How to build a translation company

Sergiu Matei, TRAVOD, European Founder, International Founders, Lifestyle Business

Today’s guest created a translation service that he built into a really incredible company. Because of it, he got lots of other opportunities. He’s doing Startup Grind in Europe; he is even investing in other startups.

Sergiu Matei is the founder of TRAVOD, an online or professional translation service.

Basically, he’s got one of these really successful companies that’s giving him a lot of freedom to do a lot of things including travel to San Francisco where I met him.

I invited him here to talk about how he did it.

You can check out the article Matei wrote on Startup Grind here.

Sergiu Matei

TRAVOD

Sergiu Matei is the founder of TRAVOD, an online or professional translation service.

Andrew: Hey there freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. So check this out. I was sitting outside of, frankly, outside of a Regus office here in San Francisco in their garden making use of their WiFi, drinking tea and working feverishly. And my tea ran out so I went upstairs, I got a little more tea, I might have even recharged my computer for a little bit, came back downstairs, and as I was going to sit down in the garden, this guy comes up to me and he says, “Andrew, I’m a big Mixergy fan. I saw you were a little bit crazed earlier the way you were working, so I didn’t want to interrupt, but now that you’re coming back and you seem like you’re in a calmer space, I want to say hi and introduce myself.” And he says, “My name is Sergiu Matei.” I don’t think I’m going to be able to do justice to the pronunciation...

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