Podbit · The iGaming Leader
Savvas draws a hard line between first-principle thinkers who deconstruct problems from the ground up, and people who say 'this worked there, it'll work here.' MrQ's interview process tests for this directly — if you can't name the last time you found an unconventional route to solve a problem, you're not a fit.
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From the story of MrQ's origin, Savvas pivots to the broader pattern of the entrepreneurial mindset. He acknowledges that the same energy that launched a company — 'How hard can it be?' — is also the energy that led him to impulsively win a 20,000 square-foot Crown Prosecution Service building in St Albans, only needing 5,000 of it, and then decide to turn the rest into a co-working space on a whim. The self-awareness is genuine: shiny objects are fun, and entrepreneurs are wired to want to fix things and prove they can buck trends. But he's learned to be more disciplined about it. On the ADHD question — Leo asks whether Savvas is super focused or more scattered — Savvas is honest: he gets distracted easily, has ADHD, and doesn't medicate. His best work happens when his back is against the wall. The people around him, particularly his CFO, have better focus than he does, and that structural support is what keeps the business on track when Savvas's instincts might pull it sideways.
MrQ has approximately 202 employees, as counted by Savvas from his Slack channel.
MrQ's CMO was only 25 years old and came from outside the iGaming industry, yet successfully reorganised the entire marketing function.
Savvas rejects the idea of a tangible competitive secret sauce. The real edge is having a crystal-clear mission, a defined vision, and values that function as the first-principles framework for every daily decision. Without that, you're a brand stuck in the middle.
Perfecting a product for months guarantees nothing. The Starter Story founder pressed publish on his meticulously crafted site and watched zero users arrive — the brutal lesson every founder needs to hear.
The world's best companies didn't buy their first customers — they went to where those customers already were and created content for them. Free channels like Reddit aren't a hack; they're the actual strategy.
A single link post on Reddit drove 100 visitors to Starter Story in minutes. Then the moderators deleted it. That deletion became the catalyst for a far smarter strategy.
Redditors hate spam — so stop looking like spam. By putting all his content directly into a self-post and adding only a tiny footer link, the Starter Story founder made his marketing invisible to moderators and irresistible to readers.
Going from zero engagement to hundreds of upvotes overnight isn't luck — it's product-market fit. When your content makes strangers ask for more, you've found something real.
Reddit traffic is borrowed. An email list is owned. The Starter Story founder built tens of thousands of subscribers before Reddit banned him — meaning the platform's death sentence didn't matter.
After interviewing thousands of successful founders, one pattern repeats: they all built something, got ignored, and then figured out distribution. Building was never the hard part — getting in front of customers was.
Spend 80% of your landing page design time above the fold. The hero section is the only thing most visitors will ever truly read, so it needs to deliver your full message instantly.
Avnish grew his solo business to $25,000 per month in just 15 months without spending a dollar on ads. His entire growth engine was built on community posts in Reddit and Facebook groups.
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