Interviews - AIN

12.12.18

Two friends from Odesa opened 16 virtual reality clubs “Cube” over 2 years. Income from each club reaches up to $5,000 per month

How does CUBE work? All clubs are made in the same style: a room with black walls, floor and ceiling, and flickering neon lighting. Firstly, it looks beautiful, and secondly, according to Mikh, black color greatly reduces the cost of

30.11.18

Dmytro Zaporozhets, GitLab: “I believe that GitLab can be called a Ukrainian startup”

Is Ukraine your permanent place of residence? Yes, I live in Kharkiv. In Ukraine, besides me, there are two more people in the company. How many people are there in the company? Now there are 352 people total. You have

21.11.18

Roman Kirigetov, Kabanchik, “I can abandon business for three months and it will continue successful running”

Since the moment of transaction many changes have occurred. Let’s start from the team. How many employees do you have now? Right now we have 12 employees [Editor’s note: The original article was published on March 07, 2018] . Our team

17.10.18

Michael Balyasny, CEO Attendify: “Entrepreneurship is a disproportionate result when using the limited resources. Ukraine is going in the opposite direction.”

Tell us a little about yourself: where were you born, when did you move to the US? I was born in Kiev in 1983, my family immigrated to the United States in 1989, shortly before the fall of the Soviet

11.10.18

Andy Baynes, a former Apple employee talks about doing business in Ukraine: “People are driven by innovations here”

You’ve been at Apple, Nest, Google, in general what was your area of expertise at those companies? At Apple I was around 13 years in product design division in California. I worked on both the iOS and Mac product range,