Andrew Wrobel

April 5, 2022
Success and Failure: Increasing productivity with Readdle’s Denys Zhadanov

Denys Zhadanov, a board member and previously the vice president of marketing at Readdle, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about how the company defines productivity and uses science and disruptive technologies to increase personal productivity. He also talks about the company’s successes and failures related to both marketing and products, and...

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March 22, 2022
Success and Failure: Designing the experience with Genoveva Christova

Genoveva Christova, one of the founders and owners (alongside Anelia Kassabova) and managing director of Ligna Group, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the company’s origins, successes, and challenges, and its further global expansion.

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March 8, 2022
Success and Failure: Speaking the same language with Alexandru Iliescu

Alexandru Iliescu, one of the founders alongside his brother Tudor and the CEO of Mondly, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the edutech app and the future of learning languages. They also talk about the company’s successes and challenges in developing a solution used around the globe.

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February 22, 2022
Success and Failure: The future of shopping with Michał Blak

Michał Blak, one of the founders and the CEO of edrone, an artist turned into a tech entrepreneur, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about his company’s plans but also about his success of building a global company, and lessons he has learnt from his mistakes.

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November 26, 2021
Success and Failure: Animating music with 351 Studio’s Zoran Aleksikj

Zoran Aleksikj, one of the founders and the CEO of 351 Studio, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the firm’s work with Ed Sheeran’s team, about the studio’s other productions for musicians such as Bruno Mars and James Blunt, and labels like Universal or Atlantic Records.

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November 12, 2021
Success and Failure: Women in fintech — with Vilve Vene

Vene speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the development of fintech during her career, which now spans more than two decades, about women in tech, and about her own successes and failures on the way.

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October 26, 2021
Success and Failure: the Israeli way — with Adi Barel

Adi Barel, managing director at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) hub in Israel, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the Israeli approach to doing business, success and failure, the importance of tachles, chutzpah and yalla and – most importantly – what emerging Europe’s start-up founders can learn from the Israeli approach.

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August 17, 2021
Sustainable Impact: Data protection and privacy with Julian Zawistowski

Julian Zawistowski, a visionary, entrepreneur, and the founder of the Golem Foundation, spoke with Andrew Wrobel about how to give power back to users, how to protect personal data, donating personal data, and the challenges emerging Europe is facing as far as data security, cyber-attacks and surveillance are concerned.

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August 3, 2021
Sustainable Impact: Financial literacy in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan with Zuhursho Rahmatulloev

Zuhursho Rahmatulloev, one of the founders of Alif Bank, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about his return to Tajikistan after his studies in the UK, the opportunities Tajikistan and Uzbekistan offer and the bank’s plans to contribute to the social change the two countries are facing.

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July 20, 2021
Sustainable Impact: building an international business with Oleg Krot

Oleg Krot, managing partner at TECHIIA Holding, a group of companies operating globally in various sectors but still headquartered in Ukraine, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about how he and his business partner have been building an international business for less than a decade.

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July 6, 2021
Sustainable Impact: Opportunities in fintech with Michael Rogalskiy

Michael Rogalskiy, co-founder of Monobank and Koto, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the development of fintech in Ukraine and across the region, and the opportunities the sector offers.

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June 15, 2021
Sustainable Impact: Understanding online presence with Katerina Sukhenko

Katerina Sukhenko, the founder and chief business development officer at PostoPlan, a fast-growing automated marketing platform for small and medium businesses, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the importance of building that online presence and offers some advice about how to optimise the process.

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