Analysis

April 8, 2022

The problems that COOs at Europe's top startups are dealing with right now

We spoke to six COO’s from fast-growing tech startups and asked: what’s the biggest problem you’re dealing with?


A chief operating officer (COO) has their fingers in lots of pies. While the job description of a COO varies wildly from company to company, these executives typically make decisions across all areas of the organisation: from production, marketing and sales to finance and legal.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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