Arkady Volozh Quotes

Russia, Entrepreneur
February 11, 1964

Arkady Yurievich Volozh (born 11 February 1964) is a Russian billionaire technology entrepreneur, investor, computer scientist, and philanthropist, best known as the founder and CEO of Yandex. Yandex is a technology company that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning; it is one of Europe's largest Internet companies, operating Russia's most popular search engine. Volozh co-founded several IT enterprises and in his early days, and pioneered the development of search with new technology advancements and search software companies.

Also known as Investor, Computer Scientist, Philanthropist, Chief Executive Officer

Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.

Arkady Volozh
- Search
Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

Arkady Volozh
- People
- Good
- Work

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Arkady Volozh
- Up
- Business
- Search
Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

Arkady Volozh
- Culture
- Technology
I think Yandex is something in between two different cultures. One originated from the old Soviet culture of the scientific institute. It was a free atmosphere of scientists, maybe too free because nobody cared about making money. Another origin is something close to what you usually see in California startups.

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- Different
- Money
- Free
When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see what's ahead of them.

Arkady Volozh
- Car
- Travel