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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S9 E22: Roman Sevast, Awesomic

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Roman Sevast was born in a small city in Ukraine. When he met his girlfriend, he wanted to take her out to dinner - but he didn't have the money to do so. So he started to learn software engineering to make a little money - and his tech career started. Outside of tech, he loves to play a myriad of different video games, and enjoys DJ'ing - either for himself or for his friends. He tends to play techno or house music, but has thrown in some classical music from time to time. Eight years ago, Roman met his co-founder Stacy on Tinder. After dating for several years, she showed him some buggy apps she had tried to create, and Roman stepped into help. After a few failed startup attempts, they set out to build a space where companies meet design talent - within the same day - and have these designer's projects managed with AI. This is the creation story of Awesomic. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

We told ourselves that Assumic need to prove us that we need to spend next 10 years and by

0:09.2

proving us that this business idea would work.

0:12.5

At the beginning we just created a landing page where we described it what we want to do and

0:18.0

we literally didn't code anything before lunch into a market.

0:21.6

Within two weeks we got three customers and only after this first iteration of validation

0:27.6

we moved to a second step. It's basically developing the product.

0:31.6

This time we decided to do everything super quickly and as much lean as possible.

0:39.1

My name is Roman Celeste.

0:40.6

I'm founder and CEO of Asomic.

0:46.5

This is Code Story.

0:49.4

A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.

0:52.4

It's six months moonlighting.

0:53.7

There's nothing on the backcats.

0:55.8

Who share what it takes to change in industry.

0:58.3

I don't exactly know what to do next.

1:00.2

Just took many goes to get right.

1:02.2

Who built the teams that have their back.

1:04.5

The company is its people.

1:06.1

The teams help each other achieve.

1:07.5

Most proud of our team.

1:09.1

Keeping scalability top of mind.

1:11.7

All that infrastructure was a pain.

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