School years to now
American Academy Larnaca belongs to its alumni
What alumni ownership means in practice at American Academy Larnaca.
2012 to now
Writing.
The old articles are here as I wrote them. The newer ones look back at the companies I helped build and some of the decisions I got to see up close.
Looking back · 2026
The missing chapters.
I wrote these in 2026 about earlier events. Each article shows when the events happened and when I actually published the piece.
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2005 to 2009
What Imperial taught me about education
I struggled at Imperial College London and had to learn how to learn properly.
2015
Launching Foody
Foody started with five people, phone orders, cash, and a transaction Cypriot customers already understood.
2019
Selling Foody
What changed after Foody joined Delivery Hero, without turning private negotiations into public theatre.
2016 to now
Larnaka Tennis Club and the love of tennis
I started tennis at 32, took lessons, and found people who kept giving me a reason to return to the court.
The 2020s to now
Padel in Cyprus: why the game is growing
What the available court counts say about padel in Cyprus, and what they do not.
After 2019
The earnout years
Time horizons, incentives, succession, and identity during an earnout after Foody was sold.
2019 to 2026
Learning scale at Delivery Hero
What I had to change when Foody's local engineering work became part of Delivery Hero.
2022 to 2025
Opening Moving Doors
Why I moved from advising Staycaee to building it as technical co-founder before it became Moving Doors.
2024 to 2025
Lead, follow, or get the fuck out
I followed first, tried to lead next, and left when the values gap did not close.
2026 to now
Terra now
What I am working on now at Terra: health data infrastructure, engineering, and interfaces for AI agents.
Recovered · 2012 to 2015
The original archive.
Preserved from the former xatzis.com. These articles retain their original dates and wording.
2015
April 5, 2015
My plan to teach my 3 year old daughter programming looks promising.
February 3, 2015
How I learned how to work
2014
July 8, 2014
WTF Brazil
June 12, 2014
Brazil 2014: Probably the best World cup I will ever watch
June 2, 2014
PublicHD: My favourite public tracker is gone!
March 29, 2014
Submitting forms using iFrames on iOS devices
March 16, 2014
XBMC on android TV Boxes
February 7, 2014
Lease, rent or own
2013
December 8, 2013
Startup weekend Cyprus!
April 8, 2013
FIND_IN_SET. A handy little MySQL function
April 6, 2013
My first wordpress plugin
April 6, 2013
No one fights about the private sector
March 28, 2013
Good use for an iPad
March 27, 2013
Crisis needs a leader: Parody
March 22, 2013
The new Legislation proposal for Cyprus
March 10, 2013
Volkswagens POLO R WRC
February 24, 2013
Double edged knife
February 24, 2013
raspberry pi lego case
February 7, 2013
Convert all tables and fields in an sql database to utf8
January 24, 2013
Προεδρικές Εκλογές Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας 2013: Cyprus presidential elections 2013
2012
March 28, 2012
PHP: Object Oriented language or an HTMLTemplate engine?
March 17, 2012
What’s wrong with dreaming?
February 28, 2012
ActiveCyprus.com
February 24, 2012
Excellent Bosses
February 20, 2012
WTF?
January 4, 2012