Now
Still building.
Business leadership. Writing. Speaking. Unplain. AI. New ideas.
Story
Told backwards.
Start with what I'm building now. Go backwards if you're curious how I got here.
Going backwards
Now
2021
One pitch changed the direction of my career.
Pitched a product directly to the company founder.
The next chapter became product building.
AI-recreated memory2014
Start again.
Left Cyprus and moved to Moscow.
New country. New career. Corporate customer management.
2010–2011
For a while, music was the plan.
Album. Live performances. Radio. Local television.
Then Twin Fold Executive: a record label. I signed another artist and financed his first single.
AI-recreated memory2009
Delivery driver. Audio engineer. Producer.
The careers didn't exactly match.
That was part of the fun.
AI-recreated memory2007
I got fired.
For my attitude.
A week later I was delivering pizzas.
AI-recreated memory2006
The walk of shame.
I walked down Limassol's seafront asking business after business whether they needed staff.
More than 30 said no before somebody eventually said yes.
AI-recreated memory
AI-recreated memory2001
Before I managed teams, I carried rubble.
At twelve, I decided I wanted my own money.
Construction work came first.
I cleaned swimming pools too.
AI-recreated memory1995
My first business made exactly zero sales.
I drew lottery tickets by hand and tried to sell them outside a village kiosk.
The prize was my remote-controlled car.
Nobody bought one.
AI-recreated memory1995
My first product didn't work either.
A friend and I built an aeroplane from wood, nails and old stroller wheels.
The wings were too wide for the garage doors.
We removed them, rebuilt the plane outside...
It still didn't fly.
And then