Scaling a SaaS to €35M ARR: 3 Mistakes I'd Never Repeat

Best forFounders moving from a handful of people to a real team who are still the bottleneck on decisions.

Speaker
Tim Vandecasteele
Source
Talk, MicroConf (YouTube)
Published
23 Aug 2026
Length
10 min
Talk, MicroConf (YouTube), 10 min Watch on MicroConf (YouTube)

Our notes

Tim Vandecasteele grew Silverfin to €35M ARR over ten years before selling, and he picks out three costly mistakes. He describes acting as a benevolent dictator, assuming culture spreads without being written down, and giving outside hires more credit than the people already on the team. The common thread is that too much lived in his head, and he also explains why taking secondary money was a move he'd make again.