Технологии и бизнес
Основатели, руководители и технологи с корнями в русском мире — от Google до Telegram и Ethereum.
Современный мир технологий несёт непропорционально большой отпечаток диаспоры русской цивилизации. Google был сооснован родившимся в Москве Сергеем Брином; WhatsApp — родившимся в Киеве Яном Кумом; Telegram — братьями Дуровыми; Ethereum — Виталиком Бутериным. Сочетание первоклассного математического образования и предпринимательской миграции породило основателей и технологов в Кремниевой долине и за её пределами. Эта категория документирует их.
Аркадий Волож
Co-founder of Yandex, Russia's answer to Google
Сергей Брин
Google co-founder who escaped Soviet antisemitism
Александр Герко
Soviet-born mathematician; founder of the algorithmic market maker XTX Markets
Александр Картвели
Aircraft designer born in Tiflis in 1896; chief engineer of Seversky and Republic Aviation — P-47 Thunderbolt, F-84 Thunderjet, F-105 Thunderchief
Александр Никс
Cambridge Analytica CEO whose Russian-connected data scandal shook global democracy
Александр Понятов
Engineer born in the Kazan Governorate in 1892; founder of Ampex, whose team built the first practical videotape recorder (1956)
Александр де Северски
Aviator and aircraft maker born in Tiflis in 1894; founder of Seversky Aircraft (later Republic Aviation) and author of Victory Through Air Power
Александр Ванг
American fashion designer raised by parents who emigrated from the USSR
Алексей Миловидов
Russian creator of ClickHouse — the open-source database powering analytics at Cloudflare, Spotify and thousands of companies
Анастасия Михаэли
Russian-born Israeli model elected to the Knesset
Андрей Баронов
Russian co-founder of Veeam Software — one of the world's leading data protection companies
Андрей Филев
Russian-born founder of Wrike who built one of the world's leading work management platforms
Андрей Хусид
Perm-born entrepreneur who co-founded Miro, the world's leading visual collaboration platform
Арсен Томский
Russian founder of InDriver — the ride-hailing app born in Yakutia that challenged Uber globally
Асси Азар
Israeli TV host with Russian immigrant roots
Бернард Маркус
Son of Russian immigrants who built retail's cathedral.
Карл Бара
The Libertines co-founder with Russian, French and Polish roots who defined British indie rock
Основатели Check Point
Soviet-born founders who invented the commercial firewall and built the world's largest pure cybersecurity company
Давид Янг
Yerevan-born entrepreneur who co-founded ABBYY and brought Russian AI to the world
Денис Свердлов
Russian entrepreneur who founded Arrival — the electric vehicle startup that shook Detroit
Эфраим Кишон
Budapest-born Israeli satirist, playwright and filmmaker who escaped a transport to Sobibor and emigrated to Israel in 1949
Евгений Касперский
Cybersecurity expert born in Novorossiysk in 1965; co-founder in 1997 and chief executive since 2007 of Kaspersky Lab
Гэвин Росдейл
Bush frontman whose original family name was Rosenthal — Russian-Jewish roots on his father's side
Игорь Сикорский
Aviation pioneer born in Kiev; built the first four-engine aircraft and the first viable American helicopter
Илья Сегалович
Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod)-born co-founder and CTO of Yandex
Илья Суцкевер
The Soviet-born mind reshaping artificial intelligence
Исайя Берлин
Philosopher and historian of ideas, author of 'Two Concepts of Liberty'; born in Riga, a child witness of the Petrograd revolutions of 1917
Ян Кум
Co-founder of WhatsApp, born in Kyiv in 1976 and raised in Fastiv; emigrated to California at sixteen in 1992
Леонид Радвинский
Odessa-born tech entrepreneur who owns OnlyFans and built a $2 billion content empire
Марк Ронсон
London-born producer of Amy Winehouse's Back to Black; his Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors came from Austria, Lithuania and Russia
Марк Адлер
Canadian film composer with Polish-Russian Jewish roots who scored The Artist and Life of Pi
Макс Левчин
PayPal co-founder who coded his way from Kyiv to Silicon Valley
Михаил Струков
Born in Yekaterinoslav — the aviation engineer who invented the assault glider and built Chase Aircraft
Мик Джонс
The Clash guitarist whose mother fled Russian Jewish pogroms — co-wrote London Calling
Миша Зильберман
Moscow-born Israeli chess grandmaster — one of the strongest players in Israeli history
Моррис Михтом
Brooklyn shopkeeper born in the Russian Empire who, with his wife Rose, made the first 'Teddy's bear' and founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company
Николай Дуров
Pavel Durov's brother — Leningrad mathematician who co-built VKontakte and Telegram's technology
Николай Сторонский
Dolgoprudny-born physicist who co-founded Revolut — Europe's most valuable fintech startup
Олег Шардин
Russian-born co-founder of Miro — the collaborative whiteboard platform used by 60 million people
Павел Дуров
Founder of VKontakte and Telegram, born in Leningrad in 1984; left Russia in 2014 and is based in Dubai
Пит Доэрти
Libertines co-frontman whose Russian roots come via maternal family lines and a teenage poetry prize trip to Russia
Филипп Кан
Paris-born tech pioneer whose mother was a Russian Jewish violinist — invented the camera phone
Рафаэль Глюксман
French MEP and intellectual whose family fled Czernowitz — one of Europe's most prominent anti-Putin voices
Ратмир Тимашев
Ufa-born co-founder of Veeam Software and Aelita Software
Рид Хоффман
Entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of LinkedIn
Роман Аксельрод
Russian-born co-founder of Xpanceo — building the next generation of smart contact lens computing
Рустем Каримов
Russian-Tatar co-founder of 1Password — the world's most trusted password manager
Сэм Генновей
American author and urban planner with Russian-Lebanese roots who wrote the definitive books on Walt Disney
Сергей Белоусов
Leningrad-born co-founder of Acronis and Parallels — one of the most successful Russian tech entrepreneurs
Слава Рубин
Born in Minsk — co-founded Indiegogo and pioneered the global crowdfunding industry
Степан Пачиков
Born in Azerbaijan — pioneered handwriting recognition software and co-founded Evernote
Султан Саидов
Chechen-British entrepreneur building international technology ventures from London
Виктория Теннант
British actress with Russian grandfather — married Steve Martin and starred in LA Story
Виталик Бутерин
The Russian-born mind who reinvented money
Виталий Печерский
Владимир Зворыкин
Born in Murom — the father of television, who invented the iconoscope and kinescope
Юрий Израилевский
Оскар Хартманн
Russian-born serial entrepreneur who co-founded Westwing and KK&K — Germany's startup ecosystem connector
Феликс Зандман
Survived the Holocaust hidden in a pit for 17 months — then built Vishay Intertechnology, one of the world's largest electronics companies
Абакар Саидов
Dagestani-born AI entrepreneur who co-founded Beamery — a $800M+ AI talent management platform
Арсений Вершинин
Grew up in a small Siberian town, studied nuclear physics in Moscow — then co-founded Personio, Germany's $6B HR tech giant
Ильдар Шар
Toronto entrepreneur, co-founder of StackAdapt and founder of FirstPrinciples
Дмитрий Токарев
Russian-born founder of Copper.co — one of the world's leading institutional crypto custodians
Евгений Лебедев
Son of a KGB officer — owns the Evening Standard and The Independent, sits in the House of Lords
Андрей Андреев
Russian-born founder of Badoo who launched Bumble — the dating app that made women message first
Игорь Бухман
Vologda-born co-founder of the mobile game company Playrix
Дмитрий Бухман
Vologda-born co-founder, with his brother Igor, of the mobile games developer Playrix
Александр Тамас
German investor, co-founder of Vy Capital and former partner at DST Global
Артём Милинчук
Post-Soviet-born founder of FarmTogether — pioneering digital farmland investment for ultra-high-net-worth individuals
Ханс-Хольгер Альбрехт
Media executive who ran Deezer, born into the Knoop line
Роберт Робинсон
Jamaican-born toolmaker from Ford's Detroit plant who went to Stalingrad in 1930 and lived 44 years in the USSR; author of Black on Red