I got interested in startups in the early 2010s as a university student. I lived with a small group of mighty engineers, and we spent nights and weekends building, winning hackathons, and shipping everything from mobile games to early MLOps tools. I was a mediocre coder (as most LSE students) and took over product, UX, and growth.

None of those projects really took off. Yet, they gave me a feel for the 0-to-1 journey and how an idea becomes a real product. I left London to join a startup in Greece, and for about 6 years, I worked as a Product Manager at two of the region’s fastest-growing companies, Workable and Blueground.

I led teams of engineers and data scientists, built software products, and, most importantly, learned a ton by watching from the inside as two early-stage ventures scaled to tens of millions in revenue globally. I had worked for startups in Greece all those years, but outside our small bubble, few people realized Greece was a place where world-class startups were being built.

In 2020, I started an anonymous Twitter persona as Startup Pirate, writing about Greek tech and how I saw the startup world. What began as a fun side project quickly became a community reference point, featuring news, founder interviews, resources, and job posts.

That soon led me to meet George and Panos, and we clicked quickly. I joined Marathon’s investment team while doubling down on our fund's community-building efforts. With our third fund now launched, I stepped up as a Partner to keep building Marathon together.