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Andrey Kudievskiy

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234 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

there might be no budget or the company strategy is slightly different so for us we try to provide our absolute best advice and position our clients to here is what you need to do to grow from the technology perspective and this is where we can help but sometimes our own ability to affect the decisions are limited we worked in the busy environment and if you don't grow you die

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

there might be no budget or the company strategy is slightly different so for us we try to provide our absolute best advice and position our clients to here is what you need to do to grow from the technology perspective and this is where we can help but sometimes our own ability to affect the decisions are limited we worked in the busy environment and if you don't grow you die

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

there might be no budget or the company strategy is slightly different so for us we try to provide our absolute best advice and position our clients to here is what you need to do to grow from the technology perspective and this is where we can help but sometimes our own ability to affect the decisions are limited we worked in the busy environment and if you don't grow you die

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

Even if you're staying flat, you still die because staying flat, you still need to increase the bill rate because you need to adjust for cost of living adjustments and for inflation. And that means that if your revenue is not growing, then you're literally declining in terms of how the business is going. We got stuck for quite a long time when we were at $10 million in revenue.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

Even if you're staying flat, you still die because staying flat, you still need to increase the bill rate because you need to adjust for cost of living adjustments and for inflation. And that means that if your revenue is not growing, then you're literally declining in terms of how the business is going. We got stuck for quite a long time when we were at $10 million in revenue.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

Even if you're staying flat, you still die because staying flat, you still need to increase the bill rate because you need to adjust for cost of living adjustments and for inflation. And that means that if your revenue is not growing, then you're literally declining in terms of how the business is going. We got stuck for quite a long time when we were at $10 million in revenue.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

And I believe that this is the ceiling that all the founders hit when they are unable to jump over themselves. I was one of them. Luckily, I got some help from the outside, built advisory board, then built the board of directors, brought management, brought head of finance, brought chief revenue officer.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

And I believe that this is the ceiling that all the founders hit when they are unable to jump over themselves. I was one of them. Luckily, I got some help from the outside, built advisory board, then built the board of directors, brought management, brought head of finance, brought chief revenue officer.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

And I believe that this is the ceiling that all the founders hit when they are unable to jump over themselves. I was one of them. Luckily, I got some help from the outside, built advisory board, then built the board of directors, brought management, brought head of finance, brought chief revenue officer.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

And that allowed us to eliminate Andrey, myself, from a lot of decision-making process and allowed us to grow. So I believe that it's not just about how many engineers you can hire, how many clients you can find, but also can you scale yourself?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

And that allowed us to eliminate Andrey, myself, from a lot of decision-making process and allowed us to grow. So I believe that it's not just about how many engineers you can hire, how many clients you can find, but also can you scale yourself?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

And that allowed us to eliminate Andrey, myself, from a lot of decision-making process and allowed us to grow. So I believe that it's not just about how many engineers you can hire, how many clients you can find, but also can you scale yourself?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

If you don't have this ability to check your ego at the door, look at what you're not good at and bring the people who can help you to be good at these things and ultimately are better than you in every area that they are responsible for, then your growth will be limited to how high can you jump.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

If you don't have this ability to check your ego at the door, look at what you're not good at and bring the people who can help you to be good at these things and ultimately are better than you in every area that they are responsible for, then your growth will be limited to how high can you jump.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

If you don't have this ability to check your ego at the door, look at what you're not good at and bring the people who can help you to be good at these things and ultimately are better than you in every area that they are responsible for, then your growth will be limited to how high can you jump.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

I believe right now they're publicly traded salad company. I can order a salad on my phone and I know that my team built a good portion of this ordering process. I can touch it with my own hands. I live in Los Angeles. You drive the 405, the highway, always busy, always staying in traffic. I can see two of our clients' names on the top of their office buildings.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

I believe right now they're publicly traded salad company. I can order a salad on my phone and I know that my team built a good portion of this ordering process. I can touch it with my own hands. I live in Los Angeles. You drive the 405, the highway, always busy, always staying in traffic. I can see two of our clients' names on the top of their office buildings.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

I believe right now they're publicly traded salad company. I can order a salad on my phone and I know that my team built a good portion of this ordering process. I can touch it with my own hands. I live in Los Angeles. You drive the 405, the highway, always busy, always staying in traffic. I can see two of our clients' names on the top of their office buildings.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

And I like to think that there is a 0.1% contribution that Distillery did into those company successes. I think last but not least, I've seen cases when 100 plus year old financial business that felt that they're at least 10 years behind their competition. And in reality, they might have been even 20 years behind. Developed mobile application that allowed them to bring in

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery

And I like to think that there is a 0.1% contribution that Distillery did into those company successes. I think last but not least, I've seen cases when 100 plus year old financial business that felt that they're at least 10 years behind their competition. And in reality, they might have been even 20 years behind. Developed mobile application that allowed them to bring in