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Sramana Mitra:: Talk about the two projects. Nikita Sherbina: I was working in an AI-enabled tool company. It was for marketing and sales people. It helped
Sramana Mitra: Was it just you and your Ukrainian developers at this point? Nikita Sherbina: No. One was a developer and the other was a designer. I'm the
Sramana Mitra: How did you get your first customer? It sounds like you had a personal experience as well as observed experience of identifying the problem. How
This is a classic bootstrapping story with a very small team to serious revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background? Nikita Sherbina: I was born and raised in Ukraine. I moved to the United States about six years ago without knowing anything about this land. Sramana Mitra: Do you still have a lot of family in Ukraine now? Nikita Sherbina: All of my family moved six years ago. We moved together. I do know people there whom I've known for a long time. Sramana Mitra: Talk about your career. You came here six years ago to what part of the United States? Nikita Sherbina: I moved to Arizona. We started our first startup there. Sramana Mitra: Are you educated in Ukraine? Nikita Sherbina: I did not get my education fully because we started doing startups. I dropped out of college. Sramana Mitra: In the US, you started doing a design studio in Arizona. That was your