Participant's name: Volkov Dmitry Borisovich
Age (birthday): 09.07.1976
Moscow city
Job: Co-founder of the venture fund SDVentures and SDV Arts & Science Foundation.
Family: not married, has a daughter
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Dmitry Volkov was born on July 9, 1976 in Moscow. In 1998 he received a diploma from Moscow State University. Lomonosov, having completed a course at the Faculty of History. He didn’t stop there and entered graduate school at the Institute of International Relations and International Relations, majoring in International Relations.
He received an Executive MBA degree from the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management and has certificates from Harvard Business School and Microsoft Corporation.
In 2008 I was able to defend my Ph.D. In 2017 he defended his doctoral dissertation in philosophy.
Successful career as a businessman
In 1998, together with partners from other countries, he created the Social Discovery Ventures holding company. Since 2001, he has been a member of the Project Management Institute. In 2006, he became a member of the Usability Professional Association.
In 2014 he took an honorary place as a member of the Association of Philosophers of the United States of America. Participated in the Gumball 3000 rally throughout 2014-2015.
He is a representative of his own organization Social Discovery Ventures, a laureate of the SKOLKOVO Trend Award 2015 and was awarded an award for conducting effective negotiations, which was given to him by Professor Moti Kristal.
In 2016, Dmitry Volkov became the founder of the SDV Arts and Science Foundation.
He runs his business quite skillfully. In 2013, he began to try his hand as an investor in blockchain technology in the Russian Federation. He invested $20,000,000 in the developer of PC software for working with the BitFury blockchain, and later $3,000,000 in the 500 Startups and iTechCapital funds.
In 2017, he invested $1,000,000 in the new Target Global ES Fund. In the same year, he became a financier of the private university Harbor Space. Invested a million in the social network for scientists Academia.
Dmitry Volkov is on the board of trustees of the State Tretyakov Gallery Support Fund.
Lifestyle of a creative investor
Dmitry is interested in piloting helicopters and heli-skiing. Volkov can be seen performing stratospheric flights, as well as aerobatic flights, which take place with the help of special sports aircraft and fighters.
The millionaire also plays the piano and has been in a jazz band for a long time.
He is a patron of the arts. He danced as part of the musical troupe on Broadway and played in the film in 1993 called “To Survive.”
In 2015, he organized the first Street Piano Festival in the capital of the Russian Federation, and also held the exhibition “Superconduction: challenge of art&technology” in Riga.
In 2015, he supported the release of albums “Contemporary Art”, dedicated to the work of contemporary artists from Russia. Constantly participates in supporting projects dedicated to the creativity of domestic talents in the field of painting.
In 2016, he supported the transcendental piano festival in Muzeon Park. In 2017, he presented the project at the Burning Man festival “Aliens? - Yes!” together with Andrey Bartenev. These are four alien figures ranging from 4 to 12 meters in height.
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He is not officially married. It is known that there is a divorce stamp in the passport. He prefers to carefully hide his personal life, but it is reliably known that the businessman has a daughter.
Participation in the show "Secret Millionaire"
He starred in the project “Secret Millionaire” in March 2017. Under the terms of the project, the businessman had to survive in the provinces for 4 days with a thousand rubles in his pocket.
During filming, he provided assistance to the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the NCCA Arsenal. Since May, he became Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cultural Capital of the Volga Region Foundation.
Photo by Dmitry
Dmitry Volkov is a very energetic person: a significant part of the photos on his Instagram are pictures from travels from all over the world, as well as footage from exhibitions and other projects that the millionaire supports.
As of 2018, Social Discovery Ventures, co-founded by Dmitry Volkov, is engaged in supporting and investing in Internet projects, of which there are more than 50 in the company’s portfolio. Among them are Shazam, the site for finding travel companions TripTogether, an application for learning languages (LinguaLeo) and many other. SDVentures representative offices are open in (New York), Hong Kong, Latvia (Riga), Russia (Moscow), Belarus (Minsk) and other countries.
Biography
1998-2012
In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University. Lomonosov, then postgraduate studies at IMEIMO with a degree in International Relations. In 2003, together with foreign partners, he created the Social Discovery Ventures holding. In 2006 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. Lomonosov, in 2008 he defended his PhD thesis in philosophy. In 2010, he became one of the founders of the Moscow Center for Consciousness Research at Moscow State University. In 2012 he published the book “Boston Zombies: D. Dennett and His Theory of Consciousness.”
2019: Entry into Forbes 200
In December 2019, Dmitry Volkov was among the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes. The magazine estimated the wealth of the co-founder of one of the world's largest dating services, Dating.com, at $750 million.
The publication does not specify what place Volkov occupies in the Forbes 200 ranking. The 2019 list itself includes nine businessmen with a fortune of $750 million, they are in 137th–145th places.
In October 2019, Volkov and his business partner Alla Gubenko combined assets and created the Dating.com Group, which included dating services such as Dating.com, DateMyAge, Cherish, Tubit, AnastasiaDate, ChinaLove, AsianDate and Amolatina. At that time, the total audience of all applications and sites reached 73 million registered users.
Dating.com Group plans to expand: at the end of November 2019, the company bought 100% of the American service Dil Mil for expats from India for $50 million, part of the deal was paid for in shares.
Dmitry Volkov is actively involved in investing. He was an early investor in the music recognition app Shazam, and also invested in the popular Patreon service, which allows you to donate money to content creators. The entrepreneur’s total investments in venture funds by December 2019 are estimated at $50 million.
In the most current Forbes ranking as of December 2019, among the richest businessmen in Russia, the leader of the board of the largest private gas production company in Russia, Novatek, is Leonid Mikhelson with a fortune of $24 billion. In total, there are 100 dollar billionaires and 100 multimillionaires in the ranking. The total wealth of the 200 richest Russians is $496 billion.
Social and scientific activities
As part of his philosophical activities, in 2014, Dmitry Volkov organized a philosophical expedition to the shores of Greenland, which was attended by world-famous philosophers Daniel Dennett, Nick Humphrey, Andy Clark, Jesse Prinz, Derk Pereboom and David Chalmers, as well as students and graduate students of Moscow State University. In addition, Dmitry Volkov is actively interested in contemporary Russian art. With the support of Social Discovery Ventures, “Contemporary Art” albums are published, introducing the public to the work of contemporary artists from
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Biography, life story of Volkov Dmitry Borisovich
Volkov Dmitry Borisovich is a Russian businessman, scientist and philanthropist.
early years
A graduate of the history department of the capital's university, from an early age he had an inclination towards entrepreneurial activity, so after graduating from the university he did not go to work in his specialty. Dmitry decided from his student days what he would do in life. Therefore, immediately after receiving his diploma, he began to promote a business project created in collaboration with foreign partners.
Yesterday's student founded the Social Discovery Ventures holding, which invested in several dozen different business areas. Among them were the TripTogether website, which helped drivers find travel companions and thus save money on travel, the Dating.com portal, through which people met each other, and the social networks Shocase and Streetlife.
Philosophy
Dmitry decided to seriously engage in scientific activities at the time he turned 27 years old. By that time, he had already established his business, so he had time to get another higher education. Having a special attraction to understanding the world, the young entrepreneur chose the Faculty of Philosophy. And again he entered Moscow State University. Daily attendance at lectures required leaving work no later than six o'clock in the evening. Previously, the always busy businessman could not afford this, but he was surprised to discover that it was quite possible. According to Dmitry, he experienced great joy and enjoyed spending time in university classrooms. In the small group in which Volkov studied, true fans of philosophy gathered. Subsequently, Dmitry Volkov became at the origins of the creation of a research center for consciousness, which began work at the faculty.
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Dmitry was not satisfied with traditional studies and decided to continue his studies in graduate school. He even defended his PhD thesis on the works of the outstanding American scientist in the field of consciousness, Daniel Dennett.
Dmitry Volkov was so imbued with the ideas of the hero of his scientific work that he experienced an irresistible desire to meet him and talk face to face. It was not easy, but the Russian figured out how to realize his dream.
Meeting with a thinker
Dmitry learned that the famous philosopher would be giving lectures in Mexico on board a cruise ship. Considering that he would not get a better chance, he purchased tickets for himself and his wife. The Volkov couple set off on a long journey.
Dmitry was worried, because the elderly scientist’s reaction to the offer to communicate with the young Russian philosopher was not clear. But the meeting went well. Moreover, the participants became close friends with each other. The Thinker invited his Russian friend to his villa, and Volkov flew there by helicopter. Then he considered it necessary to come to the Swedish capital and attend the presentation of the prize to the philosopher for his scientific merits.
Expedition
The friends decided to continue discussing philosophical issues in a world far from the bustle of the world. Daniel Dennett, a former experienced yachtsman, pointed out the best place to do this: off the coast of Greenland. To do this, they, as well as dozens of scientists from different countries, embarked on a journey on a schooner.
A cozy wardroom served as a discussion room for the participants of the sea voyage, where they discussed issues of consciousness and will. Philosophical debates alternated with periodic landings on the shore and acquaintance with Arctic nature.
Already at the age of 14, he opened a children's labor exchange. I had some pocket money, but my school performance began to suffer and the business had to be closed. Volkov’s next business turned out to be much more “long-lasting”: in 1998, while a student at the history department of Moscow State University, he founded Social Discovery Ventures. Starting with software development, the company eventually transformed into a venture fund (and its founder, from a historian, retrained as a philosopher and even became a Doctor of Science). SDVentures' portfolio projects include the famous Lingualeo and Shazam, numerous dating sites and specialized social networks. In an interview with Inc. Volkov told how he chooses projects for investment, why an innovator needs to be able to philosophize, and why his offices are decorated with works of contemporary artists, and why his employees participate in art performances.
Connect everyone with everyone
Venture capital funds typically focus on a specific technology or industry. Build expertise in one specific area and can then create synergies between portfolio companies. We focused on products that involve social engineering and help connect people in the virtual space - social networks (they are used by people of all ages) and instant messengers (they have practically replaced SMS messages and telephone communications).
Good Internet projects can scale throughout the world. We invest in those that are primarily focused on Europe and America. And to differentiate ourselves from other funds, we provide companies with marketing expertise. In our office in New York there are many marketers who help projects from Eastern Europe promote in the American market - so that they do not mess things up and reinvent the wheel. In addition, we have developed technologies for chatbots on our own - and provide them to the projects in which we invest. We can also provide them with streaming and video chat technologies.
Facebook, like any universal solution, is not tailored to a specific task (and will always be so). We invest in vertical social networks that bring people together for a specific purpose. For example, Street Life set out to connect people living in the same area and with the same zip code so that they could jointly solve their problems with garbage, safety, or nearby construction. We also invested in the Academia community of scientists - there you can publish scientific works and discuss them together.
It's easier to spend yours
When choosing a project to invest in, I am guided by my interest in the topic (and not just commercial considerations). For example, Halo Neuroscience makes devices to increase neuroplasticity in the motor cortex. I was especially interested in studying this product since my doctoral dissertation is indirectly related to this topic. At the same time, from the very beginning we had no doubt that the company would become commercially successful (and it did).
My own investment opportunities are wider than those of the fund. When you work with other people's money, the responsibility is still greater. And I - since these are my personal funds - certainly have more freedom.
Startup founders are more important to me than the business idea and company structure. Over time, the idea may change beyond recognition, but it is the team that is responsible for translating it into a successful business. For example, one of my latest investments - Fable studio - wants to make a virtual friend with whom it will be interesting to watch movies, listen to music, study and shop on the Internet. The company's founder is former Oculus Story Studio producer Edward Saatchi, one of the world's best specialists in creating VR videos. We met, and I saw that he was distinguished by a practical approach to solving problems and understanding the needs of potential clients. In my opinion, this person is capable of building a successful business.
Who is Dmitry Volkov
Entrepreneur
Volkov is an active participant in the venture capital market. In addition to SDVentures, he manages RD Ventures and Gagarin Capital as GP (General Partner). In a number of other funds (including 500 Startups, iTech Capital and Blockchain Capital) Volkov is an LP (Limited Partner).
Philosopher
Dmitry Volkov is a Doctor of Philosophy and co-founder of the Center for the Study of Consciousness at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. His areas of scientific interest are problems of consciousness, personal identity, free will and moral responsibility. In 2014, Volkov organized an expedition on a sailing schooner to the shores of Greenland with the participation of leading philosophers of the world, and in 2017 and 2018, as part of a group of Russian scientists, he met with the Dalai Lama.
Maecenas
Volkov supports Russian museums (among them the Tretyakov Gallery and Garage) and contemporary artists (in 2015 he financed the release of a series of albums “Contemporary Art”). In 2017, the Artguide publication included the entrepreneur among the 50 most influential figures in Russian art. Volkov himself participates in art performances along with his employees.
Company as a person
Great companies have personality characteristics. People develop sympathy for each other when they find out that there are points of intersection between them, in addition to their profession. For example, singing, stamp collecting, radio or historical reenactments. It's the same with companies. Harley Davidson reflects the free, daring and self-confident male ideal, and Coca-Cola represents the American dream, a symbol of the nation. Apple's marketing grew from the image of a revolutionary - not a conformist and techie, but a creative free person. Personal characteristics are needed not only by clients, but also by company employees - this way they can build some kind of attitude towards it. You can love this image, feel sorry for it and even hate it, but for the most part people are tuned to positive emotions.
People who are dissatisfied with their work cannot create a service that will satisfy the audience. The falsehood, one way or another, comes through, and both consumers and employees feel it. If the company has some kind of ideology and values, then they should be cross-cutting for both users and employees. This does not happen 100%, but you need to strive for it.
Corporate Sovrisk
Contemporary art is part of the corporate life of our foundation. Our meeting rooms have constantly changing exhibitions of paintings, and in the evenings we host lectures by artists, collectors and curators. And the employees themselves participate in various performances. For example, we often go as a group to the Burning Man festival: with art projects, and not just to hang out. Corporate symbols - on T-shirts, T-shirts and backpacks - contain objects from our collection, and we often offer trips to the Garage as gifts to employees.
When we started hanging paintings by contemporary artists in meeting rooms, it caused a colossal protest. Many employees reacted angrily: “We want to see good things - birches, sun and sky - and not these strange figures!” But any emotions - positive or negative - are success. When you introduce something into a company and it doesn’t react at all, that’s a big problem.
Contemporary art is discussed here even in smoking rooms. Of the 400 employees of the Moscow office of SDVentures, approximately 30% have a direct interest in this topic, 50% observe from the outside, 20% are skeptical. But the number of people who are involved in contemporary art is growing. People want the company to have something of its own, and if it is art, they are ready to support it.
Looking at how ordinary objects are seen by the artist, employees willy-nilly become infected with new ideas. For example, our analysts drew a transaction graph in the form of a picture, and the developers presented new software in an artistic form. In general, contemporary art stimulates creativity, and this unexpectedly sprouts in a variety of places. One of our system administrators became an artist himself and made a cool performance.
For business communications, it is important that the image of an entrepreneur is not two-dimensional. When a person simply writes that he founded 3 companies and invested $100 billion, this is not something you could feel sympathy for. That is why in the presentation for the foundation’s partners we add information about all these stories with contemporary art.
It is more pleasant to trust your assets to intelligent people. They live not only for today and think about philosophical and ethical issues. But if I were building some factories or doing transport loading, perhaps other qualities would be needed there.
Philosophy for innovators
In technology and business, a philosophical approach is very useful. It allows one to doubt established social and economic practices and teaches a person to doubt that the present situation will remain the same tomorrow. This skill, in principle, is useful to any person, but especially to an innovator.
Developing your ability to think critically is very important. According to American tycoon Mark Cuban, over time, philosophical education will be more in demand than technical education. Programming can be automated to a great extent; today it is not at all the same as it was 20 years ago.
KYKY went to Moscow to see the office of the international Internet holding Social Discovery Ventures and tell Minsk IT specialists what it’s like to work in a company that invests in applications like Shazam and Dating.com. Monkeys by Oleg Kulik, “babaykas” on the walls and an atmosphere of constant creativity - perhaps this is the first office in our memory where programmers are inspired by modern art.
It was scary to go to Moscow. This huge and evil city usually sends you, a Belarusian, to three letters. The subway is rude, the traffic jams are crazy, everyone is running, late and angry at each other. But this time Moscow was so affectionate that I wanted to wrap myself in a white fur coat, lie down on the sofa and stay in the Social Discovery Ventures office forever.
In general, IT specialists are multifaceted people. One may enjoy sports in his free time, another may enjoy riding on the river with crocodiles, and a third may enjoy cross-stitching. Dmitry Volkov, co-owner of Social Discovery Ventures, is passionate about contemporary art. His office workers look at artists' work every day. For example, in their meeting room they have monkeys by Oleg Kulik, a representative of Moscow actionism. “Everyone starts thinking deeply when they find out that monkeys are dead,” HR tells me. “What do you mean, dead? Why?" – I’m perplexed. “You see, you are thinking too.”
About this theme: IT guy! Love the country, and let the country respond in kind, and not six years with confiscation." 
When we were told about the Social Discovery Ventures office in Moscow back in Minsk, they said that it was very beautiful, because its creators were inspired by the offices of Google and Twitter. I was at the Google office in Dublin, so I expected some kind of playroom for adults (except without a ball pit to dive into), where IT people would spend at least 15 hours a day, and therefore do twice as much work. The Social Discovery Ventures office blew my mind.
Vitruvian aliens, "babayki" and utility networks
It all starts with a logo depicting a Vitruvian man with two pairs of legs and a third eye that is larger than the other two. It is called homo creativus and crowns a whole series of corporate heroes - from Darth Vader to aliens. Employees at the Social Discovery Ventures office affectionately call them “babaykas.” The strange creatures were invented by artist Yulia Kosulnikova, who, in addition to working on the decoration of the premises, made corporate films here. In general, mixing hobbies with work responsibilities is only encouraged here. For example, one of the SDVentures employees bakes cupcakes for corporate events in his free time.
The biggest of the “babaykas” is called Lesha. This is a giant painted half bison that stands in front of the elevator exit on the bottom floor. “Lesha should have had wheels under the platform so that the guard would take him for a walk. But now no one takes Lesha,” says Dmitry Volkov. At first, employees considered Lesha not positive enough, but when a flower appeared in his mouth, everyone began to like the creature much more. In winter, the guys put Lesha on a white fur coat.
About this theme: Programmers tell jokes about programmers 
"Manager of the 21st century"
Social Discovery Ventures is the first office in my memory that harmoniously combines the incongruous: the pragmatic brain of an IT specialist and the wild imagination of an artist. In the reception area in front of the director’s office there is a painting “Manager of the 21st Century”. You feel like you’re part of a code that a Moscow yuppie in a white shirt is concentrating on. I had previously seen a similar move from a Belarusian: the heroes of the painting “Come and See” look at the viewer with bewilderment, and the painting changes its meaning depending on where it is placed: in a museum, a morgue or a strip club.
About this theme: KYKY is presenting a new album from the Oprints group – IT guys with huge balls. 18+ When the Social Discovery Ventures office was being designed, the Pompidou Center in Paris was taken as a reference, where engineering communications are completely turned outward and are part of the facade. Therefore, the air ducts on the ceiling stretch like silver snakes, and the walls are covered with special paint on which you can draw and write. As an attempt to recreate network communication not in a corporate chat on computers, but offline. We were forbidden to damage fences and entrance walls when we were children? “When people see that this is possible, they stop being afraid,” says Dmitry Volkov.
Hire 48 Belarusians and join the HTP
Social Discovery Ventures has many offices around the world. For example, in Morocco. “Why are you going to Moscow? Maybe it’s better to go to the ocean in Casablanca?” – our Minsk friends joked when we boasted about our travel plans. Social Discovery Ventures has a representative office in Latin America and an office in Riga, which is focused on finance, because Latvia has more qualified financial personnel. At the same time, the Minsk office of Social Discovery Ventures is a developer. It is clear that we went to visit for a reason. The company intends to expand in Belarus, and therefore shows what it does in order to interest our strong developers. We, of course, immediately asked whether Russians were afraid that the salaries of Belarusian programmers during the crisis were almost equal to Russian ones, and in some cases became higher?
Employees of Social Discovery Ventures do not deny - yes, the Minsk market is more expensive. But they need diamonds. The plans are to hire 48 Belarusians in Minsk and join the HTP.
About this theme: Post of the day. “If only the USA had orders like in Belarus, or why we don’t have Apple” What do they do at the SDVentures office? “We are primarily an investment company. We invest in technologies in the field of Social Discovery, allowing people to communicate with each other in accordance with their interests,” says Dmitry Volkov. One of these technologies is Layer’s messenger platform. It provides a so-called White label solution - a solution that other companies integrate into their products. The messenger itself has no name.
“Look: when you use a phone, it’s called an iPhone, right? Do you know which companies made the chips for this phone? And there are about twenty such companies. It’s the same here: we are not selling a brand, but a software component. Now, for example, negotiations are underway for Tinder to use this messenger. We also have our own products, one of them is Trip Together, a technology for finding travel companions around the world. We also invested in Lingualeo, an application for communication and language learning. We have a large number of technologies for dating sites, and we provide these technologies, including under the dating.com brand. That is, we act as an investor and developer,” explains Dmitry.
About this theme: Post of the day. “The big game with the eggheads has begun” 
According to Andrey, one of the company’s developers, it’s cool to work at SDVentures because people from lower positions go almost to management positions. But Andrey found it boring to work at Yandex and Mail.ru. “You can sit on your butt, and if the technology appears, go to a conference to test it. But here you can do anything if you can prove that it will have a business effect. We have a whole department for this,” says Andrey. They are very proud of the history of Marat, who started as a developer and is now a co-owner of the PayOnline subsidiary, which owns the entire eighth floor of the office. There is much less art and philosophy in Marat’s world, and he allowed only five “babaykas” to be painted on his floor.
How Oleg Kulik built a chatbot for a corporate event in Nevada
About this theme: “When will people stop whining and start thinking: I’m doing Belarus?” American Dream by artist Zakhar Kudin It is clear that in an office where a riot of imagination is encouraged, there should be incredible corporate events. Last year, the Social Discovery Ventures team went to the Nevada desert with a team of artists and programmers for the Burning Man festival. Especially for this, together with the great and terrible Oleg Kulik, a robot-like monkey was created that moved and spoke. Dmitry Volkov shares his memories: “Oleg was very interested in technology. When we started making this Oracletang with him, I thought it would just be a sculpture. But literally a month later he was already convincing me that artificial intelligence was needed so that this monkey would respond to language and movements, tracking them with his eyes. I was shocked - instead of making a work of art, he decided to take over our business and build a chatbot. I say: “Oleg, wait, the best minds of humanity have been working on this problem for many years! Do you want to do it in two months?” - "Yes, sure!" - Oleg answered.
He was not at all worried about technological difficulties, and, naturally, as a creative person, he said: “Either this or not at all!”
This was a good message to our programmers, because they had not heard this for a long time. It was a very productive collaboration.”
We are talking in a meeting room, where next to the dead monkeys of Oleg Kulik (of course, he did not kill them himself - he simply made portraits of stuffed animals in a local history museum) there are works by the famous Russian artist Pavel Pepperstein, as well as an art object by technological artist Dmitry Morozov “Silk” - The monitor receives the current bitcoin rate, and due to its fluctuations, the tension of the strings changes - the result is meditative music. They say it sounds like “the melody of dwarves mining for gold in caves.” By the way, Silk is the name of an online exchange that had billions in turnover (like Aliexpress, only “black”) until it was shut down by the FBI. I want to joke: if SDVentures installs a similar installation in Minsk, they can make music based on fluctuations in the dollar exchange rate - Belarusians will simply not be able to tear themselves away from such an art object.
In general, the good thing about the SD Ventures office is that here you want to be smarter than you are
About this theme: "The Power of Erotic Capital." Master of Philosophy on Thongs and Sucking Women's Mouths Understand the beyond, open your third eye. Philosophize, after all. Philosophy is of great importance to the CEO of a company. Dmitry Volkov is a candidate of philosophical sciences, founder of the Moscow Center for the Study of Consciousness at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University and the author of several books on the topic of the study of consciousness. In addition, Dmitry is a member of the board of trustees of the Tretyakov Gallery Support Fund.
Volkov happily discusses what the worlds of IT and art have in common: “Artists, especially modern ones, do not see the world through the eyes of the average person. They are constantly looking for a new perspective on what already exists. The same trend is needed in technology. After all, the worst thing is inertia. You can’t do this in the technology business – if you do it the way it was yesterday, then tomorrow you won’t survive as a company. If Henry Ford had asked the average person what kind of transportation he wanted, people would have said, “Well, we need horses to consume less oats and carriages to be more stable.” His answer to this was a car for about the same price as a horse. There are market expectations that can be met. But there is always the opportunity to come up with something else that will exceed consumer expectations.”
This idea was also illustrated by technological artist Dmitry Kavarga at a lecture for employees, which ended our day at the company’s office. He showed on the screen his interactive kinetic sci-art installations and biogenic sculptures: these were lava, oil, dog entrails, which were exhibited in the museum of Academician I. P. Pavlov.
About this theme: Panamanian namesakes. Which Belarusian businessmen have been spotted offshore? The programmers asked very professional questions: “Who programmed all this for you? How does lava flow, who was at the controls? That is, they were not interested in the moment of morality and provocation. They were interested in how things worked, like kids in a garage looking at the structure of a beetle's wings. At that moment I thought: in our world, a programmer is allowed everything. And if the IT industry supports contemporary art, then this is a great success for the artist and the world as a whole. After all, a timely shake-up and provocation will only make us all better
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