#160 | A Serial Founder’s Story: What It Really Takes to Build, Fail, and Scale in the AI Era w/ Łukasz Łażewski @LLInformatics

▶︎ #160 | A Serial Founder’s Story: What It Really Takes to Build, Fail, and Scale in the AI Era w/ Łukasz Łażewski @LLInformaticsIn this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex sits down with Łukasz Łażewski,  CEO of LLInformatics and one of the most experienced serial Founders in the Polish and European tech ecosystem. Łukasz's career reads like a masterclass in reinvention: from a software engineer in Dublin and Berlin, through a string of startups. A used cars marketplace, an early influencer marketing platform, and Zenloop, a customer insights SaaS that grew into a major B2B player, to his current role advising private equity and family offices on how to extract real technology value from their portfolios. He built a 120-person company almost by accident, alongside his Co-Founder Mariusz, turning technical due diligence work into a full-scale advisory firm.What makes Łukasz's perspective distinctive is that he has lived every stage of the startup lifecycle: product-market fit failures, investor misalignment, COVID pivots, and eventual exits, and come out of it with sharp, unsentimental clarity on what actually matters. He brings that same lens to his work at LLInformatics, helping investment portfolios navigate the shift from manual processes to AI-driven operations.The conversation covers serious ground for tech leaders and founders alike. Łukasz shares his unfiltered take on the AI and junior developer debate, rejecting both the gloom and the hype, and making a compelling case for the rise of the cross-domain generalist. He breaks down why so many layoffs attributed to AI are actually post-COVID financial course corrections with a convenient scapegoat. And he offers three concrete pieces of advice for early-stage Founders: validate relentlessly before you build, embed yourself in communities of fellow Founders, and develop the emotional muscle to separate rejection of your idea from rejection of you as a person.If you're building something, leading a team through uncertainty, or standing at a career crossroads, this one is worth your full attention.✔︎ Mentioned in the episode:“Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win”✉︎ FOLLOW ŁUKASZ ON: ⤵︎LinkedIn: @lukasz-lazewski/X: @lukasz_lazewski✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanskaTikTok: @aleksandra_lemanskaX: @lemanskillsStartup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scpwww.lemanskills.comJoin Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/