The First Bulgarian Unicorn: Productivity Mastery #102 with Hristo Borisov

In episode #102 of Productivity Mastery, we welcomed Hristo Borisov, the co-founder and CEO of the first-ever Bulgarian Unicorn-status company! Starting a business in this part of Europe can be quite challenging, which has made Hristo’s success even more impressive (by the way, he is on the cover of the Forbes magazine at the time of the podcast recording). 

In his conversation with Stoyan, Hristo shared with us a broad range of lessons from his entrepreneurial journey, fascinating stories that lead him to success, and various principles of day-to-day work, including:

💡 Hiring the top 1% of your company,

💡 How to build a customer-success oriented company culture,

💡 A founder’s journey is like a rollercoaster,

💡 How your product is the key to becoming a Unicorn, and much more!

Hristo Borisov is the CEO and co-founder of Payhawk. Founded in 2018, Payhawk is a leader in B2B payments and expense management. The company's mission is to become the world's biggest bank without holding a single dollar. Businesses from 27 countries actively use Payhawk credit cards and payment products to save time and money managing their company expenses. With a strong engineering and product background, Hristo spent 11 years leading cloud and mobile products at Progress.

Hristo studied both Computer Science and Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria and has developed a patent-pending technology for declarative programming techniques to create conversational intelligence for a chatbot.

Enjoy listening and stay #productive!