Next on The Recursive podcast we welcome one of the most prominent executives and pioneers in the IT industry in Bulgaria.

Ivaylo Slavov is a citizen of the world. Having a long and successful corporate career in Germany, he came back to Bulgaria more than 15 years ago to help set up the first nearshore IT operations for American giants like HP.

10 years ago he started his own company BULPROS and quickly turned it into one of the fastest-growing IT companies in Central Europe. Last year BULPROS merged with the German company ec4u. Together they aim to become the digital cloud services leader in Europe. Their new company DIGITALL is now set to conquer the US market.

In his conversation with Irina, Ivaylo Slavov gives an overview of his versatile management experiences from the boom of the dot-com era in the late 90s, to building the Bulgarian ecosystem from scratch ten years later, and taking his business ventures to global success.

In this episode you’ll also hear:

Why learning to be loyal is one of the toughest lessons you learn as a leader;
What is the key for successful integration between merging companies (“You can miss the opportunities to use the best things of a culture or a company if you go and say my way is better.”)
What does Bulgaria need to scale and become a global brand for innovation;

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