Season 5
From StarCraft Player to Maximizing Customer Lifetime Value with Vale…
Over the last couple of decades, Valentin has held a variety of jobs (and launched a few companies). Everything from selling cookbooks on the street to launching an internet service company just because he wanted to play Star...
Have a clear goal beyond creating a company you like with Maxim Rotaru
In this interview, I chat with Maxim Rotaru, founder of a digital product studio Webamboos. Maxim shares insights on how he landed his first client, how he hired his first employee (funny interview process), and a mistake he ...
Meet Pago, the best way to pay your bills in Romania and, soon, the r…
Adrian Cighi started his career in the financial field having worked in Great Britain, and for companies such as Banca Transylvania and Goldman Sachs. He then co-founded Pago which is an application that automates payments t...
How Innovative Romanian Startup Medicai is enabling better sharing be…
A while back, I stumbled onto a story on TechCrunch that caught my attention - an innovative medical startup from Romania, helped doctors from three countries collaborate to treat Ukraine refugee cancer patients – this of cou...
Building community-owned tech products on the Multiverse X Blockchain
Giants Village is a community-owned tech product with a real-world utility that started with a collection of 10,000 unique digital collectibles, known as NFTs, on the Multiverse X blockchain. The project currently has 1,400 h...
How Startup Aiva is Leveraging AI to Analyze CCTV Video Streams with…
Pushkar Chatterji, is the co-founder of Aiva, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses become more efficient and productive through the use of machine learning algorithms. In this chat, he shares how he ...
Harnessing Predictive Traffic with AI Retail Media Startup Footprints
One of the challenges that retailers face is attributing money spent on digital advertising to in-store results. Fortunately, Footprints AI is helping retailers overcome this challenge by providing them with the tools they ne...
Revolutionizing Parent-Teacher Communication with Kinderpedia: The Ed…
▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Discover the story behind Kinderpedia, the EdTech startup that is changing the way parents are involved in their child's education. In this episode, I chat with Evelina...
Helping startups reduce their time to hire by 87%: How Freya Sense is…
▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Florin Lazar is the Chief Operating Officer of Freya Sense - a startup that helps other startups reduce their time to hire by 87% and look for the qualities and persona...
Testing Pre-orders and growing a fashion e-commerce brand to $1M in 4…
▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION Romanian startup founder Raluca Haulica has grown her fashion ecommerce brand Alura to $500k in just three years. In our chat, we discuss: How she started the business ...
KPMG, UiPath, Deutsche Telekom are using Gabriela Constantinescu’s Ch…
▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube *** EPISODE DESCRIPTION How do companies like UiPath, KPMG, and Deutsche Telekom onboard new employees? Through gamification. Chambr is a digital platform used in 22 countries for community bu...
Revolutionizing In-Store Advertising Using Robotic Displays with Ionu…
Ionut Vlad is the founder of TokiNomo. TokiNomo is an in-store advertising solution that uses robotic displays to increase engagement and sales. In this conversation, Ionut shares his journey creating Tokinomo. For example, h...
From Management Consulting at BCG to Creating an Accounting Software …
Taking calculated risks can often lead to great rewards if done correctly. In this chat with Alexandru Anghel, co-founder of Solo, Alexandru shares journey from management consultant to startup founder. To begin, Alex quit hi...
How to Empower Working Moms and Bootstrap a Platform with Alexandra B…
How can you empower working moms and bootstrap a platform? After facing initial rejection from investors, she bootstrapped a platform with her own money that provides resources and a supportive peer community to empower worki...
Innovating Medical Devices with AI while Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
I chat with Dragoš Duse and Diana Andritchi, co-founders of medtech startup Synaptiq. Synaptiq creates software solutions based on AI for improving medical devices, with one tool using revolutionary software to separate cance...
Exploring the Benefits of Media for Growth Funding with Diana Florescu
Diana Florescu is the founder of Media Growth. In this episode we learn about Diana's journey as an entrepreneur and her current project Media for Growth which involves exchanging equity for media assets. Plus, hear about the...
Allgrow: A Global Startup Organization for Social Impact
Listen to Maralina's inspiring journey from wanting to be a painter as a child to becoming an NGO volunteer in countries like Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, and Suriname. Hear her discuss her work in creating ecosystems for people to...
Exploring Chess, Manipulation & Product-Led Growth with Claudio Desca…
Discover how Claudio Descalescu, the chief growth marketer for Y Combinator-backed ArchBee, uses chess, manipulation, product-led growth and surveys to improve products and gain insights into customer behavior. Listen to Clau...