Felipe Polo

He is an innovative entrepreneur who has a passion for building winning teams and scalable organisations As an entrepreneur and investor, he is dedicated to building high-performance teams and scaling companies to reach their full potential His career started with a bunch of organisations that taught him how NOT to lead teams, projects and companies. That nearly got him out of the software industry - until he was lucky enough to move to London, where his life completely changed: he understood there is a right way to set a working culture and SYSTEMS - only through building communities of highly motivated teams. He used that knowledge to co-found a tech company called GuideSmiths in 2014, and launched the Madrid office in 2017. He managed to grow a development team up to 120+ people from scratch in 7 years and 3 countries. GuideSmiths quickly thrived and in March 2021 they sold their business to DCSL Software, creating DCSL GuideSmiths - now One Beyond. After the GuideSmiths venture, he came to realise how key building a great team is when it comes to growing, scaling up and selling a company. He learnt there is science behind the creation of high-performance teams, and so he created his newsletter Team Hackers to share his past and current learnings. In 2025 they decided to join forces with the Afianza group in Madrid to create Orbitant, a next-generation software consultancy company with a strong focus on innovation, engineering and business in the AI era. He is passionate about creating winning teams and organisations, After several years building and selling GuideSmiths (a successful technology company, and achieving a turnover of €9M with a team of 120 people in three countries), he realised how important it is to build a great team when it comes to growing, expanding and selling your company. He learned that there is a science behind creating high-performance teams, so he is trying to apply it on his new software company Orbitant, while sharing his learnings and thoughts on his newsletter, podcast and community.