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  1. Arkady Volozh demonstrates Yandex's driverless car prototype to Vladimir Putin at Yandex HQ in 2017. Volozh is a serial entrepreneur with a background in computer science. After working at a state pipeline research institute, he started a small business importing personal computers from Austria.

    • You might say he has something for Russian technology. There is little doubt that he possesses an innate understanding when it comes to Russian technology.
    • His schooling was uniquely Russian. He attended a school called the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. That's quite a mouthful, to say the least.
    • He was one of the first people in Russian to get in on the technology craze. He has always had an interest in technology. As far back as 1990, he was working to start his own software company, something that he initially became interested in when buying computers from Austria and then having them imported into Russia in order to sell them for a profit.
    • He started his own business shortly after landing his first job. As a matter of fact, he had only been working at his first job for a short time when he decided that he was much more an entrepreneur than a typical, run-of-the-mill employee.
  2. www.forbes.com › profile › arkady-volozhArkady Volozh - Forbes

    4 days ago · Volozh started working on search in 1989, which led to him establishing Arkadia Company in 1990, a company that developed search software. His early achievements include the development of...

  3. Jul 16, 2024 · Once the darling of Russia's internet scene, Volozh co-founded Yandex in 1997 during the global dotcom boom, ultimately creating a company that would dominate Russia's online search market,...

  4. Mar 22, 2022 · It took 20 years for Arkady Volozh to build Yandex into Russia’s Google, Uber, Spotify, and Amazon combined. It took 20 days for everything to crumble.

  5. Jul 16, 2024 · Once the darling of Russia's internet scene, Volozh co-founded Yandex in 1997 during the global dotcom boom, ultimately creating a company that would dominate Russia's online search market, list successfully on Nasdaq and at one point reach a market capitalisation of around $30 billion.

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  7. Jul 19, 2024 · Russian tech entrepreneur Arkady Volozh turned the search engine Yandex into a multi-billion-dollar company. Now, he has left Putin's empire for Amsterdam. His next move?