Meet John Kojiro Moriwaka, aka crazy John. CEO of Silicon Valley Ventures, Director of 3 Startup Grind chapters in Japan Tokyo, Nagoya, and Fukuoka. Besides that, John is a recognized Japanese businessman, columnist, visiting professor, rapper, and painter. He is an advisor to many startups and global companies, venture capital firms, and a mentor in many accelerator programs all around the world.

CONTACT US:
- John's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kojiro-moriwaka-431a334a/
- Archil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Crazy John, nickname origin
02:30 Hip Hop, Painting and Entrepreneurship
06:42 First steps in entrepreneurship
12:02 Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship
15:30 What is Angel Investing?
20:58 What is Venture Capital?
22:28 What are investors looking for?
26:28 Startup Funding Stages
29:50 Japanese Startup Ecosystem
39:12 Silicon Valley Ventures 
40:48 Startup Grind Japan
49:30 Visiting Georgia

In this episode we talked about Dodo, next generation open-source cloud platform Giorgi is building. We explored all the tech details and had an amazing demo.

If you want to get access to Dodo, reach out to us and we will make it happen.

Contact Us:
- Giorgi's Email: [email protected]
- Archil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
03:23 What is Dodo?
08:47 Gitlab vs Dodo
12:08 Dodo as Heroku
13:40 Demo, Creating Service With Dodo App
33:30 Tech Behind Dodo
01:04:50 Outro

Meet Dachi, amazing tech entrepreneur with an incredible success story from his co-founded startup, Pulsar AI. In this episode, we talked a lot about nitty-gritty details of starting a startup. All fresh from Dachi's personal experience.

Don't forget to like, subscribe and tell your friends about archill podcast.

EPISODE LINKS:
- Dachi's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/choladze/
- Archil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Doing Things Alone Isn’t Fun
01:54 Creating Friendly Team Culture
10:05 Founding Pulsar AI
16:35 Landing First Customer Contract
23:05 First Visit to San Francisco: Power of Networking
30:16 Fake It Till You Make It
34:40 Talking to Customers and Collecting Feedback
45:28 Dachi’s Role as CEO
49:10 Dealing with Co-Founders
53:42 Lessons Learned for Future Startup
59:50 Outro

Meet Tibo, cofounder of Tweet Hunter and Taplio. Couple years ago Tibo joined forces with his co-founder, and started to build stuff together. They did this crazy thing and launched new project every week. After shipping more than 10 products, eventually 1 took off, and got acquired for 10 million dollars. Currently working on a startup revid.ai which let's you create viral AI TikTok videos in minutes.

EPISODE LINKS:
- Viral AI TikTok Videos in minutes, revid.ai: https://www.revid.ai/
- Tweet Hunter: https://tweethunter.io/
- Taplio: https://taplio.com/
- Tibo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thibaultll/
- Tibo's Twitter: https://x.com/tibo_maker
- Archil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Starting in Entrepreneurship
04:18 Quitting Job
05:40 Power of Co-Founders
06:53 Shipping 1 Product a Week
08:35 Creating Tweet Hunter
11:38 Partnering with Twitter Influencer
14:22 Surviving Twitter API Blocked Access
19:02 Working on Taplio
23:26 Talking to Users
25:45 No Need for Investments
26:52 Time Management
28:20 Exiting Tweet Hunter and Taplio
33:45 Leaving Tweet Hunter and Taplio
34:48 Acquiring Typeframes, Creating revid.ai
37:08 Validating Ideas On Twitter
39:52 Newsletter Platform
41:30 Acquiring VS Building from scratch
42:52 Outro

Meet Mirian Khomeriki, Head of Engineering at Clientela. Over the years Mirian has occupied different project management positions at various companies. Besides managing engineers, he is an active educator. Constantly giving lectures and mentoring young entrepreneurs.

EPISODE LINKS:
- Mirian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miro-khomeriki-66618558/
- Archil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
01:30 What Makes a Successful Digital Product
08:28 What is Agile?
25:50 The Role of Project Managers
37:38 Managing Stress as Project Managers
46:05 Head of Engineering at Clientela
49:12 Dealing with People, Importance of Empathy
58:36 Outro

Meet Beka, a software engineer at Google. Beka’s had an amazing journey before google. He started from the academy of arts, followed by major in economics. After that he switched to data science and eventually ended up writing his first line of code at the age of 29. 

EPISODE LINKS:
- Beka's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmodebadze/
- Archil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
00:48 From Arts to Software Engineering, journey
05:09 Skills and Experiences for Software Engineering
06:32 Software Engineering as Problem Solving
09:00 Enjoyment in Software Engineering
11:20 Setting Goals and Making Plans
15:32 Applying and Getting at Google
18:08 Google Interview Story
21:47 Working at Google
26:42 Team Switching
29:17 Stress at Google
33:57 Handling Stress
37:23 Failure Culture at Google
44:34 Balancing Work and Personal Life
46:50 Feedback and Performance Evaluation at Google
50:58 Collaboration and Networking
56:00 Learning and Side-Projects
58:29 Non-Tech Interests and Hobbies
01:02:53 Outro

Meet Joe and Stopa, best friends and software engineers with true hacker mentality. After years in big tech they both left Airbnb and decided to build staff together. Currently they are working on a startup called Instant a modern firebase which aims to revolutionize the idea of databases inside browsers. In 2022 Instant joined Y Combinator and is already available to build your next application on it. 

EPISODE LINKS:
- Joe's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeaverbukh/
- Stopa's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stepan-parunashvili-65698932/
- Stopa's Essays: https://stopa.io/
- Job Search Course: https://www.jobsearch.dev/
- Stopa's Zeneca: https://www.zeneca.io/stopa
- Joe's Zeneca: https://www.zeneca.io/joe
- Instant: https://www.instantdb.com/
- Database in the Browser essay: https://stopa.io/post/279

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
00:54 How Joe and Stopa Met
03:05 How to Make Close Friends?
08:18 Doing Hard Things Together, Building Projects
12:28 Building jobsearch.dev
15:47 Balancing Full-Time Job and Side Projects
19:25 Decision of Leaving Airbnb
25:22 Meeting Brian Chesky
29:04 Building Staff After Airbnb
33:21 How to Launch Projects?
36:18 How to Get Project/Startup Ideas?
46:30 What is Database In Browser?
50:56 What is Instant?
52:42 Experience at Y Combinator
57:35 Current State of Instant
01:08:09 Outro

Mark Richards and Neal Ford, two legendary software architects. If you're familiar with literature on software architecture, there's a high chance you've come across books authored by Mark and Neal.
Together, they have co-authored three outstanding books: "Fundamentals of Software Architecture", "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts", and their latest work, "Head First Software Architecture", which is set to release this April. 

EPISODE LINKS:
- Mark's YouTube Channel: @markrichards5014 
- Mark's Personal Page: https://www.developertoarchitect.com/mark-richards.html
- Neal's Personal Page: https://nealford.com/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
00:47 Definition Of Software Architecture
05:28 Building Metaphor
12:49 Monolithic vs Distributed Architectures: Tradeoffs
19:34 Software Architecture vs Software Design
26:30 Why Is Software Architecture Important?
33:27 Bookcase Analogy
40:30 Evolution Of Software Architecture
46:23 Bad Architecture and Refactoring
53:40 Outro

Laur is one of the most amazing Java enthusiasts in the community. Public speaker and Lecturer. Author of the famous books "Spring Security in Action", "Troubleshooting Java" and "Spring Start Here". Laur is widely famous for his youtube channel, where he shares his enormous experience in Java, Spring technologies and Software Engineering in general.

EPISODE LINKS:
- Laur's YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@laurspilca
- Laur's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren%C5%A3iu-spilc%C4%83-01a931107/
- Laur's Personal Page: https://laurspilca.com/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
01:34 Why Still Choose Java?
05:57 Java Evolution
09:18 Java Distributions
11:51 Virtual Threads, Project Loom
20:22 Java Community
22:50 Java Use Cases
25:30 Definition Of Framework
30:48 Spring Framework
34:54 Writing Book “Spring Start Here”
40:01 Book Writing Process
45:38 Sharing Knowledge, Educating
48:32 Youtube Channel
54:28 Laur’s Primary Job
56:36 Outro

🔗 CONNECT WITH ME:
- Archil Sharashenidze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

Franck has been in database industry for about 30 years now. He's worked at places like IBM, Air France and CERN. Currently Franck is a developer advocate at Yugabyte, a company behind YugabyteDB, the open source, distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Database Evolution
02:10 Databases 20 Years Ago
06:30 How Postgres Stores Data
10:10 How Select Works In Postgres 
13:20 How Select Works With Index
15:15 Atomicity In ACID
19:32 Consistency In ACID
20:46 Isolation In ACID
21:35 Durability In ACID
22:26 ACID Real Example, Optimistic And Pessimistic
25:37 Transactions, Redo Logs
31:35 Relational vs NoSql
38:01 How NoSql Stores Data
41:50 ACID In NoSql
44:32 What Are Distributed Databases?
48:05 Use Cases Of Distributed Databases
54:30 Multi-Region Distributed Database 
56:50 Architecture Of YugabyteDB
01:01:46 Raft Consensus, Leader Election
01:04:22 Indexes In YugabyteDB
01:09:07 Summary

🔗 CONNECT WITH US:
- Archil Sharashenidze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/
- Franck Pachot on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franckpachot/