From Garage to Google & Beyond: Zazmic’s CTO on Building a Tech Powerhouse

Arham: Hello everyone, welcome to an episode of the Zazmic podcast. I have with me the founding member and Chief Technical Officer of Zazmic, Yann Kronberg. Yann, why don’t you tell us a bit about your journey of building Zazmic from a garage in San Francisco in 2013 to a 500-plus employee, multi-million dollar global tech company? And why did you even do this?

Yann: I didn’t really have a plan. When we started with Yuri back in the day, we simply loved building software and businesses. Our rapid growth came from working with Bay Area startups that were successful, and we’ve been lucky enough to be associated with them. Our oldest client and our first startup, Mercury, is now a 35 million euro business. We started with one project and 20 people, then expanded to more projects and 50 people. And we just never stopped. We never looked back. We didn’t have a plan. We just wanted to be good at software and help people build companies. That’s what our plan was, and it worked. Later on, Google came along and that partnership helped us grow even faster.

Arham: The first few years of any business are crucial. There’s something like an 80% failure rate. Yet, you scaled Zazmic from zero to 200 employees in those first years. What were the key reasons for yo