Productivity Mastery

🚀 In episode #174 we welcomed Momchil Kyurkchiev, Chief Strategy Officer at CleverTap.
Listen to this episode and learn:
💡Why Momchil left a secure job at Google to start Leanplum
💡Entrepreneurship lessons from the trenches
💡Why culture should be your #1 priority as a founder
💡The journey of raising a total of $ 100 million in funding
💡How to acquire a resilient mindset and weather any crisis
and many more..
About our guest:
omchil is the Chief Strategy Officer at CleverTap, a leading customer engagement platform. He is a visionary leader passionate about building & advising startups. He is a leading expert on user engagement & retention, sharing expertise as a TEDx speaker and industry thought leader.
Prior to CleverTap, Momchil was the co-founder of Leanplum (acquired by CleverTap). As the CEO, he grew the company to 100+ employees with offices on 3 continents. He was recognized as Founder of the Year by the Central European Startup Awards and has been featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine. Under his leadership, Leanplum was ranked a Top 3 Best Place to Work in the Bay Area.
Before Leanplum, Momchil was a senior software engineer at Google where he launched multiple quality improvements to YouTube’s ranking & monetization algorithms. He built some of the core A/B testing infrastructure for featured videos and delivered millions of dollars in additional revenue to help YouTube become profitable.
Momchil has an M.S. in Software Engineering & Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a triple major in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Computational Science from the State University of New York at Brockport.
You can find Momchil here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/momchilkyurkchiev
Enjoy listening and #KeepPERFORMing!
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Website:
https://stoyanyankov.com/podcast/

🚀 In episode #172 we welcomed Helen Murphy, CEO & Co-founder of Opply.
Listen to this episode and learn:
💡Helen's journey from being a Bain & Co consultant to a successful startup founder
💡How to be a productive founder and not neglect your wellbeing
💡What helps Helen Murphy stay focused and get things done
💡How to own your strengths as a (female) founder
About our guest:
Helen Murphy is CEO and co-founder of Opply, a tech company revolutionizing global raw ingredients ordering for Food & Beverage SMBs through automation. She brings a diverse background from leading sales and operations at Procter & Gamble, being a baker, an engineer, consulting at Bain&Co, and starting her own consumer goods brand. These experiences inspired her vision to champion small businesses in consumer goods.
You can find Helen here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/opplyhelen/
Enjoy listening and #KeepPERFORMing!
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Website:
https://stoyanyankov.com/podcast/

This time, the topic is Robust Communication!

I am excited for moderating another panel with a great line-up, including:

Daniel Ackermann, the CEO of Degordian - an independent digital production & marketing agency based in Zagreb Daniel co-founded back in 2009. Today, it’s one of the largest digital marketing agencies in the region. Daniel considers employee satisfaction to be the cornerstone of every successful enterprise, which is why he is so proud of being recognized as a five-time “Best Employer” in Croatia. Daniel also co-founded two sister companies, Mediatoolkit and Bornfight. Together with Degordian, the group now manages over 200 employees.

Kaidi Ruusalepp, the founder and CEO of Funderbeam - the global funding and trading platform of private companies. Funderbeam enables companies to raise funds and investors to invest with liquidity, also list existing shares, employee shares and investments of private companies. Platform has investors from 134 countries and is awarded as the Best European Fintech startup in 2017. Kaidi is a former CEO of Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange and of the Central Securities Depository, co-founder of Estonian Service Industry Association, and a former member of Startup Europe Advisory Board at European Commission.

Cristobal Alonso, an experienced serial entrepreneur (3x CEO), serial early-stage investor (150+ investments), and global executive (leading teams and projects up to 500 people). Cristobal leads as CEO, “el Patron” of Startup Wise Guys. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and is serving as Spain's INSEAD Alumni Association President and President of INSEAD Global Entrepreneurship Club.

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Meet Eli Zheleva - Eli is the author of the book "Marketing Matters in Life and in Business", and she has worked in marketing for the past 10+ years gaining a broad skillset and very valuable experiences. Over the years Eli found that there has been a big overlap between marketing and life. This has naturally led her to merge her digital marketing and life coaching skills. Why and how does Marketing matter in both - life AND business?

Get your coffee and tune in to hear the answers to these questions and more!

In episode #122 of Productivity Mastery, we welcomed Hedi Mardisoo - an energetic and inspiring individual with whom we talked about Attracting and managing an effective (startup) team. Hedi shared a lot with us, including:

💡 How to make people want to stay and grow with you,

💡 Views on the Estonian economy,

💡 Team culture and values when your team grows,

💡 Advice for founders who want to build amazing startup companies, and much more!

Hedi Mardisoo is the co-founder and CEO of Cachet, a financial services ecosystem on a mission to create a better platform economy. Cachet has been listed two years in a row among the top 100 Insurtech in the world. Hedi is passionate about designing services that help people to be smarter about and benefit more from their data. In 2020, Sifted listed her among Europe’s “Women to Watch in Fintech”.

Enjoy listening and stay #productive!

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