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#154 | Focus Is a Superpower: What 30 Years of Building Teaches Us About Tech Leadership w/ Sarah Biller @FinTech Sandbox
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▶︎ #154 | Focus Is a Superpower: What 30 Years of Building Teaches Us About Tech Leadership w/ Sarah Biller @FinTech Sandbox Join your host, Aleksandra Lemańska, for a powerful episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast as she sits down with Sarah Biller, Co-Founder of FinTech Sandbox — a global not-for-profit operating across five continents that provides free access to high-quality data for fintech entrepreneurs — and a seasoned investor, builder, and leader with a non-linear career spanning capital markets, life sciences, venture capital, and fintech. In this episode, Sarah brings a rare combination of grit, depth, and hard-won wisdom to the conversation, starting from her roots in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia and tracing a journey through financial crises, failed startups, and breakthrough companies. The discussion centers around what it truly means to lead people — not just projects — and why the relationship a leader builds before the hard moment arrives determines everything that happens after it. Sarah shares why great feedback begins long before the conversation itself, how leaders can stay focused and purposeful in times of crisis and volatility, and why focus, not hustle, is the real superpower in today's technology landscape. From her experience navigating the 2008 credit crisis to leading teams building tomorrow's FinTech infrastructure, Sarah challenges tech leaders to expand their view beyond the sprint and the ship, and to invest in the human dimension of their teams with the same rigor they apply to their systems. ✔︎ Mentioned in the episode: “Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones” ✉︎ FOLLOW SARAH ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @sarahbiller FinTech Sandbox: https://www.fintechsandbox.org/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵…