State of Views #4
Pol doing something new, Gerard focusing on Deale's great progress, Views keeps growing, Saint Paul's lessons on suffering
Hi everyone,
After another badge of 10 new interviews, we are back with the State of Views #4 to share some relevant updates and lessons.
Hope you enjoy it!
Best
Pol
Summary
🤝 Team: Pol doing new stuff, Gerard growing with Deale, Team changes
📈Traction: Getting close to 1.5m Views’ views with great stories
🥊 Lessons: What Saint Paul and our Views’ guests have in common
🤝Team
Pol building something new
Something more than a year ago, I (Pol) left my work as part of the Investment team at Kibo Ventures to build something new. Following this, I’ve been heads down working in silence.
Since it has not been shared publicly yet, not much to add until the next State of Views. So there I am enjoying some great views in a biker club. 😂
Gerard fighting and growing
Gerard, like the beast he is, has kept fighting and growing with his company Deale, surpassing €126k MRR, >5k business users, >5k investors users, ca. 100 SME M&A deals closed, and 33 FTEs.

A true statement to become one of the most interesting new players in Southern Europe using tech to pursue the huge opportunity of improving the SME M&A scene.
Changes
After the great opportunity of learning from #40 amazing guests while having some fun, there is a very important update to share … Gerard has taken the hard but more than fair choice of leaving Views to focus on his company Deale.
I could say lots of things but I only feel like expressing how grateful I am for our friendship Gerard. You are a reference as a friend and as a professional, you inspire me constantly and it’s been nothing but a pleasure to share this Views journey with you. Cheers to the new paths that are yet to come for us!
That being said, while this represents a new chapter for Views, I will continue with the adventure adding some fresh extra push while balancing it with my new projects!
📈 Traction
We have continued our growth, but this time in a more moderated pace with few exceptions (post #37 with Samuel Gil being one of them). In part because there is more noise in the “media space”, but also because having less time for frequent posting. Plus, taking decisions that we knew could bring less views but we found more interesting due to its social impact / personal angle.
And beyond just numbers, the new Views badge has been another singular opportunity to learn from truly amazing people.
🥊Lessons
Saint Paul’s grit
Around 57-58 AD, Saint Paul wrote the Epistle to the Romans, which includes Romans 8:18. This writing is widely regarded as one of the most significant writings in human history, and its purpose goes beyond immediate issues within the Roman Christian community. Instead, he tries to articulate the foundations of Christian theology, address unity, strengthen faith and inspire a missional mindset based on God’s redemptive plan.
Interestingly enough (specially when keeping in mind the dark context of Early Christians being so marginalised and persecuted), instead of focusing on the nice sweet things, he extremely emphasised the key role of proper suffering.
His message? Suffering was not the idea of weakness or failure that the traditional Roman culture had. But an invitation of being chosen to participate in redemption, in sanctification. Trials were an opportunity to access the biggest glory. With perseverance, character, and ultimately, hope.
In pasts State of Views, as big lessons earned from our great guests, we talked about significant elements like loving something before is lovable and the importance of hunger. These ingredients are crucial, but there is another piece of the puzzle of success we have detected in the winning patterns of our interviewees and in our own professional and personal lives.
Once you’ve been fighting for a while, both winning and losing, it’s crazy to think how much of everything depends on how do you endure hardships and chaos, and learn to evolve in a healthy way from it instead of falling into fear, confusion, inaction, victim mentality, or resentment. The best entrepreneurs and investors we have met, understand this principle in a profound manner.
And to be honest, from a geopolitical, economic, and technological standpoint, it pretty much looks like we find ourselves in a pivotal moment in human history where embracing this principle is not only essential but also holds the power to elevate us into a whole new realm of progress and possibility.