From Pizza Delivery to CEO: Building a 7-Figure Design AgencyFrom Pizza Delivery to CEO: Building a 7-Figure Design Agency
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Klym Yevtushenko
• Apr 15
I started with pizza delivery. Today, I run VibeStyle, my own design company. 💚
Honestly, I don’t say that to impress anyone. I say it because not long ago, that sentence would have felt impossible to me.
Before Domino’s 🍕, I spent three months at a bank. Stable job, nice office, painful boredom. I quit and took a delivery driver 🛵 role just to try something different.
I stayed longer than expected. I moved into restaurant management, then into operations auditing. I'm grateful for every year of it, but
On paper, it looked like growth.
Inside, I felt stuck.
I read over 30 books looking for answers. Then I found one that actually changed something: "The Cafe on the Edge of the World" 📕 It didn’t give me a career plan. It made me honest with myself. The answer had been there all along.
Even at Domino’s, I was designing learning materials and banners in my spare time. I was mentally redesigning their mobile app and sharing ideas with leadership. That work gave me energy. Everything else didn’t.
So I bought a laptop, signed up for a UX/UI course, and started from scratch. Three months later, I was sitting at home when the results came in. My first project had won a design competition against around 50 other designers. I couldn’t hold it in. I reacted out loud, probably louder than I planned.
My wife and son were right there and saw the whole thing.
My wife just smiled and said, “I knew. I always believed in you.”
My son didn’t fully understand what had happened, but he saw that it mattered and he clapped 🥹👏 That moment still lives in me.
After that, I worked in several companies as a designer, learned fast, and eventually built my own team - a place where people create work that actually means something.
Today, we’re a team of 20, and we’ve sold over $700,000 in projects. But the thing I’m most proud of isn’t the number. It’s building something real with people I genuinely believe in. 🤝
One lesson I carried from Domino’s into everything else: bring real energy to what you do, or don’t do it at all. That stayed with me, and later became part of the culture I wanted to build in my own team.
And life has a funny way of coming full circle - because now, from time to time, I still order pizza from the same company I once worked for. I still notice every delivery driver I see. On the street, at the door, in the rain. I don’t see just a job. I see a person who might be asking themselves the same question I once asked:
Is this it?
Everyone finds their answer in their own time. I just hope they do. The way I found mine. 💙💚
P.S. I’m deeply grateful for the experience, lessons, growth, and people that shaped my path along the way. Without those chapters and the people I met in them, none of this would have been possible. And it was at Domino’s where I first discovered the side of myself that was naturally drawn to design.
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