03/09/2026
One studied at military school and international business school. The other studied classical piano, medicine and computer science.
One loves AI. The other is more like… meh.
One cooks, runs trails, hikes mountains, rescues cats and dreams of becoming the mayor of Mălini one day. The other paints miniatures, 3D prints, sculpts, writes SciFi and fantasy stories, plays Dungeons & Dragons, does photography and is even working on his own video game.
Put Sorin Veleșcu and Edi Bosnea together on the stage of the National Opera and ask them to represent our Team Leads at the CGM10 Gala, and you definitely shouldn't expect a conventional leadership speech.
And we didn't get one. Instead, we got “10 things we learned as Team Leads”, a presentation packed with memes, humor, very different life experiences and some surprisingly serious truths about leading people.
We learned that fun isn't a distraction from great work. It's part of what makes great work possible.
That good ideas can come from anywhere. That “I don't know, let's find out” is a perfectly good answer. That diversity in a team leads to innovation and strength. That nurturing future talent has a huge ROI. That distance doesn't matter as much as trust.
And that, no matter how strong your technical skills are, the really hard part of leadership is human: empathy, respect and genuinely caring about the people around you.
They also reminded us that ownership does NOT mean doing everything yourself. Which is probably a useful reminder for more than just Team Leads.
Sorin and Edi are very different people. But they have quite a few things in common: they both love cats, they're both total nerds - in the best possible meaning of the word - and they're both strong leaders who have learned that leadership has much less to do with having all the answers and much more to do with the people you lead.
At CGM10, they represented our Team Leads exactly the way we hoped they would: with intelligence, humor, personality and zero corporate speeches.
Thank you, Sorin and Edi, for making us laugh, and for sneaking some pretty good leadership lessons in between the memes.