers collaborate better. The Show Notes Wildbit Beanstalk DeployBot PostMark Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable 37Signals Basecamp Getting Real book Chris on Twitter Natalie on Twitter Omer on Twitter Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

Natalie Nagele guest is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a bootstrapped software company that builds web apps to help software developers collaborate better.The Show NotesWildbitBeanstalkDeployBotPostMarkWhy we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable37SignalsBasecampGetting Real bookChris on TwitterNatalie on TwitterOmer on TwitterEnjoyed this episode?Subscribe to the podcastLeave a rating and reviewFollow Omer on TwitterNeed help with your SaaS?Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support.Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue.Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

Today we talk with Natalie Nagel Co-founder and CEO of Wildbit. Wildbit is known for it's popular products Beanstalk, Postmark and Deploybot. We talk about productivity and how they've built it into the culture at Wildbit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natalie and I talk about bootstrapping, learning that marketing is a necessary part of growing a software company, and the transitions that led Wildbit to be a family-focused company. We touched on the benefits and challenges of running a multi-product company, the inspiration for the various products, and the difficulties of hanging in there as a business gets older and the responsibilities grow and change. Special Guest: Natalie Nagele.

This week, I chat with Natalie Nagele, co-founder of Wildbit, makers of Beanstalk, Postmark and Deploybot. https://founderchats.com/founder-chats-natalie-nagele-wildbit-cbe18201f04d

In this of episode of Giant Robots, Ben speaks with Natalie Nagele and Ilya Sabanin about Wildbit, Beanstalk, and work flow. Wildbit Beanstalk Ilya Sabanin's Twitter Natalie Nagele's Twitter