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From Founder to CEO: Building, Letting Go and Leading in the Age of AI with Evgeny Shadchnev

Behind the SME with Evgeny Shadchnev, Founder of Makers, CEO coach and author specialising in leadership transitions.

In this episode of Behind the SME, host Adam Kene sits down with Evgeny Shadchnev, founder of Makers and one of the UK’s most respected voices on founder-to-CEO transitions, to unpack the real journey of building, scaling and ultimately stepping away from a high-growth startup.

Evgeny shares how his background in computer science and early career as a software developer led him to spot a major gap between academia and industry - sparking the creation of Makers, a pioneering…

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