Kristo Klementi, Revismo’s CEO, who was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2023, discussed in a radio interview a variety of topics such as: the company’s early years, the evolution of the entrepreneurial journey, the joys and pains of the profession, finding good engineers and the importance of team.
Kristo admits that Revismo’s success and its organic, yet relatively rapid development and growth is always based on the team as a whole. “At the end of the day, of course, you can maybe talk about some of the right decisions being made by management but it’s still a team that does the work every day and I often say at our firm events that our company is a service company, and if we don’t go to work on Monday morning, there is essentially no company.” However, returning to the management team, Kristo points out that recruitment is crucial and adds: “It is definitely one of the things that I haven’t dropped from my desk, and I definitely plan to be part of it in the future too, because we are not just recruiting engineers, we are recruiting excellent engineers!”.
The attraction of working at Revismo for Kristo is that their work is extremely interesting for an engineer as there are no identical projects, which means that the projects are quite challenging and therefore even more fascinating.
Going deeper into being a leader, Kristo believes that “a leader is not some kind of miraculous or special being, he does his job, he has his tasks and he has to do it with his heart, it’s definitely not an eight-to-five job, it’s a lifestyle.” Despite the hardships of the job of a manager and the fact that sometimes he still doesn’t trust his gut feeling, even though he should, Kristo says: “I don’t see myself doing anything else, maybe I will one day, but there is no other plan or vision at the moment, I’m just trying to keep doing what I’m already doing today.”
Finally, at the end of the programme, the dialogue moved towards the topic of the manager’s loneliness. Kristo admitted that he has a very lovely family, three children, a wife and excellent colleagues, that he has nothing to complain about and agreed with the host that behind every recognition, there is always family, in addition to everything else.
The programme went to air on 14 February 2024 and can be listened to here (The programme is in Estonian and only available to Äripäev’s subscribers.): https://www.aripaev.ee/raadio/episood/aasta-noor-ettevotja-votab-ari-ja-juhtimist-isiklikult
