Emigrating from Ukraine to Chicago as a boy in the early 1990s, Vadim Vladmirskiy found his calling plugging in dial-up modems under the desks of his family and neighbours. Thirty years later he is the founder and CEO of Nerdio, which serves thousands of companies across 50 countries helping to manage and cut costs on their Microsoft deployments in the cloud.
Vadim’s journey from high-school side-hussler to multinational tech leader has seen him build and grow a number of successful ventures along the way. He says the secret to success has been ‘naively’ failing to set limits on his own expectations – something he’d recommend for all budding entrepreneurs.
Nerdio started as an internal project at a Managed Service Provider (MSP) Vadim helped set up and run in his native Chicago. It was a tool to help the company manage client needs in delivering desktop virtualisation from their own private cloud. Soon enough, however, other MSPs learned of their innovation and asked to license it themselves.
A move away from their private cloud to Microsoft Azure allowed Nerdio to offer its services to other MSPs without competive tensions, and that’s when things really took off.
Then, in 2019, Microsoft released Azure Virtual Desktop and Nerdio chose to rapidly expand its feature set. It was just in time. A few months later, COVID-19 lockdowns began and seemingly half the world surged into Nerdio’s inbox looking for solutions for suddenly dispersed workforces.
In this episode of the NODE podcast, Vadim takes us back to his roots and explains how his mission to ‘destress IT pros’ has helped Nerdio seize its opportunities and expand both its offering and its workforce at pace.
