{"podcast":{"title":"Scouting for Growth","slug":"scouting-for-growth-4686831","podcast_index_feed_id":4686831,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/sabinega/feed.xml","website_url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/21959862/c84aea4ad531642db775e0d7782c8f77.jpg","author":"Sabine VanderLinden","episode_count":233,"summary":"There are over 180,000 FinTech ventures out there today. My team tracks 7.3 million of them across markets every single week. But the number that matters isn’t the one that’s growing. It’s the one that isn’t. Only 25% of these ventures have secured funding and meaningful backing. The other 75% aren’t just looking for capital. They’re looking for access, credibility, and partnerships with the institutions that can turn a great product into real-world impact. This is Scouting for Growth. I’m Sabine VanderLinden. I lead Alchemy Crew Ventures, and I built the Venture-Client Model for regulated industries... the model where a growth venture earns a corporation as its customer before a VC writes the cheque. When that sequence works, it changes the equation for everyone: founders, corporates, and the investors watching from both sides of the table. Each episode, I bring a founder, an operator, or an institutional leader to the table for the conversation that usually happens behind closed doors: about how corporates really think, how capital really flows, and what it actually takes to build, grow, and scale in a world where the boundaries between FinTech, InsurTech, HealthTech, and AI are…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T16:17:45.012213+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831"},"episode":{"title":"The Capacity Gap","slug":"the-capacity-gap","published_at":"2026-03-26T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/the-capacity-gap","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831","url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com/e/the-capacity-gap/","audio_url":"https://cohst.app/pdcst/6K4Q1I/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/9mxeakuxdbrvht5e/SFG_The_Capacity_Gap_13III26_M_SAS_Jimmy7bsns.mp3","summary":"Execution is the new strategy. Yet most organizations still treat it as an afterthought. In this solo episode, Sabine VanderLinden introduces a critical leadership lens: the Capacity Gap—the structural mismatch between strategic ambition and an organization’s ability to deliver at scale. In a world shaped by generative AI, climate pressure, cyber risk, and rising customer expectations, this gap is no longer occasional. It is systemic—and it is widening. Too often, a failed transformation is blamed on talent, technology, or strategy. Sabine challenges that assumption. The real issue is more fundamental: organizations continue to stack priorities without redesigning how work gets executed. The result? Friction, overload, and stalled value creation. The numbers are hard to ignore: * Up to 80% of strategy execution failures link back to the ambition–capacity gap * $1.85 trillion spent on digital transformation in 2022, yet 70% underperforming * In insurance, only 7% of firms have scaled AI enterprise-wide, with most stuck in “pilot purgatory.” * 70% of scaling barriers are organizational—not technological So what does it take to close the gap? Sabine introduces the concept of the Frontier Firm—organizations that treat capacity not as fixed, but as something to be designed, orchestrated, and multiplied. These firms shift the question from “How do we build this?” to “How do we deliver outcomes faster and smarter?” Two powerful examples bring this to life. Ping An has evolved from a traditional insurer into a technology-driven ecosystem. With over 53,000 patents, 3,000 scientists, and 21,000 developers, it has built an intelligent operating core that delivers real performance gains—7.4-minute claims processing, 93% automated underwriting, and 95% AI accuracy in damage assessm…","meta_description":"Execution is the new strategy. Yet most organizations still treat it as an afterthought. In this solo episode, Sabine VanderLinden introduces a critical l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1047,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scouting-for-growth-4686831/episodes/the-capacity-gap/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/the-capacity-gap.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}