In this episode of INSIDE Stellar, the team takes you inside one of Stellar’s company congresses; a company offsite where a fully remote, distributed team comes together to align, reflect, and build what’s next.

Natalia, Dursun, and Simone unpack why these moments matter far beyond team bonding: from aligning tech, operations, and commercial strategy, to uncovering inefficiencies, strengthening communication, and reinforcing a shared vision across locations. The conversation also explores how transparency, trust, and in-person collaboration accelerate decision-making and growth in a remote-first company.

Whether you’re building or working in a distributed team, this episode offers a real look at how culture, leadership, and strategic alignment come together to scale a company.

Topics covered:
– Purpose of company offsites & remote team alignment
– Distributed teams and company culture
– Strategic alignment across tech, ops, and commercial
– Leadership, transparency & psychological safety
– Scaling a remote-first company

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In this episode of the INSIDE Stellar, the team reflects on Stellar’s 2025 commercial journey which marks the first full year of active sales, ambitious revenue and ARR targets, and what it actually took to exceed them by more than 2.5x.

Natalia, Dursun, and Simone discuss the commercial fundamentals that made the difference: fast customer response times, contracts in plain-English, hands-on support, event-driven sales, and partnerships built for long-term growth. The conversation also dives into how technology, operations, and sales had to scale together, and why simplicity often outperformed complexity.

Topics covered:

– B2B sales growth & ARR targets

– Customer experience as a revenue driver

– Events and partnerships in enterprise sales

– Scaling sales, tech, and operations together

– Lessons from exceeding commercial goals

00:00 Intro

00:51 Reflecting on 2025

02:32 Key factors behind our success

04:07 Outstanding customer experience

08:41 Sales-driven outbound sales strategies

14:22 Amazing tech

31:18 Looking ahead to 2026

33:58 Takeaways

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🎧 INSIDE Stellar is the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of a fast-growing connectivity company. We discuss tech decisions and commercial strategy as well as the human moments in between. Every episode brings real conversations from the Stellar team, unfiltered and unscripted.

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This week on INSIDE Stellar, we dive deep into GLOBBLE and the technology behind it that is powering truly unbreakable connectivity on the move, and in remote locations.

How does it actually work? What’s next for our tech? And how are companies already using it across fleets, emergency vehicles, and connected assets?

We break it all down and share an exclusive announcement about an upcoming project for Stellar which will change the experience of internet. 👀

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