Žiga Vrtačič
Žiga is a seasoned professional with over ten years of experience with startups and established corporations. He was the product director of My Talking Tom, a global mobile game hit…
Technology moves fast. Everyone says that. What they don’t say is how weird it gets along the way. The founders in this section are building the tools, platforms, and systems that shape how we live and work. Some of them are solving problems you didn’t know you had. Others are solving problems you’re painfully aware of.
From artificial intelligence to SaaS platforms to hardware that actually works, the range here is broad. And that’s the point. Technology isn’t one thing. It’s a thousand different people in a thousand different rooms trying to make something better than what exists today.
These interviews get past the jargon. No whitepapers. No buzzword bingo. Just founders explaining what they’re building, why they’re building it, and what they’ve learned along the way. The honest version, not the pitch deck version.
You’ll find conversations about product development, scaling challenges, hiring mistakes, and the particular brand of optimism required to ship software into a world that already has plenty of it. Whether you’re building in tech, investing in tech, or just trying to understand why your phone now has opinions, there’s something here for you.
Žiga is a seasoned professional with over ten years of experience with startups and established corporations. He was the product director of My Talking Tom, a global mobile game hit…
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