The Under Pressure Podcast
The Under Pressure Podcast
Podcast Description
I’m Alexandre Tomic—founder, builder, and someone who’s spent 20 years navigating iGaming’s highs and lows. Through launching Alea and pioneering game aggregation, I’ve learned that resilience is everything.
On The Under Pressure Podcast, I sit down with founders, risk-takers, and visionaries to explore the defining moments that shaped them—the risks, the failures, and the lessons learned.
Why the hyperbaric chamber? Because legends aren’t built in comfort. Diamonds are made under pressure.
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The podcast focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation, and the challenges of the iGaming industry, with episodes discussing pivotal moments, risks taken, and lessons learned, such as interviews covering the evolution of gaming events and personal stories like those of Alex Pratt's transformative experiences in the sector.
I’m Alexandre Tomic—founder, builder, and someone who’s spent 20 years navigating iGaming’s highs and lows. Through launching Alea and pioneering game aggregation, I’ve learned that resilience is everything.
On The Under Pressure Podcast, I sit down with founders, risk-takers, and visionaries to explore the defining moments that shaped them—the risks, the failures, and the lessons learned.
Why the hyperbaric chamber? Because legends aren’t built in comfort. Diamonds are made under pressure.
Subscribe and listen everywhere you want.
What happens when a finance executive walks into a small Georgian game studio? In this episode of The Under Pressure Podcast, host Alexandre Tomic sits down with Guga Gotsadze, CEO and shareholder of SmartSoft, to explore how SmartSoft leveraged product iteration, customer feedback loops and data-driven decision-making to become a leader in iGaming innovation, transforming from a three-developer startup into one of the industry’s most prolific game developers with a rapidly growing global user base.
What You’ll Learn:
How the “Control Illusion” mechanic drives player engagement in crash games
The product release strategy that balances innovation with viability
Why copying is a validation signal and not a threat
How to leverage the Georgian developer ecosystem as a competitive advantage
How AI accelerates game development by 3+ months
The IPO Path for iGaming Providers and the trade-offs between private ownership and public markets
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