Regpack CEO Asaf Darash created Regpack out of 7 years worth of research for his Ph.D. Combining his love for linguistics, computer languages, and economics Asaf managed to develop a “self-service software” customizable solution that helps companies manage automated payments, client onboarding, and several other business processes. In today’s episode of the Jake Dunlap Show, Asaf shares how he discovered the magic behind computer programming, what drives him in his work, and the reality of building a successful business, oftentimes with disregard to physical and emotional health.
Regpack CEO Asaf Darash created Regpack out of 7 years worth of research for his Ph.D. Combining his love for linguistics, computer languages, and economics Asaf managed to develop a “self-service software” customizable solution that helps companies manage automated payments, client onboarding, and several other business processes.
In today’s episode of the Jake Dunlap Show, Asaf shares how he discovered the magic behind computer programming, what drives him in his work, and the reality of building a successful business, oftentimes with disregard to physical and emotional health.
Time stamps:
(01:07) Today's guest, Asaf Darash, Founder and CEO of Regpack;
(01:47) Falling in love with the magic world of computers and programming;
(04:03) Getting his Ph.D. in New Media, which combined all his passions- linguistics, computer languages, and economics and moving to California after receiving a Fulbright scholarship at UC Berkley;
(06:16) How the idea of Regpak came to life;
(08:44) Inheriting his father’s entrepreneurship spirit and craving to create something that could solve problems on a day-to-day basis;
(14:47) Finding the right niche for Regpack- helping businesses to automate clients' onboarding and payments and offering people the possibility to pay in installments;
(20:08) Making time for self-care and meditation after having panic attacks and realizing he doesn’t want to go on the medication route;
(29:21) Working hard vs. working smart- you need to learn to ask the right questions and figure out what your client’s real problems are in order to find the right solutions;
(39:07) Regpack’s future- becoming the Shopify of services! Making everything available for a client's onboarding process, in all types of businesses.
Quotes
“Think of it like this. An architect wants to design a building. He designs the building and now someone needs to go out and build the building. A programmer thinks of a program, designs it, writes it down and it exists. It’s an actual working machine. It’s like magic.”
“I didn’t get into Harvard (...) If I would have gone to Harvard I would have been a totally different person than who I am today. I would have met completely different people, I wouldn’t have started my company in San Francisco. My whole life would have been different, and something that at the time seemed like a disaster to me, today, is one of the most important things that ever happened to me.”
“What you’re doing is giving people that flexibility to buy how they want, meeting the customer where they’re at and I just feel like, as we go forward, that is going to be the name of the game.”
“I had a wake-up call. We had a problem in the company where we lost some information, it was leaking out, and as I realized this was happening I found myself almost to the floor, in a fetal position, in a super panic attack (...) and I was sure like I was going to die, cause I felt that everything that I built it was going to be destroyed.”
“If we don’t stop and learn to basically stop thinking and to just feel our body, and to understand that the most important person in all of this is ourselves, then it’s not going to end well.”
“People tend to disconnect their work from their life (...) But no, everything is your life. The time that you swim, the time that you play, the time that you work, the time that you think, the time that you plan, that’s all your life. Every single part of it.”
“We do not come to people with solutions, we only come to people with problems. A lot of times, someone has a problem and they figure out the solution in their mind and they come in, guns blazing saying I need this and this and this (...) they just wanted the solution that they came up with. (...)
What we always do in Regpack is that, when someone comes with a solution or a feature request, we’re like “Stop, what’s the that you’re trying to solve?” Cause we found that 90% of the time, the solution that they come up with is the wrong solution.”
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Get in contact with Asaf:
Linkedin- linkedin.com/in/asafdarash
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/asaf.darash/
His company, Regpak- social links:
Website- https://www.regpacks.com/
Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/company/regpack
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/Regpack/
Twitter- https://twitter.com/regpack
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/regpacks/
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Mentions:
BASIC- general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use;
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