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Ardan Labs Podcast

Wednesday, Consulting, and Business with Ali Hafizji

Ardan Labs Podcast

Bill Kennedy

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57 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Ali Hafizji, founder of Wednesday, shares insights into his unique approach to product engineering through a sprint model that emphasizes outcomes over time. He discusses the importance of Agile methodology in adapting to change, the dynamics of client relationships, and the challenges of communication across time zones. He discusses the importance of embracing AI in product development and emphasizes the lessons learned from his experiences. 00:00 Introduction 00:40 What i...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Ard Lives podcast, our special guest today is Ali H. I'm going to go H and you're going to tell everybody the rest of your name.

0:27.0

Sure. Hey guys. Hi, Bill. It's good to be here. My name is Ali Hafizzi. But you can call me Ali.

0:34.6

Nice, nice. My wife's Colombian. Everybody speaks Spanish in the house I can't even speak

0:39.7

Spanish to the point where sometimes I just go out of my way to say it poorly because

0:45.1

I just can't say it properly Kevin our producer sees me do that in the house sometimes and he's

0:51.1

laughing um so that that's cool.

0:59.5

All right, Ali, give everybody the two-minute spiel on what you're doing today.

0:59.8

Okay.

1:03.0

So I'm the founder of a company called Wednesday.

1:08.7

Wednesday is a 60-person product engineering agency based out of India.

1:15.3

And while most agencies sell people's time, we are selling wide sprints. So our unit of doing business is a sprint, which means that we charge customers a

1:24.8

fixed price, whether something takes two weeks or three weeks.

1:29.0

And we like this kind of business model where, you know, we charge for an outcome and not time.

1:36.5

And customers seem to like it and has helped us build a little bit of trust with the people that we've

1:42.6

been working with. So that's,

1:48.5

that's what I'm doing, which is building products. Okay, a couple things, couple things.

1:55.7

Why are they named Wednesday? That's interesting. Yeah, that's, that's actually, so my co-founder and I, we, well, before Wednesday, we used to, we used to work together at another startup that

2:00.7

I was running.

2:01.8

And a lot of projects that we were building at that time, we would give them names out of like Norse mythology, something like Thor, Odin, something of that.

2:12.2

And these were GitHub projects.

2:14.4

And when we decided to do a consulting company, we said that, you know, we'll try

2:20.2

and find something in the Norse, you know, terminology. And the day that we created the company

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