The Evolution Podcast: Leadership and Coaching

Scale Without Losing Your Soul: The Startup Culture Guide, ft. Simon D'Arcy and Todd Emaus

April 12, 2023 Evolution
The Evolution Podcast: Leadership and Coaching
Scale Without Losing Your Soul: The Startup Culture Guide, ft. Simon D'Arcy and Todd Emaus
Show Notes

In this episode, Matt Auron, Managing Director at Evolution, sits down with Evolution Partners Simon D'Arcy and Todd Emaus to discuss their new book: Scale Without Losing Your Soul: The Startup Culture Guide

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About Simon

Simon is a speaker, author, executive coach, Founder/CEO advisor, and partner at Evolution, a coaching, consulting and investment firm, where he focuses on helping companies scale without losing their soul. For more than 25 years, he has been part of company-wide culture transformation efforts at Fortune 500 companies and has helped early-stage startups discover and cultivate cultural identities from their earliest days. 

Simon has consulted and coached leaders at over two hundred companies, including startups like Slack, Glassdoor, Dropbox, Yahoo, Iterable and Bandcamp. He has also coached leaders atFortune 500 companies such as ConocoPhillips, Rohm & Haas, and Genentech. He’s seen how culture building can be the difference between creating a mediocre company and creating something  iconic and lasting. 

 About Todd 

Todd Emaus is a venture-backed startup founder focused on supporting other founders and leaders in their journeys.

As a coach and culture builder, Todd helps his clients move past obstacles, win the mental game, build effective teams and lead companies that matter. His experience founding multiple businesses, raising venture capital, and leading rapidly growing teams provides the backdrop for a deep empathy for today’s leaders and the challenges they face.


He is a partner at Evolution, a coaching, consulting and investment firm. His clients have included founders and leaders at some of the most iconic and ambitious organizations of our generation, including Twitter, Slack, Bandcamp, Iterable, Magic Spoon, Snapdocs, Conductor, Tilt, Bond Pet Foods, Firstbase, and others.