#26 What it really takes to build a tech product team with Yaniv Bernstein from Airtasker.

Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products and a better version of yourself.Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.Building a FinTech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult. In today's competitive environment, you just can't afford to get your tech wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team,  closing your next round, and making the impact that you need to make.This is where we can help,With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner. We’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.Today my guest Yaniv Bernstein and I'm really excited about today's theme. We are going to be discussing what it really takes to build a tech team for your product.Yaniv completed his PhD in Computer science in 2006 and then went to work at Google as a software engineering manager for 5 years on the youtube team.He then did a stint at IBM for just over a year before going back to google for another 4 years this time to work on the google maps team.In May 2018 Yaniv joined the Airtasker team as VP of engineering and then in March 2020 he became COO and that is his current focus and where it would appear he has found his area of genius.Airtasker is an AUS based scaleup that connects experts to get the job done across almost any task that you can think of. They have raised over $25m in funding to date and are set for an IPO in the very near future.Their team is around 100 strong and growing.Yaniv also has a newsletter called WTFisaCOO which delivers weekly insights into organizational leadership in tech and beyond.Welcome, Yaniv it is great to have you on the show.                                                                   *******************************If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals.