Women Disrupting Tech

Dirkjan Hupkes

Women Disrupting Tech features female founders, tech leaders, and women in tech building the next generation of technology companies. Each week, host Dirkjan Hupkes talks with a founder about how she's scaling a startup, navigating funding, building resilient teams, and tackling challenges from AI ethics to healthcare innovation to climate tech. Whether you're a female tech entrepreneur, aspiring founder, startup leader, or advocate for more women in technology, this show gives you actionable strategies and proven frameworks from women reshaping tech. New episodes every Thursday.

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Women Disrupting Tech

Episodes (145)

Mar 26th Scaling Your Startup Without Losing Its Soul with Relinde Boerman | Ep. 145
Mar 19th How Power and Design Shape the Technology We Use With Dr. Christine Miller | Ep. 144
Mar 12th How a Female Founder Tackles Invisible Labor and Startup Burnout with Jamie Albaum | Ep. 143

Women Disrupting Tech

Mar 26, 2026
1½ hours
129 MB

Most startups hire fast. But is that the right hiring strategy? In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Relinde Boerman, lead recruiter at PolarSteps. This travel app startup scaled from 20 to nearly 100 employees while maintaining the culture that made it special. We explore why PolarSteps ignores time-to-hire as a metric, how they assess culture fit beyond vague feelings, and what it takes to build a talent-dense team that doesn't compromise on values. Relinde explains how clearly defined values become hiring criteria, why curiosity matters more than perfect clarity in a...

Women Disrupting Tech

Scaling Your Startup Without Losing Its Soul with Relinde Boerman | Ep. 145

Dirkjan Hupkes

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