Maks Vukovic

I scale tech startups fast and I love it | Head of BD @growthmate_xyz | prev led BD @calimeronetwork, strategy & ops for EU’s fastest ecom🦄 @razorgroup

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

2025 brought me closer to one of the savviest teams in ad tech space.

Truly honored to work with @growthmate_xyz on making advertising more focused, more efficient, and revolved around users' intents.

The team has got thick skin in the game, having explored users' onchain behavior for years.

If you are into the advertising game, you definitely want to keep tabs on us.

Hit me up if you want to learn more or spin your first campaign!

[GrowthMate @growthmate_xyz]

We are GrowthMate, an ad network serving ads on blockchain explorers, analytics platforms, and high-traffic crypto publications.

We help companies reach their target audiences through programmatic banner ads, allowing them complete freedom to customize targeting and messaging down to a granular level, far beyond the constraints of mainstream ad platforms.

GrowthMate allows companies to reach their target audience with precision, regardless of their use case. Full programmatic access to the advertising context allows for incredibly powerful hyper-targeting, in example:

• Onchain analytics companies can now target blockchain analysts by identifying users that run complex queries on block explorers

• Cross-border payment providers can now target foreign workers by noticing when device language differs from the language of the user's country

• AI companies can now target power-users by advertising to people frequently reading articles of a competitor

• Exchanges can now target high-intent traders by reaching users that recently tracked price movements of specific tokens

Understanding where and when to advertise drives wasted ad spend to zero.

By analyzing both onchain and offchain behavior, GrowthMate predicts users' intents in real time, and figures out who and when to target with personalized ads. We call this context-aware hyper-targeting. This mechanism leads to the elevated user experience where users get shown only the relevant ads, at the exact moments when they would be relevant to them.

Want to see how context-aware hyper-targeting would work for your project?

DM us for a quick walk-through and a sample targeting plan for your audience, we love exploring new advertising use cases!

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

You know what they thought about CFOs hating them at Snowflake? Tough cookies, deal with it lol.

There needs to be some sort of adaptability and a solution to it. Come to think of it, somebody who makes it less painful will do quite well for themselves.

Agreed that the hybrid is the go to.

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@luagaroz Doc

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@bertlef_ @nic_amadio Remote or in office?

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@zamdoteth It really goes both ways, sad to hear that you had such a shitty experience.

What has prevented the signature?

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@nic_amadio Phenomenal stats, really appreciated!

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@nic_amadio The question more pertains as to what would you rate the feasibility of doing tech sales remotely in English from the EU. All aforementioned, I agree with.

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@nic_amadio Pozuelo goated for the rich suburban lifestyle, Salamanca / Goya for being a rich fuckeroo in the inner city center

Madrid is 100% the highest quality of living metropolitan area in the EU, provided you figured out your finances

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@defyneric Led BD from scratch for 2 Web3 cos (1 funded by Khosla) and brought in the first revenues + scaled the 2nd fastest unicorn in EU at the time, based in the EU.

Would love to chat!

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@chrisbrunet a thing of beauty

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@swader El Clasico

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

For me it’d rather be the consumption/token increase than the seats. In an economy where the orgs get streamlined and the headcounts slimmer, you’re leaving money on the table if you have purely seat-based pricing

Every major SaaS company that’s still predominantly charging per seats is having this conversation as we speak

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@humancapitol @shimon_newman Hey @humancapitol - led BD / growth from scratch for 2 Web3 cos (1 funded by Khosla) + scaled the 2nd fastest unicorn in EU at the time. Going all Ackmanian here but may I meet you?

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@Cbb0fe same shit with Modrić, and Šuker back in the days lol

Mbappe is a machine

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@windhustler I can only imagine the types of looks 😂

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@SkrabaAndrej @Astra__AI @klemenselakovic v, v interesting space you guys are operating in!

Would love to have a chat with the team and figure out how to get you to 100M faster, collabed with some EdTech projects :)

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

@FidelCacheFlow Desperado

[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

Back in my WU/Tsinghua days, I wrote my thesis on Chinese Unicorns and how China has been preparing for the future ahead. I spent inumerable hours discussing these topics with many locals and foreigners in China, with whom I still keep in touch.

China does not operate on a short term basis. They have the longest, most-versatile plannings and schemings you’ve ever encountered, ensuring they are positioned for success and civilizational breakthroughs.

They are quick to identify the fields of major uplifts in productivity and future prosperity, quick to act on them by promulgating forward-looking, adoption-eased policies which in effect create the supporting ecosystems and climate of enthusiasm mixed with a sense of mission, and quick to drive massive investments into them.

Chinese are well-positioned to pose a real threat in the age of AGI.

[Whale Insider @WhaleInsider]

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[Maks Vukovic @MaksVuk]

Back in the days, during WC of Sourh Africa, I sat next to Ivica Olić in Munich and watched Italy - Slovakia with him. Slovakia led 2:1, dying minutes, they’re putting Quag in.

“Ivica, this lad’s about to score”

“Alright, let’s see it”

A few moments later

“Kid, you know ball”