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Andrey Kudievskiy

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

but there are banks who have been here for way longer and they're much larger trust them and work with svb for credit line for transactional stuff but reserves should stay elsewhere so diversify that's the lesson and it was very easy to fix we fixed it as soon as the funds became available we're now clients of one of the top four banks it is unlikely that i will ever leave them but

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

but there are banks who have been here for way longer and they're much larger trust them and work with svb for credit line for transactional stuff but reserves should stay elsewhere so diversify that's the lesson and it was very easy to fix we fixed it as soon as the funds became available we're now clients of one of the top four banks it is unlikely that i will ever leave them but

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

Let me tell you, no, I do not like how big banks operate, how slow they are, how their support is usually not the best and how they rarely understand the needs of the modern businesses. So I will give a credit to SVB. They did their job well. Second mistake. During pandemic, we grew a lot. As I said, we doubled.

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

Let me tell you, no, I do not like how big banks operate, how slow they are, how their support is usually not the best and how they rarely understand the needs of the modern businesses. So I will give a credit to SVB. They did their job well. Second mistake. During pandemic, we grew a lot. As I said, we doubled.

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

Let me tell you, no, I do not like how big banks operate, how slow they are, how their support is usually not the best and how they rarely understand the needs of the modern businesses. So I will give a credit to SVB. They did their job well. Second mistake. During pandemic, we grew a lot. As I said, we doubled.

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

However, that was at some point somewhat mindless growth and not backed up by a longer term vision. We got into areas where we were not comfortable playing. We built some departments that ultimately should not have existed. As soon as the craziness was over, those departments did not align with the company vision. It's like, all right, now let's reassess. And what do we do with these people?

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

However, that was at some point somewhat mindless growth and not backed up by a longer term vision. We got into areas where we were not comfortable playing. We built some departments that ultimately should not have existed. As soon as the craziness was over, those departments did not align with the company vision. It's like, all right, now let's reassess. And what do we do with these people?

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

However, that was at some point somewhat mindless growth and not backed up by a longer term vision. We got into areas where we were not comfortable playing. We built some departments that ultimately should not have existed. As soon as the craziness was over, those departments did not align with the company vision. It's like, all right, now let's reassess. And what do we do with these people?

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

Some are trainable, some are movable to different projects, some are not. And then you go through a round of letting these people go, which you should not have hired. We are a team of exceptional engineers. So let's be engineers. Let's hire engineers. Let's not get into the areas where we do not belong.

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

Some are trainable, some are movable to different projects, some are not. And then you go through a round of letting these people go, which you should not have hired. We are a team of exceptional engineers. So let's be engineers. Let's hire engineers. Let's not get into the areas where we do not belong.

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

Some are trainable, some are movable to different projects, some are not. And then you go through a round of letting these people go, which you should not have hired. We are a team of exceptional engineers. So let's be engineers. Let's hire engineers. Let's not get into the areas where we do not belong.

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

That's not a mistake that I believe if I would be staying true to the company core and the values and would not get into the area where we didn't need to be. Completely, again, preventable, fixable, and we did fix it at the end.

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

That's not a mistake that I believe if I would be staying true to the company core and the values and would not get into the area where we didn't need to be. Completely, again, preventable, fixable, and we did fix it at the end.

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

That's not a mistake that I believe if I would be staying true to the company core and the values and would not get into the area where we didn't need to be. Completely, again, preventable, fixable, and we did fix it at the end.

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

There is a little bit of uncertainty for the industry that we are currently in. And when I say uncertainty, it always comes with ups and downs, the benefits, the pros and cons. The abundance of Gen AI solutions right now, we're seeing that it's affecting some of our departments. Quality assurance, what before took six hours, now can be done in a couple of minutes by a knowledgeable person.

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

There is a little bit of uncertainty for the industry that we are currently in. And when I say uncertainty, it always comes with ups and downs, the benefits, the pros and cons. The abundance of Gen AI solutions right now, we're seeing that it's affecting some of our departments. Quality assurance, what before took six hours, now can be done in a couple of minutes by a knowledgeable person.

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

There is a little bit of uncertainty for the industry that we are currently in. And when I say uncertainty, it always comes with ups and downs, the benefits, the pros and cons. The abundance of Gen AI solutions right now, we're seeing that it's affecting some of our departments. Quality assurance, what before took six hours, now can be done in a couple of minutes by a knowledgeable person.

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

generate the dataset to test a mobile application or a website. In the past, you needed to know how to do this. You need to be an engineer, a developer. Now I can write it myself. Prompting ChatGPT to create a dataset of 2000 specifically formatted tables in order to upload them to the website and see how that holds. There is a less need for some of the functions.

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

generate the dataset to test a mobile application or a website. In the past, you needed to know how to do this. You need to be an engineer, a developer. Now I can write it myself. Prompting ChatGPT to create a dataset of 2000 specifically formatted tables in order to upload them to the website and see how that holds. There is a less need for some of the functions.

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

generate the dataset to test a mobile application or a website. In the past, you needed to know how to do this. You need to be an engineer, a developer. Now I can write it myself. Prompting ChatGPT to create a dataset of 2000 specifically formatted tables in order to upload them to the website and see how that holds. There is a less need for some of the functions.