In the second episode of From Zero to a Hundred, Simon Lidzén sits down with Fast Track Chief Product Officer Juan Pérez, an old friend and former colleague, for a conversation about one of the hardest things any fast-growing company has to manage: its own growth.
Juan joined Fast Track in January 2025 after 12 years at King, arriving in the middle of a period of intense growth and the pains that come with it. Where many people resist change, Juan has built a career on a rare combination. He is naturally cautious and risk-aware, yet deeply able to embrace change and carry whole teams through it. As he puts it, growth gives you freedom, but growth also means pain, and someone has to bring calm to the chaos.
Together, Simon and Juan reflect on his early months at Fast Track—from a wide-reaching review that sparked conversations with over 30 people to a strategy that gave teams something they urgently needed: hope. They unpack the launch of Fast Track AI, iGaming’s first natural language platform for CRM, and the simple but powerful playbook Juan used to win buy-in across every team.
Rather than crafting the perfect plan together, he brought a plan and invited everyone to break it, because people are far better at spotting what is wrong than at building something flawless from scratch.
The conversation also looks back at the King years and a defining lesson in letting go of cherished principles, the surprise of being hired into a role that did not yet exist, and the moment a Christmas experiment with vibe coding turned a months-long personal project into something built in four days.
This is a conversation about change, but it is really about people. How you bring them with you, how you build trust, and what becomes possible when an organisation learns to treat growth not as a threat but as the best problem a company can have.
