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Why Growth Stops
A monthly strategic briefing about the decisions that determine whether a company's traction compounds or stalls.
What This Show Explores
Each episode brings on someone who has watched those decisions play out across many companies, and works through one specific pattern with them. One episode might examine how a pricing decision stalled growth. Another might look at what happens when the first go-to-market hire inherits a scattered strategy. Another might examine how board dynamics create decision paralysis.
The guest brings the pattern recognition. Nico Fara provides the synthesis: naming what happened, connecting it to the broader framework, and identifying the decision that should have been made.
The audience is founders and leadership teams at technology companies with real traction who can't work out why growth isn't compounding. This is not a founder storytelling show. It's built for people who calibrate judgment rather than collect tactics.
About The Host
Nico Fara has been interviewing technology leaders on camera for more than five years. She hosted The Immergence weekly for over four years, running live interviews with founders, executives, and researchers across emerging technology and immersive computing. She has moderated, spoken and served as master of ceremonies, track chair and media partner at several global tech conferences.
She came up in deep tech and AI before moving to go-to-market strategy, and now advises tech companies on the decisions that determine whether traction compounds.
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Who Belongs on This Show
Why Growth Stops features investors, seasoned operators, and repeat founders who have watched product-market fit and go-to-market decisions break down at B2B tech companies. Not from theory. From being in the room when it happened.
The ideal guest has 15+ years of experience and enough scars to speak in patterns, not platitudes. They have been directly involved in five or more early-stage companies navigating growth decisions, and can name specific situations where growth stalled because a decision was avoided, alignment fractured, or signals were misread.
Past guests include early-stage investors, VPs who inherited scattered strategies, and founders who learned the hard way what happens when you keep every option open.
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