Dimitri Dadiomov
Co-Founder & President, Modern Treasury. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Dimitri Dadiomov is the co-founder and president of Modern Treasury. He previously served as the company's chief executive officer.
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Everything Dimitri Dadiomov said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Dadiomov: Companies rarely die of competition, they die of suicide
“Very, it's very rare at least that companies die of homicide. They usually die of suicide. Companies usually mess up in some way that is actually just, It's very internal. So when you read a lot of business books, I think people talk about like competition, bu…”
Dadiomov: Companies underinvest in payment systems because they aren't core competencies
“And it's one of these things that's really not core competency for most of the companies I was talking to, and so they couldn't justify the right, like, level of investment, and at the same time, it was, like, the same thing that they all needed.”
Mid-sized companies have too much internal inertia to buy from early startups
“Like very quickly we realized these companies would not, they would have too much inertia internally to actually sign up with a small startup.”
Dadiomov: Payment operations was not recognized as a software category pre-Modern Treasury
“Payment operations was not, Really a topic that people talked about. Obviously it was present in a lot of places, but nobody thought about that in a, or talked about publicly, at least in in like a software category kind of way.”
Modern Treasury builds all features for both API and manual UI
“So one of the design principles that we've had is everything we build is available in both the API and the UI, and you can do things by hand or you can automate them, but there's nothing is going to be a hundred percent automated. The world is going to be like…”
Modern Treasury waited two years before hiring its first salesperson
“We did not have a sales team for a long time. We kind of invested more heavily in marketing upfront and we brought, and we've got a lot of inbound leads coming from content, coming from bank referrals, coming from other activities that we're doing. And so it r…”
Dadiomov: Customer feature requests naturally converge into minor product variations
“Like when you get feature requests in the beginning, they seem to be kind of random and they seem to be kind of all over the place. And as you talk to more customers and you do more product discovery, you discover like more and more of the feature requests are…”
Dadiomov: Early founders spend too much time on business over product
“At the end of the day, I think early stage founders think, Spend too much time thinking about the business and not enough time thinking about the product.”
Modern Treasury built its MVP in ten weeks and launched in five
“It probably took us about 10 weeks to build the MVP in a functional way. And then, you know, it took us about five months total to go live with the first customer.”
Modern Treasury founders mapped every operational task to explicit decision-making owners
“We kind of wrote out on a spreadsheet, like all the things that we had to take care of as a founding team, just like anything from like, you know, run payroll and do taxes to like set up the AWS kind of instance to be able to do customer service once we have c…”
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 a16zLEDGER | Co-Founder & President, Modern Treasury | 1 | 10 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |