Arkady Volozh
Arkady Volozh
Arkady Yurievich Volozhis the principal founder of Russian search engine Yandex. He has been the company's CEO and a director since 2000. Arkady founded Yandex in 1997. In 2000, he left his position as CEO of CompTek International to become the CEO of Yandex...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth11 February 1964
CountryRussian Federation
Arkady Volozh quotes about
technology russia culture
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.
search-engine products engines
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.
smartphones car moscow
When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see whats ahead of them.
atmosphere california cared close culture free maybe money nobody origin originated scientific soviet
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.
two program operating-systems
Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.