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Staffyou founder Pavle Beslic on innovating the temp staffing business and getting punched in the face

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I thought I could do it better, so I called six friends and started a staffing company

StaffU begins with a career detour. The guest comes in as a chartered accountant who left Deloitte, went independent, found recruitment, and built an on-demand staffing platform. The host keeps it loose. He starts with a LinkedIn detail, the seven languages, then moves into personality, background, and the founder story. The useful thread is finance. When the conversation turns to building the company, the guest connects his audit background to risk, reporting, and investor conversations. He knows what the finance function is supposed to become, so he can tell when a startup needs a heavy financial controller and when it can keep moving without one. There is a nice demystifying bit, too. Working around large companies taught him that corporates do not have everything buttoned up either. That changes the founder posture. Mistakes stop looking like proof that the company is not ready and start looking like operating facts to handle. The numbers become leverage. Banks, financiers, and investors are easier to face when the founder can speak their language. The host presses on funding, after noting that at a dinner with scale-up CEOs two years earlier, the guest seemed comfortable growing quickly without venture capital. Has his thinking changed since then? That is the business tension here. The excerpt gives you a founder who is not anti-finance. He just understands finance well enough not to be scared by it. There is some color around boats, boxing, public recognition, and getting punched in the face, but the best material is quieter: an accountant's risk habits turning into startup instincts.

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Audit discipline gives a staffing scale-up story its edge.

This episode keeps temp staffing on the ground, where it belongs. Pavel Bezlic reads as a founder shaped by accounting, audit, and risk, so the StaffU story feels practical rather than polished.

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A chartered accountant turned founder explains how audit discipline shapes startup decisions at StaffU and why he kept waiting on VC.

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