Hiring is Broken. Inside Techstars-Backed Startup Recrewty with Founder Danilo Đukanović

Most companies don't lose their best people loudly. They lose them quietly - to roles that went to an outside hire, to a manager who didn't know who was ready, to a succession plan that lived in a slide nobody updated.Danilo Đukanović saw this problem early in his career - and turned it into a mission.He's the CEO and Co-founder of Recrewty - a Techstars-backed workforce intelligence platform that helps companies map internal mobility, succession, and workforce readiness using behavioral science and AI. Trusted by banks, telecoms, and retailers across the region.He went from Montenegro to Techstars in Italy to the US through YTILI - proving that world-class companies can be built right here in the Balkans.In this episode we cover:→ The painful interview that sparked Recrewty→ How behavioral science and AI eliminate hiring guesswork→ Scaling a global HR tech startup from Montenegro→ What Techstars Italy actually looks like from the inside→ His experience with Scale SEE Accelerator→ Ethical AI in hiring - opportunity or risk?→ How the US startup ecosystem reshaped his mindset on speed and ambition→ The moonshot vision for Recrewty in the next 5–10 years