CZ Podcast 217: Ivo Lukačovič

Image caption: Ivo Lukačovič doesn’t like publicity, but he agreed to a portrait for CZ Podcast. While tracing it onto the flip chart, I scribbled a little on his shirt, which read “Your wife is real.”

The unbelievable actually happened. Our tired catchphrase finally came true because Ivo Lukačovič came by. He founded Seznam.cz, Windy.com and Melown. This episode has two parts. On the technical side, Ivo told us how he programmed Windy.com, why it bothers him when someone changes tabs to spaces in his indentation, how he encountered Angular and single-threaded programming, and how he fell for vanilla JavaScript and Node.js. In the second part he talked about how the details mattered when negotiating the price of the 3D modelling startup Melown, the power of saying no, books, four business meetings a year, climate change, and flying planes and helicopters.