Technology Roulette
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Oleksandr Kovalchuk, co-founder and CTO of Cargofy, describes how his logistics startup repeatedly tried adopting new technologies (a “technological roulette”), sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. He presents concrete lessons learned from those experiments and explains criteria for distinguishing valuable innovations from risky experiments when evolving a product.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:11Tech roulette risks
- 5:03Rigid tech failures
- 8:40Startup tech experiments
- 13:14Market lag effects
- 19:18Mapbox navigation failure
- 26:43War-driven tech shifts
- 30:38Balancing experiments and stability
- 36:14AI for cost savings
- 43:16Team tech training
- 47:10Summary & Q&A
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