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Founder Playbook.
How deep-tech actually gets built — the focus calls, the grant-and-accelerator path, hiring, and the unglamorous decisions behind a decade of company-building. No survivorship-bias hype.
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017 MIN·UPDATED · SEP 2026Pięć lat po liście Forbesa „25 przed 25”: co takie wyróżnienie naprawdę zmienia
Trzy listy Forbesa w ciągu czterech lat, a obok nich FT1000, GENIUS NY i zielona karta EB-1A. Co takie wyróżnienie realnie zmienia w firmie, a czego nie zmieni nigdy.
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026 MIN·UPDATED · SEP 2026Five Years After Forbes 25 Under 25: What the List Actually Changed
Forbes Poland put me on its 25 Under 25 list in 2020. What the five years after it changed, what they didn't, and the record behind it.
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038 MIN·UPDATED · SEP 2026Why We License RoboSoccer Instead of Manufacturing It
RoboSoccer is finished and plays well on film, and we still won't manufacture it. A co-founder on why we license it, openly and non-exclusively, to US partners.
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048 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026What I'd Tell Myself at 22, Starting a Company Over
Honest founder advice written against my own failures, not my wins — survivorship bias, the real cost of learning in hardware, and why AI changes the math now.
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058 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Credibility as a Young, Immigrant, First-Time Founder
I started at 21 in a country whose language I barely spoke, with no network. Credibility for a founder like that is accumulated, not claimed — one checkable proof point at a time.
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068 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Cervi to Dronehub: What a Pivot and Rebrand Really Cost
Renaming Cervi Robotics to Dronehub took an afternoon. Becoming a product company — turning down ~€3M of services work — took years and real money.
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078 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Why Deep-Tech Takes a Decade: Surviving the Middle
Hardware autonomy is a ten-year arc, not an 18-month sprint. Here is why the timeline is real and how I survived the unglamorous middle years.
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089 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Hiring Real Engineers as a No-Name Startup in a Small City
How we recruited an engineering team good enough to coordinate an EU Horizon project from Rzeszow, with no brand, no coastal address, and no salary war chest.
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098 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026I Turned Down €3M of Work to Bet on One Product
In 2020 we declined roughly €3M of outsourcing revenue to put everything behind one autonomous drone platform. Here is the anatomy of that focus decision.
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109 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026How Grants Funded My Drone Hardware Company
I built an autonomous-drone hardware company on ESA contracts, a Horizon 2020 grant, and an EDA study before any priced round. Here is the actual sequence.
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