On the next stop in Bucharest, The Recursive podcast welcomes Ilinca Paun . She is a person who knows the price of taking big risks to chase the freedom and the excitement of the unknown. At the top of the corporate ladder as the manager of Colliers in Romania, she quit her job as an expert in the real estate business to become an explorer. She co-founded The Entrepreneurship Academy and became a teacher there, advising young people on their entrepreneurial journey, but also learning from them. ...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast The next guest of the Bucharest edition of The Recursive podcast is a person who anticipates future trends and helps people and organizations see the opportunities in them. Ciprian Stanescu is the co-founder of Social Innovation Solutions , an organization that assists leaders in creating sustainable tech, entrepreneurial & policy solutions. With a background in political science and economics, Stanescu consults both NGOs and companies on social impact and innovation. He’s also a professor a...
Oct 19, 2021•47 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Season 2 of The Recursive podcast kicks off in Bucharest. We first meet XENIA MUNTEAN, the co-founder, and CEO of the marketing collaboration platform Planable . She considers herself “an accidental entrepreneur”, even though she started her first business when she was just 20 years old. Today, the platform she and her co-founders built to help marketing teams collaborate better is used by over 5,000 teams around the world behind brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and the United...
Oct 12, 2021•58 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast What is the archetype of a great leader? Does leadership come naturally to people or is it something you can learn on the job? What are the skills you need to adopt and nurture to grow into the leader you want to become? To wrap up Season 1 of The Recursive podcast we picked some of the best insights on leadership that our guests shared on the podcast. In order of appearance: The Vice president Regional Communities Strategy at IT company VMware Diana Stefanova believes that many people hav...
Oct 05, 2021•22 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast In episode 10 of The Recursive podcast, we meet with Bozhidar Bozhanov, the co-founder of cybersecurity company LogSentinel . He’s also one of the driving forces behind the digitalization of the public sector in Bulgaria. A software engineer with a passion for technology and an active citizen stance, Bozhidar has a talent for explaining complex topics. His company Logsentinel offers an information security product, which allows companies to track every single event that takes place in their info...
Sep 28, 2021•47 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast In episode 9 of The Recursive Podcast, we welcome Diana Stefanova, Vice President Regional Communities Strategy at VMware . Currently, VMware is the biggest IT company, operating in Bulgaria. In love with math from an early age, Diana Stefanova has a solid background in finance. Her expertise is in the strategic and business development of both startups and global companies. She started her career in technology startups in the US and quickly rose to leadership roles. Currently, she is also a par...
Sep 21, 2021•59 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast In Episode 8 of The Recursive podcast, Irina meets the Head of Engineering of the American company Product Hunt Rado Stankov. A Bulgarian software engineer, Rado was one of the first employees of Product Hunt who developed into one of the best technical leads in the Silicon Valley. Rado is а frequent guest at tech conferences and podcasts, sharing his knowledge about productivity, product and time management, and working in a remote setup. Rado believes that Southeast Europe as a region needs to...
Sep 14, 2021•51 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 7 of The Recursive podcast welcomes a very special guest - motivational speaker, executive coach, and serial entrepreneur Peter Sage. Entrepreneurship is his game, but understanding human behavior, and the psychology of why we do what we do has been his passion for the last 30 years. Peter Sage has been traveling the world, writing books, giving lectures, coaching others, running marathons, trying to answer the question - how can we become better versions of ourselves. In his conversatio...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast In the sixth episode of The Recursive podcast, we welcome one of the pioneers of technology entrepreneurship in Bulgaria Georgi Kadrev . He’s the co-founder and CEO of image recognition company Imagga and Kelvin Health , а startup building a digital solution for early detection of breast cancer through AI. A software engineer by qualification and a go-getter by nature, Georgi is driven by the aim to create things that are useful to others. He is also an associate professor at Sofia University wh...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast In episode 5 of The Recursive podcast, we welcome the Bulgarian human rights researcher turned social entrepreneur Iva Gumnishka. Only 27 years old, Iva is the founder of Humans in the Loop, a social enterprise aimed at providing refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants with marketable computer skills. Humans in the Loop is specialized in data annotation for the computer vision industry. Their employees perform manual labeling and verification to train machine learning models. The social enterpris...
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast In episode 4 of The Recursive podcast, we get inside the mind of the serial entrepreneur and professional coach, and startup advisor Hristo Neychev. Currently, he is a partner at ST6, a company that delivers consulting services in the fields of software development, DevOps, cloud technologies, lean methodologies, and design thinking. In the last decade, he has been an advisor, trainer, and consultant to many entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 companies, and other business organizations. Driven by his pa...
Aug 17, 2021•48 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast In episode 3 Irina meets with the Romanian serial entrepreneur and angel investor Mircea Vadan. He’s currently a partner at Activize, a startup scouting and acceleration program in the Romanian and Eastern European ecosystems. Mircea is also a board member and investor in Transylvania Angels Network , an initiative bringing together business people interested in angel investing & mentoring tech startups. A computer science engineer, who’s passionate about entrepreneurship & tech startups...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast In episode 2 of The Recursive podcast, we meet with one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the Bulgarian startup community - Svetozar Georgiev - Zarko. He’s one of the co-founders of Telerik, a dev tools software company that was acquired by Progress for $262.5M back in 2014 - the biggest to this date exit in the local ecosystem. Since then, Zarko has been focusing his efforts on sharing the learned lessons with the next generation of Bulgarian leaders. He’s been driving the dev...
Aug 03, 2021•50 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast The first guest of The Recursive podcast is the co-founder and CEO of Office RnD Miroslav Miroslavov. He created a platform for flexible workspace management and turned into a global company with clients in more than 60 countries and employees on three continents. A software engineer with a drive for entrepreneurship from a very young age, ex-Telerik talent and tennis aficionado, Miroslav shares his views about risk taking, winning at all costs and how to nurture a growth mindset. You’ll also le...
Jul 27, 2021•56 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast The first guest of The Recursive podcast is the co-founder of OfficeRnD Miroslav Miroslavov. He created a management platform for flexible workspaces and managed to turn it into a global company with clients in more than 60 countries and employees on three continents. A software engineer with a drive for entrepreneurship from a very young age, ex-Telerik talent, and tennis aficionado, Miroslav shares his views about risk-taking, winning at all costs, and how to nurture a growth mind...
Jul 22, 2021•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Each week The Recursive podcast will take on a journey inside the mind of a digital economy champion from SouthEast Europe. We’ll dive deep into their personal values and leadership style but also how they’ve developed as entrepreneurs and built their businesses. Before we begin we’d like you to meet our hosts - the co-founder of The Recursive Irina Obushtarova and the founder of The Superhuman podcast Georgi Nenov. What they share in common is the passion for inspiring stories. In this episode ...
Jul 20, 2021•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join our hosts Irina and Georgi and get to know the innovation leaders of SouthEast Europe
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