Cut through the noise with candid conversations from the operators who’ve been there. Get the playbooks, pitfalls, and proven moves to scale your business with confidence.
HOSTED BY
Bethany Ayers
Brandon Mensinga
Join over 28,000 operators
Join over 28,000 operators who tune in each week to sharpen their edge.
This isn’t theory. It’s where we get honest about the messy, complex reality of scaling companies —
what works, what doesn’t, and how the best COOs and operators are navigating it.
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Your hosts
Bethany Ayers is CEO at Metomic and a seasoned COO who has raised over $200M from top funds including Softbank, Bessemer, TCV, MCC, Notion and Oxx. She’s built GTM engines at Peak AI, NewVoiceMedia and Codility, and sits on four AI startup/scale-up boards, helping them nail product-market fit and scale revenue.
Brandon Mensinga is a veteran Chief Operating Officer and has successfully ramped four VC-backed startups, two of which successfully exited; one to Nuance Communications and the other to Microsoft. Exit value to-date runs over $300m. He now runs a Fractional COO consultancy.
Remember when valuations were 3x ARR and money wasn't free?
We do.
Between us, we’ve spent 30+ years inside the engine rooms of scale-ups — building GTM machines, raising $200M+ from top funds, scaling teams across continents, and delivering exits worth $300M+.
We’ve sat in the COO seat through the messy middle. The fundraising rollercoasters. The boardroom battles. The FP&A spreadsheets that never balanced on the first try. The people challenges that don’t fit into a neat playbook.
That’s why we created The Operations Room: to open the door on what it really takes to run a company when you’re not the one on stage, but the one making sure the lights actually stay on.
