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Codewise (Voluum & Zeropark) - 3rd fastest growing company EMEA! (26)

12-21-2016 05:57 AM #1 rob_gryn (Member)
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12-21-2016 08:14 AM #2 evy123 (AMC Alumnus)

Good job! Congrats

12-21-2016 08:41 AM #3 cbrughmans (Member)

Truly an amazing story Rob. And there's still SO much potential for you guys! Keep it up.

12-21-2016 05:48 PM #4 rob_gryn (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by cbrughmans View Post
Truly an amazing story Rob. And there's still SO much potential for you guys! Keep it up.
Thanks dude, I appreciate it! Super excited about next year

12-21-2016 06:03 PM #5 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by rob_gryn View Post
Thanks dude, I appreciate it! Super excited about next year
What's the plan for 2017? Joining the league of Zuckerberg or Gates? Congrats on your success!

12-21-2016 07:38 PM #6 kokofai ()

Congrats once again! Robert the upcoming billionaire

12-21-2016 07:53 PM #7 Spacey in Space (Member)

Congrats Robert! Love seeing the growth man!

12-22-2016 12:47 PM #8 rob_gryn (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by matuloo View Post
What's the plan for 2017? Joining the league of Zuckerberg or Gates? Congrats on your success!
Hahah.. funny you say that.. the Polish media which are starting to pick up on our story (as we've kept our heads down for years) have on several occasions referred to me as the Polish Zuckerberg.. it's not so difficult relatively speaking to earn that title in PL though! Also.. I'm not sure if I like it :P

Cheers!

Quote Originally Posted by kokofai View Post
Congrats once again! Robert the upcoming billionaire
Polische Einhorn! Maybe next year, definitely depending on the currency

See you in Vegas?

12-22-2016 02:15 PM #9 affiliaxegcohen (Member)

Awesome job, Congrats Robert!

12-23-2016 05:30 AM #10 affpayinggao (Veteran Member)

Great job! Congrats Robert!

12-24-2016 02:11 AM #11 erikgyepes (Moderator)

Congrats on this great achievement and happy holidays to the whole Codewise team!

12-24-2016 08:26 AM #12 crysper (Member)

Love this!

12-24-2016 09:07 PM #13 manuovi (Member)

Congratulations!! amazing inspiring story!

12-28-2016 08:19 AM #14 rob_gryn (Member)

Cheers guys, I appreciate the kind words - and again, thanks for the support! Big and exciting things to come in 2017

12-28-2016 09:28 AM #15 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by rob_gryn View Post
Hahah.. funny you say that.. the Polish media which are starting to pick up on our story (as we've kept our heads down for years) have on several occasions referred to me as the Polish Zuckerberg.. it's not so difficult relatively speaking to earn that title in PL though! Also.. I'm not sure if I like it :P
Yup, definitely see what you mean, I'm just in the neigbour country to yours - Slovakia - so I know it's not so hard to stand out in terms of internet entrepreneurship in this part of the world Even thou Codewise would stand out in the western world by now anyways

12-28-2016 09:46 AM #16 rob_gryn (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by matuloo View Post
Yup, definitely see what you mean, I'm just in the neigbour country to yours - Slovakia - so I know it's not so hard to stand out in terms of internet entrepreneurship in this part of the world Even thou Codewise would stand out in the western world by now anyways
Stop it, you're making me blush! Thanks Matuloo

We gotta put this part of the world on the map of innovation! We got Avast from CZ but that's about it. We're not just good at making pierogies and eating potatoes and bryndzove halushky (delicious btw!) :P

12-28-2016 10:25 AM #17 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by rob_gryn View Post
Stop it, you're making me blush! Thanks Matuloo

We gotta put this part of the world on the map of innovation! We got Avast from CZ but that's about it. We're not just good at making pierogies and eating potatoes and bryndzove halushky (delicious btw!) :P
There are more, for example Eset in Slovakia is huge, there is also the company behind the Sygic GPS navigation and we also have a pretty large mobile game studios : Pixel Federation and InLOgic are the biggest ones ... there are more companies of course, but these are the most known ones, I'm sure you heard of some too.

12-28-2016 10:38 AM #18 rob_gryn (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by matuloo View Post
There are more, for example Eset in Slovakia is huge, there is also the company behind the Sygic GPS navigation and we also have a pretty large mobile game studios : Pixel Federation and InLOgic are the biggest ones ... there are more companies of course, but these are the most known ones, I'm sure you heard of some too.
Sorry, I guess I was thinking in terms of Unicorns as that's what gets attention these days (sadly) - you are absolutely right, there are quite a few!

12-28-2016 12:47 PM #19 Advidi_com (Senior Member)

Congratulations, amazing progress in such a short time! Love your approach to running a business - put people first and the profits will follow.

12-28-2016 04:57 PM #20 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by rob_gryn View Post
Sorry, I guess I was thinking in terms of Unicorns as that's what gets attention these days (sadly) - you are absolutely right, there are quite a few!
Eset and Sygic both are kind of unicorns too, as far as I know, both are self funded and developed their own products that reached world wide success. Then again, I didnt really lookup a definition of a unicorn in terms of business, so I might be wrong

12-29-2016 06:19 AM #21 rob_gryn (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by matuloo View Post
Eset and Sygic both are kind of unicorns too, as far as I know, both are self funded and developed their own products that reached world wide success. Then again, I didnt really lookup a definition of a unicorn in terms of business, so I might be wrong
The definition of a unicorn is being valued at $1B+ by either a funding round or an IPO - essentially a valuation determined by external investors. Some companies (such as Codewise) do not seek outside investment and as such do not have an 'official' valuation until they do so. Other companies do sketchy shit to avoid taxes and as such are not considered as they do not disclose their financials - even though in theory they may be worth over $1B. I couldn't find any information about funding rounds for ESET or Sygic or them being publicly listed.

In Poland, there's an amazing company called CD Projekt, developers who made the Witcher games, their market cap is well over $1B, but.. they're owned (50%) by another corporation which disqualifies them.

Then there is LiveChat which makes, quite literally what its name states. They have a market cap of $300M.. with revenues and an EBITDA far lower than ours

It's all a bit fickle.. but it's the way it works.

01-03-2017 01:10 PM #22 dr_ngo ()

Hey Robert,

You posted a picture on your Facebook a year ago.

It was a status update from yourself where you were nervous about quitting your job.

Such a powerful post because you started off just like everyone else, but took things to multiple levels in such a short amount of time.

Thanks for inspiring me.

01-03-2017 04:19 PM #23 buck johnson (Member)

Your doing a great job, keep it going.

01-04-2017 07:01 AM #24 rob_gryn (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by dr_ngo View Post
Hey Robert,

You posted a picture on your Facebook a year ago.

It was a status update from yourself where you were nervous about quitting your job.

Such a powerful post because you started off just like everyone else, but took things to multiple levels in such a short amount of time.

Thanks for inspiring me.
I appreciate it Charles! I remember that post.. found it for reference. it was less than 6 years ago that I quit my job. Boggles my mind looking back, I had little to no idea what I was doing then.. just went with my gut feeling that affiliate marketing would take me places!

01-04-2017 10:40 PM #25 clickright ()

Congrats Robert!

01-04-2017 10:55 PM #26 clickright ()

Quote Originally Posted by dr_ngo View Post
You posted a picture on your Facebook a year ago.

It was a status update from yourself where you were nervous about quitting your job.

Such a powerful post because you started off just like everyone else, but took things to multiple levels in such a short amount of time.
That reminds me of Jan Koum and Brian Acton before launching WhatsApp.

Jan Koum posted on FlyerTalk asking for feedback on his new iPhone app (WhatsApp) in 2009:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-whatsapp.html

Brian Acton tweeted about FB turning him down in 2009 (before joining WhatsApp):
https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/3109544383

5 years later they sold WhatsApp to FB for ~$19 billion USD.

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