The Digital Economy Magazine, a leading voice on all things technology, has named Yonas Beshawred, Founder and CEO of Stackshare US as Digital Economy Personality of the week for the month of Jan 8th-Jan 14th,2023 ranking.
Yonas Beshawred is the founder and CEO of Stackshare, a developer-only community of engineers, CTOs, VPEs and developers from some world’s top startups and companies.
StackShare is a platform allowing software developers and tech companies to share their tools and how they use them.
A graduate with a degree in business, Beshawred previously worked for one of the world’s largest consulting firms, Accenture, for 18 months. He has always been interested in business and international development, but not necessarily tech.
His role at Accenture made him fond of tech by seeing how large companies made IT and large-scale technology decisions.
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He launched Stackshare in 2014 as a side project on a WordPress blog. Since its inception, the company has raised $7 million and reached 1M developers, engineers, CTOs, VPEs, architects, and founders.
Aside from developing one of the best startup firms, the 35-year-old also helped start an organization called Harambeans, a network of over 250 African founders who have collectively created over 3,000 jobs and raised above $400 million in total for their companies, he says.
The growth of StackShare was quick as the company entered Batch 15 of 500 Startups flagship accelerator in 2015, before eventually becoming the go-to place to debate technologies in 2020.
Today StackShare boasts 1 million developers and CTOs with recognition from top media organizations as a Rising Star.
Digital Economy personality of the week, is a weekly recognition of top leading CEOS, based on their impact in the industry, innovation, professional experience, exemplary leadership, achievements, amongst other criteria.
