Arkady Volozh Quotes

Arkady Volozh — Russian Businessman born on February 11, 1964,

Arkady Yurievich Volozh (born February 11, 1964, Atyrau, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic) is 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 of CEO at CompTek International to become the CEO of Yandex... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

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

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