Vlad Malanin
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Podcast Appearances
We were less than two months of the runaway.
Some people were drafted to the army.
There was the ongoing war in Ukraine where our R&D stayed.
So we were panicking.
The first decision we made is even before that happens, we stopped all the salaries to both of the founders.
Like enables your built-in mechanism of survival because you know that, okay, they may have no salary in two months, but we do not have it already today.
100% no.
It's definitely worth way more than that.
So Speak Size basically does something that is in one or two sentences, we do AI media compression, even one sentence.
Yeah, it is.
Because the more we live, the bigger data becomes, especially the modern rich media websites with a lot of videos.
And as you mentioned, all those 360 animations, here are videos, product videos, all that.
And it's not only about the fact of using that kind of media per se, it's also the fact that you need to maintain the quality and brands care about that a lot.
Yeah, we have around 200 customers, and most of them, as you can imagine, they're fashion brands, clothing, apparel, this kind of industry, however, not limited.
We also work with travel industry, we work with jewelry, we work with marketplaces, so all that kind of, I would say, general e-commerce with a focus on fashion brands mostly.
So Crocs specifically, we don't work with their main location.
So with Crocs specifically, we work with the Israel subdivision, their official retailer, WeShoes.
And WeShoes is the biggest shoes retail.
Can you spell it?
Just WeShoes.co.il.