S9E393 - #393 – How Andrei Pitis killed a working product and grew 10x in months
Published: February 18, 2026
Duration: 53:28
A story about betting on what's coming—not what's working.
This episode is for SaaS founders questioning whether their current traction is real momentum—or just comfortable motion.
Traction can be the most dangerous thing in a startup.
Andrei Pitis, CEO of Genezio, built a serverless developer platform with real users and real momentum. Then he killed it. Andrei Pitis built Vector Watch, a smartwatch with 30-day battery life, and sold it to Fitbit. With Genezio, he did something harder—killed a working product because he spotted a shift most founders missed.
And...