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June 4, 2024

How Personio built an $8.5bn business — and plans to keep growing

Its CEO Hanno Renner wants Personio to be a global category leader in HR tech — while remaining a European company at heart


Hanno Renner, Personio cofounder and CEO

When Personio first pitched to investors in 2015, the cofounders sold a vision of building a “European category leader” in one of the largest and most untapped HR software segments globally: people processes for SMEs. 

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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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