leadership
Have a Broken Team? Look In the Mirror to Fix It
You are a resourceful, tireless leader. You’ve read enough research, incorporated several frameworks into your business, and are aware of your own blind spots and weaknesses. Yet, the team doesn’t hear. Even worse, some of the processes are falling apart, clients go, and employees leave, too. What’s...
Why to Visualize Failure and How to Find Your Energy as a Founder with Milen Manev from PlanDelta
Our guest today is Milen Manev, the co-founder and CTO of PlanDelta, a next-generation planning tool bridging the gap between strategic and financial planning. With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Milen has a wealth of knowledge in software product development and has held various...
Entrepreneurship as a Personal Growth Path With George Dochev From LucidLink
Our next guest is on a quest to redefine the way businesses collaborate and work with data in the cloud. With more than 20 years of experience in building successful enterprise software products, George Dochev is the co-founder and CTO of US-Bulgarian scale-up LucidLink. The company’s...
The Power of Creativity With Ionut Vlad from Tokinomo: An Artist’s Approach to Disrupt Shopping
Today on The Recursive Podcast we get to find out more about revolutionizing in-store advertising with robots. Ionut Vlad is the co-founder of Tokinomo, a technology company that uses sensors, motion, light, and sound, to bring shelf products to life and increase shopping engagement. No wonder the startup...
How We Learn With Lavinia Mehedintu From Offbeat
Next stop for The Recursive Podcast – Bucharest, where we meet with Lavinia Mehedintu. She has dipped her toes in different educational programs as a student before embarking on an entrepreneurial journey of her own, in the learning and developing pool with the social learning platform Offbeat. With a diverse background...
Inspiration should come from within with Thomas Metz from Bosch Engineering Center Sofia
Our next guest is driving innovation in the future of mobility. Thomas Metz is the Managing Director of Bosch Engineering Center Sofia. In his conversation with Irina, Metz shares how his career path to building the future generation of cars started as a childhood dream. Growing up in a small...
The Art of Breaking the Ice in Business
Grégoire Vigroux is a French Serial Entrepreneur and Business Angel, based in Romania since 2006. He co-founded and invested in 21 businesses across Eastern Europe and had 4 exits. The French entrepreneur believes entrepreneurs have an increasing role to play in shaping a meaningful world. He thinks success, in...
Why you need to embrace chaos with prof. Martin Vechev from INSAIT?
When Martin Vechev graduated in Computer Science from Cambridge university he dreamt of creating a world-class research center in his homeland Bulgaria. Today, his dream is a reality. Prof. Martin Vechev is the architect of The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) in Sofia. The deep...
How can you take care of your team’s mental health during the uncertainty of war?
Nadezhda Markova is a clinical psychologist and an author at the blog Paths between us. She supports her clients in coping with anxiety, burnout, interpersonal difficulties, and emotional dysregulation through the methods of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Nadezhda is part of the team of specialists at hOUR THERAPY, a service designed...
What can stoicism teach you about entrepreneurship with Ciprian Borodescu from Algolia
It’s a new year, and a new episode of The Recursive podcast. Our first stop for 2022 is Bucharest where we meet an entrepreneur who is as keen on technology and AI as much as he enjoys talking about philosophy and leadership. Ciprian Borodescu is the co-founder of...
If you want to go to the Moon, don’t be afraid of the acceleration with Hristo Borisov from Payhawk
2021 has been a spectacular year for Hristo Borisov. The co-founder and CEO of the Bulgarian fintech startup Payhawk and his team raised a 20M dollars Series A in the first half of the year, followed by a historic for the Bulgarian ecosystem 112M dollars Series B in November....
Entrepreneurship is a marathon with Xavier Marcenac from Nasekomo
Next on The Recursive podcast, we welcome Xavier Macenac, a seasoned French businessman whose entrepreneurial journey is deeply intertwined with the fast development of the Bulgarian post-communist economy. Xavier Marcenac first came to Bulgaria in the early 90s. One of his early jobs back then was doing audits and...
