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Petr Šmíd is a General Partner at Rockaway Ventures. Petr began his career at McKinsey, where he worked as an engagement manager advising clients on strategy and business transformation across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He went on to spend over a decade at Google, where he played a pivotal role in launching and scaling Google Pay and Google Assistant in Central and Eastern Europe, helping these products reach millions of users. His work helped position the CEE region as a technology trailblazer, showing that in some areas it can even outperform more established Western markets. He was also instrumental in driving a tenfold growth of Google’s advertising business in the region, enabling a wave of local digital companies to expand internationally.