The whole internet tells you to say no. Say no to almost everything and yes to almost nothing, protect your time like it’s the last fuel on the ship.
I did the opposite. It built me.
CTO at Omilia · Tech entrepreneur
From warship command to engineering command.
I'm Marios Fakiolas. I spent 13 years as a naval officer, including 30 months commanding a warship, before moving into tech. Today I'm CTO at Omilia, where I lead a team of 200 engineers building conversational AI for Fortune 500 enterprises across cloud infrastructure, AI, and heavily regulated industries. I build strong engineering teams and ship AI products at scale.
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