The Recursive Podcast

What is the archetype of a great leader? Does leadership come naturally to people or is it something you can learn on the job? What are the skills you need to adopt and nurture to grow into the leader you want to become? To wrap up Season 1 of The Recursive podcast we picked some of the best insights on leadership that our guests shared on the podcast. In order of appearance:  The Vice presid...

In episode 10 of The Recursive podcast, we meet with Bozhidar Bozhanov, the co-founder of cybersecurity company LogSentinel . He’s also one of the driving forces behind the digitalization of the public sector in Bulgaria. A software engineer with a passion for technology and an active citizen stance, Bozhidar has a talent for explaining complex topics. His company Logsentinel offers an information...

In episode 9 of The Recursive Podcast, we welcome Diana Stefanova, Vice President Regional Communities Strategy at VMware . Currently, VMware is the biggest IT company, operating in Bulgaria. In love with math from an early age, Diana Stefanova has a solid background in finance. Her expertise is in the strategic and business development of both startups and global companies. She started her career...

In Episode 8 of The Recursive podcast, Irina meets the Head of Engineering of the American company Product Hunt Rado Stankov. A Bulgarian software engineer, Rado was one of the first employees of Product Hunt who developed into one of the best technical leads in the Silicon Valley. Rado is а frequent guest at tech conferences and podcasts, sharing his knowledge about productivity, product and time...

Episode 7 of The Recursive podcast welcomes a very special guest - motivational speaker, executive coach, and serial entrepreneur Peter Sage. Entrepreneurship is his game, but understanding human behavior, and the psychology of why we do what we do has been his passion for the last 30 years. Peter Sage has been traveling the world, writing books, giving lectures, coaching others, running marathons...

In the sixth episode of The Recursive podcast, we welcome one of the pioneers of technology entrepreneurship in Bulgaria Georgi Kadrev . He’s the co-founder and CEO of image recognition company Imagga and Kelvin Health , а startup building a digital solution for early detection of breast cancer through AI. A software engineer by qualification and a go-getter by nature, Georgi is driven by the aim...

In episode 5 of The Recursive podcast, we welcome the Bulgarian human rights researcher turned social entrepreneur Iva Gumnishka. Only 27 years old, Iva is the founder of Humans in the Loop, a social enterprise aimed at providing refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants with marketable computer skills. Humans in the Loop is specialized in data annotation for the computer vision industry. Their emplo...

In episode 4 of The Recursive podcast, we get inside the mind of the serial entrepreneur and professional coach, and startup advisor Hristo Neychev. Currently, he is a partner at ST6, a company that delivers consulting services in the fields of software development, DevOps, cloud technologies, lean methodologies, and design thinking. In the last decade, he has been an advisor, trainer, and consult...

In episode 3 Irina meets with the Romanian serial entrepreneur and angel investor Mircea Vadan. He’s currently a partner at Activize, a startup scouting and acceleration program in the Romanian and Eastern European ecosystems. Mircea is also a board member and investor in Transylvania Angels Network , an initiative bringing together business people interested in angel investing & mentoring tec...

In episode 2 of The Recursive podcast, we meet with one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the Bulgarian startup community - Svetozar Georgiev - Zarko.  He’s one of the co-founders of Telerik, a dev tools software company that was acquired by Progress for $262.5M back in 2014 - the biggest to this date exit in the local ecosystem. Since then, Zarko has been focusing his efforts on sharin...

The first guest of The Recursive podcast is the co-founder and CEO of Office RnD Miroslav Miroslavov. He created a platform for flexible workspace management and turned into a global company with clients in more than 60 countries and employees on three continents. A software engineer with a drive for entrepreneurship from a very young age, ex-Telerik talent and tennis aficionado, Miroslav shares h...

The first guest of The Recursive podcast is the co-founder of OfficeRnD Miroslav Miroslavov. He created a management platform for flexible workspaces and managed to turn it into a global company with clients in more than 60 countries and employees on three continents.    A software engineer with a drive for entrepreneurship from a very young age, ex-Telerik talent, and tennis aficionado,...

Each week The Recursive podcast will take on a journey inside the mind of a digital economy champion from SouthEast Europe. We’ll dive deep into their personal values and leadership style but also how they’ve developed as entrepreneurs and built their businesses. Before we begin we’d like you to meet our hosts - the co-founder of The Recursive Irina Obushtarova and the founder of The Superhuman po...

Join our hosts Irina and Georgi and get to know the innovation leaders of SouthEast Europe