Bring Startup
Momentum
To Your Company
Unlock the conviction, speed, and market-shaping power of a startup with the scale and resources you already command.
The Opportunity
SCALE SHOULDN'T KILL SPEED.
Your company has everything it needs to win: unlimited resources and talent.
The world's most innovative companies don't choose between scale and speed, they master both. This talk delivers the playbook for installing the core values that turn established teams into agile forces.
"Your people want to build something meaningful. They're ready for a culture that ignites their best work."
Value Creation
Transform bureaucratic process into tangible value creation.
Velocity
Make decisions in days, not months. Speed is a habit.
Ownership
Unlock true ownership of outcomes, not just task completion.
Culture
Evolve your culture to match your ambitions and retain talent.
The Speaker
The Bridge Between
Two Worlds
My unique perspective comes from living in both worlds: the scale of big tech, and the grit of startup survival.
Corporate Scale
- / Built products for millions at Microsoft
- / Rewrote Skype from ground up
- / Led distributed engineering teams
Startup Grit
- / Built OTA platform with zero funding
- / Scaled Blanket through Series A
- / Navigated Harmonic's VC pivot
"I don't speak from theory. I speak from survival. From the moments when the right values made the difference between shipping and drowning."
"Over the years, I've brought Miguel in for team motivation sessions at multiple organizations. He always manages to captivate the audience, transmit energy, and at the same time leave concrete advice that directly impacts their daily work. I look forward to continuing to count on him in the future."
The Keynotes
Momentum
The Unfair Advantage
I break down the core values that allow small, resource-constrained teams to outperform giants.
Clarity of Mission
Know where you're going.
Startups win because everyone knows exactly what they're building and why it matters.
What Your Team Will Learn:
- /Why most companies confuse busy activity with purpose
- /How startups rally around a singular, urgent mission that drives every decision
- /Why shared mission creates true resilience under pressure
Extreme Ownership
Own getting there.
Everyone acts like a founder, owns outcomes not just tasks.
What Your Team Will Learn:
- /The difference between "doing your job" and "owning the outcome"
- /How startups create a culture where everyone acts like a founder
- /Why high-trust teams move faster with less process and bureaucracy
Speed over perfection
Move fast and learn.
Ship, learn, iterate beats plan forever, execute once.
What Your Team Will Learn:
- /The startup principle: "Ship, learn, adapt" beats "plan endlessly, execute once"
- /How to build a culture of continuous iteration instead of analysis paralysis
- /Why velocity of learning beats quality of planning
What Makes This
Talk Different
ENERGY
Captivating urgency of startup momentum
EXPERIENCE
Real stories from surviving the startup grind
FRAMEWORKS
Tools your team can apply immediately
AUTHENTICITY
Real talk about chaos, failure, and breakthroughs
The 5%
That Works
AI Lessons from Inside a Startup
95% of AI pilots fail. This talk reveals what the 5% do differently, told from inside an AI startup that has no choice but to make it work.
Context Machines
Design for agent access.
AI is only as good as the context it can access.
What Your Team Will Learn:
- /Why organizing information for humans actually limits your AI
- /How funneling data to agent-discoverable locations compounds value
- /Real example: Customer Value Agent linking meeting notes to $2.3M impact
Agent Everything
Automate the tedious.
Every repetitive task becomes a question: could an agent do this?
What Your Team Will Learn:
- /How a single Slack complaint becomes an automated pull request
- /Stop asking "is this worth automating?" start asking "why haven't we?"
- /Real example: Slack Issue Bot that categorizes, assigns, and generates code changes
Cultural Permission
It's not about tools.
The 5% aren't smarter. They're willing to be uncomfortable.
What Your Team Will Learn:
- /Why "safe" is the most dangerous thing you can be right now
- /How PMs shipping code and designers submitting prototypes changes your operating model
- /Why below-the-line solutions that work today become liabilities tomorrow
What Makes This
Talk Different
DATA-DRIVEN
Grounded in real experiences and production metrics.
INSIDER VIEW
From a team that can't afford to fail at AI
ACTIONABLE
Three takeaways you can try right now
HONEST
Including our own failures and McNuggets moments
"For our anniversary as a business group, I had the opportunity to invite Miguel to share his experience and his development as a professional in an international environment. With the aim of inspiring, showing how decision-making and resilience are the foundation of great changes, he told us how he achieved it from his own reality. He managed to ground ideas and show how everyone can overcome limiting thoughts. It was an enriching talk, full of truth. Thank you, Miguel."
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momentum?
Let's discuss how this talk can transform your organization's culture and results. No obligation, just a conversation about impact.
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