Collaborative With Spencer Krause - E12 - Dmitry Krivochenitser (Product Startup COO / CFO)

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Dimitry Krivochenitser is the CFO and COO of Xena Workware. His wife, Ana, is the CEO.

Xena was the first company to bring a stylish safety-rated workboot for women to market. This offering is long-overdue and it took a lot of grit and hard work to bring it to fruition. You can find out more about Xena's stylish workboots here: https://xenaworkwear.com/

For those of you who do not know, a good COO (or manager, or director, or VP of Operations) typically does lion's share of back-breaking details-oriented work. The job is almost ballet-like, in that everybody involved has to follow a choreographed plan in order to achieve success. Operators don't sleep a lot.

A strong CEO is an asset to any organization because they sell the product and represent the company's image to the world.

in this episode, Dmitry talks about some of Xena's successes and failures in a way where you can almost imagine being there yourself. There are always struggles when building something that's never been built before and Xena was the first to market with attractive womens' work boots. it's not a spaceship, but as you'll see when you watch this episode, starting a company to manufacture a novel product is arduous.

Additionally, Dmitry and Spencer talk about industrial safety and the importance of paving new ground.

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Check out Xena workwear as well at https://xenaworkwear.com/
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