Stephan Weber

🎥 New PlentyONE Insights episode is live In the latest episode of PlentyONE Insights, I sat down with Sarah Dioni, Product Manager at PlentyONE, to talk about one of the most critical moments in the customer journey: data import. We discuss 👉 why data onboarding is often harder than it should be 👉 how customer feedback shaped our new Import UI 👉 what makes the new experience clearer, more guided, and less intimidating 👉 and why this release is just the beginning, not the final step If you’re building products, onboarding users, or scaling complex platforms, this conversation gives a real behind-the-scenes look at how product decisions are made at PlentyONE. ▶️ Watch the interview here: https://lnkd.in/d7Hwv4nc #PlentyONE #ProductManagement #SaaS #ERP #UX #CustomerOnboarding #BehindTheScenes #AI #ProductLeadership

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2022 wurde Personio noch mit 8,5 Milliarden Dollar bewertet – heute zweifeln Marktinsider und sogar einige Geldgeber des Software-Start-ups an dieser Bewertung. Die Investoren wollen wieder mehr Wachstum sehen – und so steigt der Druck auf das Unternehmen von Gründer und CEO Hanno Renner. ✍️ Mit welchen Herausforderungen genau Personio gerade zu kämpfen hat, erfahrt ihr von manager magazin​-Redakteur Caspar Tobias Schlenk in der neuen Ausgabe des Newsletters „Tech Update“ von Sarah Heuberger: https://lnkd.in/etfhbcvR Weitere Themen der heutigen Ausgabe: 🔹 320 Millionen Dollar für „World Model“-Entwickler General Intuition 🔹 Das Playbook des weltgrößten Prediction-Markets Kalshi 🔹 Kahlschlag beim Schnelllieferdienst Flink 📷-Credit: Robert Fischer / manager magazin #Personio #Startup #VentureCapital #TechUpdate #Newsletter

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No one has built an AI-native accounting, tax, and payroll services provider for SMEs in Germany, let alone Europe. We are. 👉 SMEs are the lifeblood of our economy. From Kiel to Konstanz, Köln to Kreuzberg, they keep our high streets alive and our neighbourhoods working. Take them out, and our streets would be empty. Yet the people serving them - Steuerberater, accountants, payroll experts - are running workflows built for a past century. This is the gap we are closing at Integral. For us, AI means augmented intelligence. We are not replacing experts; we are amplifying them. Where one expert may serve 50 clients today, with Integral will serve 10, 20, 30 times that, and at a new level of service. This is a generational shift. The market is enormous. The timing is now. The value is real: giving every business owner back the room to focus on the work they wake up for. We believe tomorrow will be better than today. We are building it. And we are hiring the bold to build it with us. Open roles below 👇 👀 Enjoy the full video 👇

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The best platform businesses grow through strong ecosystems. 💜 And some of the best acquisitions start as partnerships. 🤝 Yesterday that got very real: after years of working closely together, Personio has acquired Circula. HR, Payroll and Employee spend now come together for European companies. 🚀🇪🇺 Expense management is hard to get right in Europe, because the rules change at every border. Circula has spent 9 years solving that. Over 500 customers already use both products via our integration, and we share the same mid-market buyer and the DATEV eG and tax-advisor ecosystem. Standalone Circula customers will keep getting a better product as Circula by Personio. Huge welcome, Nikolai Skatchkov, Roman Leichtt, Juliette Kronauer, Jonas Fraeulin and the entire Circula team! Super excited to build whats next together - lets go! 🤩✨ 📰 Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/exV2J9nP 👉🏻 Learn more on our website: https://lnkd.in/eSeyUPN9 #Personio #Circula #HRTech #SpendManagement #Partnerships #Ecosystem

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🇪🇺🇩🇪 Despite their ambition and resilience, many SMEs in Germany are operating under real day-to-day pressure. Our latest research makes this very clear. Half of SMEs have less than three months of financial runway, leaving minimal buffer to absorb disruption. At the same time, financial administration is taking up significant time with over 40% spending at least six hours per week on it. There is also a striking perception gap. Around 90% feel overlooked by policymakers, and over 90% believe small businesses receive less recognition than larger corporates. But the direction of travel is equally clear. Around two-thirds want fully digital, integrated financial solutions, and only a small minority rule out AI entirely. The biggest opportunity lies in automating time-consuming tasks like accounting, tax, and financial analysis. At Tide, this is exactly what we’re seeing on the ground: SMEs don’t just need support, they need simpler, more connected, more intelligent tools to run their businesses. Our focus remains on listening closely and building solutions that give entrepreneurs back time, improve financial clarity, and support growth.

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Personio now connects to Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot via MCP - meaning your people data is no longer sitting in a silo. Your HR team can ask questions and get instant answers. Your employees can manage time-off requests without opening a new tab. Your leadership can ask "why did sales productivity drop in Southern Europe?" and get a real answer - combining absence, onboarding, and attrition data with CRM pipeline metrics. Data, not hunches. And it all runs through the AI tools your team already uses - with Personio's access rights fully respected, so everyone only sees what they're supposed to. We're in beta and I'd love to get you access. Reach out and I'll get you set up. 👇 #MCP #HRTech #FutureOfWork #AIatWork #Personio

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I was shocked. #Munich’s municipal election is a perfect example of how digitization in Germany is broken. 🗳️ Think about doing this manually: - 1 vote for mayor (Oberbürgermeister) - 19 votes for our district council (Bezirksausschuss) - 80 votes for the city council (Stadtrat) You can distribute them across parties. You can give multiple votes to one candidate. Democracy-wise, that’s powerful. User-experience-wise, it’s a nightmare. It’s complex, hard to understand, and requires real effort just to cast a valid vote. And in 2026, we still rely heavily on paper, static explanations, and citizens “figuring it out.” If this is one of the most important civic interactions we have - why isn’t it radically simpler? More intuitive? Better guided digitally? Democracy deserves better UX.

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What is the impact of the proposed labor law changes on German startups? In yesterday's edition of Handelsblatt, I shared my perspective on the plan of Germany's coalition to double the maximum length of fixed-term contracts. The proposal would extend fixed-term contracts from 24 to 48 months, with up to six renewals. Many see this as a win for flexibility. We are less sure this really helps. In our experience, fixed-term contracts don't create flexibility. They create more paperwork, higher costs, and unnecessary complexity. At FINN, we use fixed-term contracts only in very selective cases. Our default is to hire people for the long term. And that won't change. Especially in tech, stability and long-term perspectives matter far more than longer temporary contracts. One part of the proposal we do welcome is the planned easing of dismissal protection for high earners. It creates flexibility without shifting the burden onto those already most affected by fixed-term employment. Link to the Handelsblatt article in the comments. What's your take? Let me know in the comments. Have a fantastic summer weekend! 🌞

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Our office doesn't fit 50 people. So instead of booking a generic event venue for our team offsite, Luise Riebel, our Chief of Staff, asked one of our customers if we could use their restaurant. The answer came back within minutes: "Of course. We use Ordio in all 4 of our locations – we run almost everything on it." Two things stuck with me. First: that's what core infrastructure sounds like. Not "nice tool," but the thing the operation runs on. Second: nobody hands over their restaurant to a vendor. We're approaching 3,000 customers and staying that close gets harder every quarter – but it's the part of scaling I'm least willing to compromise on. We 'll have our team event in a customer's restaurant. Best venue decision we've made.

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