When your brother was born I wrote him a letter. I didn’t hold back any insights because after the dramatic, bombshell experience of having our first child, your mother and I were pretty sure he would be our only one… until he wasn’t, and now we have you :) Everything I said to him then and what I want to tell you now applies to you both.
A great chat with Aydin Mirzaee from Fellow.app about my transitioning into the role of CEO, leadership lessons, new mental models, and more.
Listen here: https://fellow.app/supermanagers/vitaly-pecherskiy-stackadapt/
Years ago my two co-workers at StackAdapt did half-Ironman, which greatly inspired me. This year, I finally achieved a milestone of my own by completing my first Olympic Triathlon. During my preparation, I went online seeking advice for enhancing running speed and endurance, I stumbled upon a video featuring a runner.
This is the 7th year I’ve written on my birthday. Every year the format of my birthday article changes, and this year is no exception. In the past, I've focused on lessons learned, but this year I will just share things that are on my mind.
A few weeks ago, after almost a decade of pitching, the tables turned, and I was on the other side of a pitch competition – judging the founders sharing their ideas. Eight companies gave presentations, and I’ve decided to provide unified feedback to all of them in the form of this article.
My interest in the topic of diversity and inclusion started in 2016 when we at StackAdapt produced a documentary exploring the issue of diversity in the technology industry. The documentary included an examination of the “pipeline problem” – namely, how comparatively low numbers of people of color and women study computer sciences and engineering, in turn, contributes to the lack of diversity in these areas in the workforce.
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