Sergiu Adrian Lazar Angelescu from the EIT Digital Master School to running Product Weekend
In 2018 Sergiu Adrian Lazar Angelescu graduated from the EIT Digital Master School with a clear idea in mind- to start his own company. Today, he's leading Product Weekend, Europe's most immersive learning and networking conference in Europe dedicated to product management education and community-building.
Angelescu’s journey began in earnest during his studies at EIT Digital, where he co-founded his first venture, SpotYet, an innovative platform to enhance networking at events. This early entrepreneurial experience became pivotal, revealing a significant gap: practical, relevant education in product management was scarce, often too generic, or absent altogether from formal education.
During my master's with EIT Digital, SpotYet was an intense learning experience, showing me firsthand how crucial and underserved product management education truly was
Sergiu Adrian Lazar Angelescu, EIT Digital Master School Graduate
After graduation, Sergiu joined Amazon as a Product Manager, yet continued nurturing entrepreneurial side projects. In 2022, he founded Jungle Retreats, transformative events aimed at helping professionals align their careers with their passions. Around the same time, his friend João Moita had launched Product Weekend in Portugal. Their visions naturally aligned and the two founders merged their initiatives under the Product Weekend brand.
Scaling through community and innovation
Since its inception, Product Weekend has rapidly expanded across Europe, organizing 16 impactful events in seven countries in 2024 alone. Beyond conferences, the startup is evolving into a comprehensive hub for product professionals, offering webinars, podcasts, blogs, and an active online community.
Moreover, Product Weekend is tackling the challenge of team effectiveness by promoting psychological safety in workplaces through B2B training programs. To complement these trainings, they’re launching a unique corporate board game aimed at making psychological safety practices fun, easy, and sustainable for businesses.
As the company prepares to launch a global franchise model in 2025–starting with the USA, Canada, and Brazil–it faces challenges in scaling sustainably without compromising quality.
Angelescu credits much of his entrepreneurial mindset to his experience at the EIT Digital Master School, emphasizing how it reshaped his thinking and gave him the confidence to pursue entrepreneurship much earlier than he had anticipated.
Before EIT Digital, I believed I needed at least ten years of industry experience to start my own company, but the program changed my perspective. It provided me not just with entrepreneurial foundations but with a network of colleagues who shared a similar mindset. Starting SpotYet during the master's program showed me I could build something meaningful immediately–I didn't need to wait.
Sergiu Adrian Lazar Angelescu, EIT Digital Master School Graduate
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