Reinventing myself | Davor Runje | TEDxZagreb

Every seven years, I change my career completely. So far, I’ve co-founded a globally successful startup, had a fruitful scientific career, co-founded one of the most awarded digital agencies in Croatia, and am currently building a global AI startup. I follow trends and when I feel a new technology wave could shake not just the IT industry, but our society in general, I start a business and I try to use my talents to make a positive difference in this world. When I reach the limit of my abilities, I look for someone who can develop the business further, while I restart my career again. This process keeps me globally very competitive, but most importantly, it enables me to find joy and fulfillment in my work again. Davor is a seasoned software engineer, computer scientists and serial entrepreneur. Most recently, he co-founded ZASTI, an Artificial Intelligence startup building a proprietary platform solving problems in multiple domains. Prior to that, he co-founded DRAP in 2008, one of the most awarded digital agencies in Croatia, acquired in 2018 by Imago Ogilvy. Back in 1997, he co-founded PlayMedia Systems, the
leading provider of AMP MP3 playback technology on the global market where he invented and lead development of several DRM based and DRM free systems for digital audio distribution based of AMP® MP3 decoding engine for clients including DMX Music, STMicroelectronics and Napster.
He’s the author of 15 publications in theoretical computer science and
one US patent. He received the SSCLI and Phoenix 2005 award by Microsoft Research as one of the best 16 research projects in international competition. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx