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S9 E22: From Meeting His Co-Founder on Tinder to Leading a YC Startup in a War Zone: Scaling an On-Demand Creative Marketplace Under Fire with Roman Sevast, Co-founder & President of Awesomic
Apr 30, 2024 · Season 9 · Episode 22 · 24 min
Marketplace for design and engineering talent
Roman Sevast was born in a small city in Ukraine. When he met his girlfriend, he wanted to take her out to dinner - but he didn't have the money to do so. So he started to learn software engineering to make a little money - and his tech career started. Outside of tech, he loves to play a myriad of different video games, and enjoys DJ'ing - either for himself or for his friends. He tends to play techno or house music, but has thrown in some classical music from time to time.
Eight years ago, Roman met his co-founder Stacy on Tinder. After dating for several years, she showed him some buggy apps she had tried to create, and Roman stepped into help. After a few failed startup attempts, they set out to build a space where companies meet design talent - within the same day - and have these designer's projects managed with AI.
This is the creation story of Awesomic.
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