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Stratis Karamanlakis is VP:Development/Co-Founder at Odesk Corp. See Stratis Karamanlakis's compensation, career history, education, & memberships.
- VP:Development/Co-Founder
- Odesk Corp
Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male. LinkedIn View on LinkedIn. With more than a decade of experience in software engineering, Stratis currently leads a global team of oDesk software engineers spread across Europe, Asia, and North America.
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As a founder of oDesk—which has since evolved into Upwork—Stratis Karamanlakis has had a front seat view of Upwork’s evolution. In this article, which is part of a series from Upwork Engineering, he talks about Upwork’s journey from fledgling startup to the largest website for freelancers, with a community of more than 17 million worldwide.
- Wall Street to Entrepreneurship
- The Merger
- Starting Gupshup
- The Three Mistakes
Beerud was at Wall Street when the internet was just booming. Companies like Amazon, eBay, and Google were making headlines, and Beerud did not want to miss this opportunity. But soon, the market was in the midst of a currency crisis and the Wall Street was in a lot of turmoil and disruption. During that time, Beerud was either investing in public ...
The trio started Elance in Sanjay’s two-bedroom apartment, which served as an office during the day. The company then grew to a team of 20 employees. For its initial users, Beerud reached out to his juniors from IIT Bombay and offered them freelance projects during their internships. In 2014, Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakisstarted a comp...
After leaving Elance, Beerud was approached by Rakesh Mathur, an accomplished entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley. The duo came together around 2014-15, and started Webaroo, an offline search engine. The idea didn’t work and the team pivoted the startup. Gupshup was almost like Twitter. However, Gupshup was way ahead of its time. First, it was subsi...
Speaking about the three mistakes of his life that Beerud would advise his children to not commit, he says, “Get started on the entrepreneurial journey for the right reasons.” One cannot take the route to simply make money. Thus, one should start up only if they are extremely passionate and excited about the cause. Secondly, one would need grit, pe...
Jul 20, 2018 · Odysseas’ first entrepreneurial venture was born out of nostalgia and pain, from being away from his school friend, ‘Stratis Karamanlakis’. While working at Intacct Corp., in the United States, Tsatalos tried to convince Karamanlakis to come and join him at Intacct Corp., which did not work out.
Founders: Stratis Karamanlakis, Odysseas Tsatalos. Design thinking 101. Design Thinking is an approach to creative problem solving championed by the Stanford D-School and well known design consultancies like IDEO. It involves 4 main phases: 1. Discovery.
