Damir
# A remarkable entrepreneur who changed how I think about my career
Bgo understands something that many of us are scared to admit: ultimately, our success depends on us. And success doesn't have to mean building a billion-dollar AI company. There is genuine, valuable work all around us. You can solve real problems for businesses in your own community, create something people are willing to pay for, make a meaningful impact, and build a very comfortable life doing it. Pretty simple on the outside. On the inside? Not so easy. And I've realized that, at least for me, the biggest obstacle was often myself. This is where Bgo comes in. Bgo has remarkable business judgment and entrepreneurial instinct, but what distinguishes him is his ability to make entrepreneurship feel concrete. He doesn't just talk about ideas. He looks at a problem and asks: Who needs this? What can we build? How do we make it useful? How do we turn it into a business? Our conversations pushed me to rethink what I wanted from the next stage of my career—not simply another position, but the opportunity to build things, take ownership, solve real problems, and pursue ideas where technology can create genuine business value. What I didn't expect was how much influence that connection would have on me personally. For a long time, I think I was afraid to seek out bigger challenges on my own. I had accumulated experience and knew how to solve difficult technical problems, but there is a big difference between knowing that you *can* build something and deciding that you are actually going to do it. Bgo became the catalyst I needed to cross that line. One conversation in particular stayed with me. I told him, essentially, "I could copy your model." I half expected him to become protective of what he had built. Instead, his response was basically: **Absolutely. There is plenty to go around.** That tells you a great deal about him. There was no scarcity mentality and no attempt to guard some secret formula. His instinct was to encourage me to go build. There are plenty of businesses with real problems, plenty of people who need good technology, and plenty of opportunity for people willing to do genuine work. And then he challenged me to actually do it. That challenge had consequences. I started seeking out entrepreneurial work I might previously have hesitated to pursue. I began talking seriously with people about problems I could help solve. I embraced modern agentic coding systems and discovered that the economics and speed of building software had changed dramatically. Ideas that once would have required a team and significant capital suddenly became things I could prototype and put into production myself. In other words, Bgo didn't give me an idea. He changed my sense of what was possible. His patience throughout this has been enormous, as is his genuine desire to see his fellow founders succeed. He is generous with what he knows, generous with encouragement, and remarkably willing to help other people find their own path rather than convincing them to follow his. I've spent many years in technology and data science, so I don't say this lightly: it is rare to meet someone who materially changes the direction in which you are moving. Bgo did that for me. I'm genuinely grateful our paths crossed.