Yandex Volozha: History of creating a dream company

Quote
“This is a miracle that Yandex happened in the country. It is important not to break it, and we are responsible for this. ”
About what
Yandex is a modern search engine, the convenience of which was appreciated by millions of users around the world. In fact, for many years this is the main search engine of the Russian-speaking world, which has digested more than 150 million requests per day and is part of the TOP-20 of the most popular sites in the world. In addition, Yandex is also one of the 30 most innovative companies in the world and one of the most desirable places to work in Russia.
Creator of Yandex - Arkady Volozh - one of the few public Russian businessmen, which is not known about. People’s rumor is as follows: this guy created himself, without loans, check and collateral auctions, scams and protectionism. How was everything really? The author of the book, a professional journalist, involved hundreds of sources and dozens of personal contacts to find out the whole truth and lay out the components of Yandex on the shelves.
Why read
Volozh has always been distinguished not only by strong charisma, a sequence in work and life, a tendency to calculated risk and improvisation, a talent to select a team and create conditions for the heyday of each employee. Yandex Volozha is a good master class for any entrepreneur and not only. To achieve success, Volozh needed a quarter century. This time was also enough to create one of the most advanced systems of observation and analysis of people"s behavior in the Internet. Each click is monitored, for each of almost 100 million of its users, Yandex automatically creates a dossier in which there are all our habits, interests, passions, achievements and requests. And this portrait is then successfully monetized. How does all this work from the inside? By the number of Internet users, Russia is the first in Europe and the sixth in the world. That is, any processes and phenomena occurring in Runet are important for the development of the entire world network. Therefore, the story of Arcadia Volozha and Yandex, opening new patterns and giving new knowledge about Runet, offers a new understanding of business and development trends on the global Internet.
About the author
Vladislav Yuryevich Dorofeev - a professional journalist and writer, poet, translator. He was a turner, a watchman, a janitor, a loader, a meat cutter, a stage mechanic at the Operetta Theater, an engineer, a postman and an artist, a movie documentary, a reporter and a TV presenter, a observer and a special correspondent, and the media leader. Now he is working in the Kommersant Publishing House. Co -author and author of almost 20 books (who have become national bestsellers) The nominee of literary awards: Aski, “National Bestseller”, “Russian Bunin”. Married, six children