Simon Belak

“The most impactful thing you can do for yourself and your company is regular, deliberate and systematic half-hour introspection every week!”

Simon Belak is a philosopher slash hacker and the head of analytics at the Slovenian Startup of the Year 2021 winner, Bird Buddy. He used to be chief analytics and revenue officer at GoOpti International, and a mad scientist at Metabase, an open-source analytics and business intelligence application. He is also the founder of Hekovnik, a startup school and a business accelerator. Simon is happily surfing in the ever-shifting space spanned by computers, philosophy and theatre. You can also listen to him as a regular guest on many business podcasts, one of the recent ones being for Beyond Leadership Slovenia, where he shared his brilliant business and life philosophy with the rest of us.