Essays
Things I think about while building Chota: startups, technology, ambition, and the people who help along the way.
Full essays are available in English and Russian. English versions are translations of my Russian originals.
2026
- An unscheduled post: while I sleep
- Playing in a bigger league
- In scarcity and in abundance
- Getting used to technological miracles
- Hungry to build
- Keep your idealism
- Try things while you are young
- Competition and a window of opportunity
- A company as a workshop
- What Steve Jobs taught me
- The finish line keeps moving
- Six habits of startup culture
- Give student founders time
- Builders before accelerators
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