In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Marcin Wyszynski, Co-Founder and CPO of Spacelift, an IAC management platform that's raised over $22 Million in funding, about how coming across a market-winning idea led him to embark on an entrepreneurial journey in SaaS. Providing a streamlined, flexible and transparent environment for development operations, Spacelift is facilitating a whole new kind of collaboration in corporate software development.
We also speak about his background as a consultant and building a career at Google, the current and future state of the Polish startup scene, how working in the early days of devops led Marcin to his market-winning idea, and why his time as a technical CEO might soon come to an end so he can focus more on product development.
Topics Discussed:
- Marcin’s background in statistics and software engineering, and how he built a career at Google
- How the Polish startup scene is really coming into its own, and producing globally relevant tech companies
- Why building new software solutions is usually a last choice for companies, and how that impacted Marcin’s consultancy work
- Why Marcin plans to transition from CEO to focus on product development as the company grows
- Spacelift’s security-first approach, and how that helped them settle into a product-market fit based on trust
- Why stability in software development will always take priority over shiny new technology
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