THESE 3 companies were founded by Russians – you definitely know them!
Many believe that all the world's largest IT companies are projects from the US: Apple, Google, Microsoft...
But today you will learn that some global tech giants were founded by people from Russia and the USSR!
In this video, I will share three amazing success stories:
💻 ABBYY FineReader – how MIPT students created a company with offices in 200 countries;
🧠 Evernote – a note-taking app founded by Stepan Pachikov, an engineer from the USSR;
🚕 inDrive – a service born in Yakutia and becoming a competitor to Uber and Yandex Taxi.
You will learn:
who was behind the creation of these IT brands;
how they started from scratch in the 90s;
what challenges and victories made them world leaders;
and why Russian engineers and entrepreneurs are true technology pioneers.
👇 Tell us in the comments if you knew that ABBYY, Evernote, and inDrive were all founded by people from Russia.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Start
00:22 ABBYY FineRider
03:26 Evernote
05:12 InDrive
07:28 Conclusion