Open The Pod Bay Doors

In this episode of Open the Pod Bay Doors, Ian Gardiner sits down with long-time friend and tech leader Matt Loop, now Head of Asia Pacific at Rippling. Matt has been at the heart of SaaS for two decades. From opening Salesforce’s first Australian office out of his Bondi apartment, to helping LinkedIn scale across Asia and the US, guiding Slack through the chaos of COVID, and now leading Rippling’s rapid expansion across APAC — Matt has lived through (and helped build) some of the most iconic software companies of our time. They cover: Opening Salesforce AU with nothing but a laptop and a dream Lessons from LinkedIn’s hypergrowth and $26B acquisition by Microsoft Scaling Slack globally during the pandemic and its $27B acquisition by Salesforce Building Rippling’s Australian business from scratch to 100+ people in two years The hard realities of scaling from 10 → 100 people (and why it’s “really bloody hard”) How to hire and evaluate top sales ta