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From Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Better Engineering Teams with Thanos Diacakis

From Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Better Engineering Teams with Thanos Diacakis

Update: 2025-07-14
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Episode Title: From Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Better Engineering Teams with Thanos Diacakis
Guest: Thanos Diacakis
Host: Virginia Purnell
Podcast: Entrepreneur Conundrum

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What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

  • How Thanos turned early startup experience into a career of helping software teams scale
  • Common misconceptions about engineering productivity
  • The four types of work all software teams should balance
  • Why going “faster” often starts with doing less
  • Thanos’ ABCD framework: Iteration, Quality, Complexity, Planning
  • The truth about burnout, identity, and finding joy in software again
  • Best advice Thanos has ever received—and given
  • His favorite book (Changing on the Job) and favorite movie (A Few Good Men)

Ideal For:

  • Startup founders with growing engineering teams
  • CTOs and engineering managers facing team burnout or delivery delays
  • Anyone curious about the intersection of software development and team health

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Key Questions

(01:12 ) How did you end up on this journey and where you are today?

(02:32 ) Who's your ideal client today?

(04:00 ) How do you get in front of these people?

(08:12 ) What are a couple of big goals that you're looking to achieve in the next year or two?

(09:00 ) How would that affect your business?

(09:41 ) So I think you've already touched on all of the questions about how to deliver software faster by doing less. I think we talked about that with time allocation, right? Is there anything else that you wanted to touch on?

(15:36 ) Is working with you an ongoing long term aspect, or is it for a certain time It will usually start with some engagement to the tune of six months.

(17:52 ) Is it hard to find where the bottleneck is in the software?

(20:16 ) What is the best advice that you have ever received?

(21:30 ) What's the best advice you've ever given?

(23:35 ) I have that question, too, because you've done quite a few startups, and you have a family and stuff like So do you have any tips on how you were able to try to have that balance?

(25:57 ) Is there anything else that you would like to talk about that we haven't yet?

(26:10 ) What is your favorite book and movie?

(29:21 ) Where can we go to learn more about you and what you do?

Thanos Diacakis

https://www.cosmicteacups.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thanosd/

Virginia Purnell

Funnel & Visibility Specialist

Distinct Digital Marketing

(833) 762-5336

virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.com

www.distinctdigitalmarketing.com

www.distinctdigitalmarketing.co

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From Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Better Engineering Teams with Thanos Diacakis

From Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Better Engineering Teams with Thanos Diacakis

Thanos Diacakis, Virginia Purnell