Cristian Dina

Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Tekpon | City Leader @ SaaStock | SaaS Podcast Host

We rise by lifting others!

Cristian Dina is the Co-Founder of Tekpon and CRO at The Next Web.

His work has positioned Tekpon as a trusted software buying platform used by thousands of companies worldwide.

Cristian has personally interviewed 300+ industry leaders and authored the best-selling book King of Networking, establishing himself as one of the most connected and respected voices in the ecosystem.

At just 23 years old, Cristian was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 2025 list, representing a new generation of tech builders, bold thinkers who move fast, build with purpose, and create real impact.

Founding Member - Right Hand to CEO

> Strategic support
> Building and nurturing relationships

We’re excited to welcome Gabriela Geanta as our new Partnerships Manager.

Gabriela brings a strong background in business development and relationship management, along with a clear focus on building sustainable, long-term collaborations. 

If you are an executive interested in working with Tekpon or TNW, feel free to connect with her directly.

Welcome to the team, Gabriela. We’re glad to have you with us.

We rise by lifting others!

Here's my story in short 👇

2019: Started two e-commerce businesses
And eventually sold them for profit 💸

2020: I worked as a super affiliate for carVertical, I was one of the first successful Tik-Tok influencers in Romania 🎯

2021: Joined Tekpon.com at just 19 years old 🤩

2022: Now I'm learning new things everyday from my beautiful colleagues, our parteners, and the people we have on our podcast. It's a wonderful experience 🥰

And the story just begins 🚀

Other personal and fun facts 👇

17-19y I used to wake up at 5am everyday just to be more productive - I was part of the 5 am club ☀️

I used to stay home to read, watch courses, and sometimes go to the gym instead of hanging out with friends 💪

I know, I was too harsh on myself, but I really wanted to make it and show everybody that they were wrong about me ❌

Fortunately, I realized that's a foolish thing to do. You have to forgive people from your past and forgive yourself. Focus on the present and be kind to yourself. You need to enjoy the process and eventually you'll make it 🤗

I grew my personal brand in Romania sharing content about personal development and philosophy - I was obsessed of becoming a better version of myself and I was sharing my process with other people to help them 😌

People now joke about me saying that I am too mature and that I'm an old person in a young body 🤣

One last thing: I used to hate people. They hurt me and I was afraid of them. I was lucky enough to find a mentor and now I can definitely say it will all my heart ❤️

Love people, use things. The opposite never works!

Strategic Partnerships @ TNW & Tekpon

Tekpon

CRO @ TNW | Co-Founder @ Tekpon | Forbes 30 under 30

A teenage team hit 15M installs and exited to MyFitnessPal

Most people at that age are studying for exams.

In under two years, the photo-based calorie app scaled to more than 15 million installs and was reportedly generating tens of millions in annual revenue.

The team was roughly seven people.

Now they are joining MyFitnessPal, whose nutrition database exceeds 14 million food items and underpins one of the largest digital nutrition platforms globally.

What strikes me is how compressed the journey has become from idea to meaningful revenue to strategic acquisition.

Young builders are growing up native to AI tools and distribution channels, and that changes the competitive landscape for everyone else.

Read the full story on TNW:

thenextweb.com

MyFitnessPal acquires AI nutrition app Cal AI, built by teens

MyFitnessPal

What are your best use cases for OpenClaw?

I'm talking about real use cases for B2B companies

OpenClaw

Europe's largest ever seed round may have just happened today

Yann LeCun just raised $1.03bn to prove LLMs are a dead end.

This is Europe's largest ever seed round, and he did it in 4 months.

AMI is building world models, a fundamentally different approach to machine intelligence.

He argues that large language models are statistically impressive but not truly intelligent.

The $3.5bn valuation puts AMI in frontier AI territory before it has shipped a single product.

Read more: https://lnkd.in/dwZr6Aqz

Nscale just broke Europe's Series C record wide open

$2bn raised. $14.6bn valuation. A company founded in 2024.

Read more on TNW: https://lnkd.in/dZJsqQ5z

Nscale

Yesterday we had some incredible news.

Europe's largest ever seed round.

The reactions were simply incredible.

Find out what people think about this raise on TNW

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