Dmitry Gurski
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Because if it's a bad harvest of potatoes, then vegetables or apples or something. And something you will have to eat, but you can't fake that.
My first job for money was gathering of mushrooms. We had two types of kids in our village. Gatherers of berries and gatherers of mushrooms. And it was two different types of businesses. Because in case of berries, you're like just sitting on the same place in the wood and approximately you may gather the same volume of berries per day and stable income.
My first job for money was gathering of mushrooms. We had two types of kids in our village. Gatherers of berries and gatherers of mushrooms. And it was two different types of businesses. Because in case of berries, you're like just sitting on the same place in the wood and approximately you may gather the same volume of berries per day and stable income.
My first job for money was gathering of mushrooms. We had two types of kids in our village. Gatherers of berries and gatherers of mushrooms. And it was two different types of businesses. Because in case of berries, you're like just sitting on the same place in the wood and approximately you may gather the same volume of berries per day and stable income.
In case of mushrooms, you should walk around the wood and if you're lucky, you may get much mushrooms and even a lot of money, but another day you will get nothing. Psychologically, all kids were divided into two categories, who preferred fixed income or who preferred mushroom gathering. And I and my brother, we always were mushroom gatherers.
In case of mushrooms, you should walk around the wood and if you're lucky, you may get much mushrooms and even a lot of money, but another day you will get nothing. Psychologically, all kids were divided into two categories, who preferred fixed income or who preferred mushroom gathering. And I and my brother, we always were mushroom gatherers.
In case of mushrooms, you should walk around the wood and if you're lucky, you may get much mushrooms and even a lot of money, but another day you will get nothing. Psychologically, all kids were divided into two categories, who preferred fixed income or who preferred mushroom gathering. And I and my brother, we always were mushroom gatherers.
We always preferred to take a chance for bigger gains and to have this journey around the world, rather than to sit on the place for fixed income.
We always preferred to take a chance for bigger gains and to have this journey around the world, rather than to sit on the place for fixed income.
We always preferred to take a chance for bigger gains and to have this journey around the world, rather than to sit on the place for fixed income.
Between mushroom gathering and founding of Flo was 20 years. It means that it was a long professional journey before we founded Flo. I spent half of my professional life in book publishing. I wrote books by myself, computer books, and then we worked with my brother for a publishing house, and then we started our own publishing house.
Between mushroom gathering and founding of Flo was 20 years. It means that it was a long professional journey before we founded Flo. I spent half of my professional life in book publishing. I wrote books by myself, computer books, and then we worked with my brother for a publishing house, and then we started our own publishing house.
Between mushroom gathering and founding of Flo was 20 years. It means that it was a long professional journey before we founded Flo. I spent half of my professional life in book publishing. I wrote books by myself, computer books, and then we worked with my brother for a publishing house, and then we started our own publishing house.
I spent approximately 10 years in this world, world of books, and I was responsible for approximately 2,000 titles of educational books. And honestly, I had a big pleasure from this work because it was so material. You're working with something and you're getting material results. It's almost like you're getting your baby and you may touch it. It was very physical pleasure with these books.
I spent approximately 10 years in this world, world of books, and I was responsible for approximately 2,000 titles of educational books. And honestly, I had a big pleasure from this work because it was so material. You're working with something and you're getting material results. It's almost like you're getting your baby and you may touch it. It was very physical pleasure with these books.
I spent approximately 10 years in this world, world of books, and I was responsible for approximately 2,000 titles of educational books. And honestly, I had a big pleasure from this work because it was so material. You're working with something and you're getting material results. It's almost like you're getting your baby and you may touch it. It was very physical pleasure with these books.
And then a very big change happened when App Store was opened in 2008 and 2009. And that moment we decided to work with mobile apps. And the idea was very simple to start from content apps based on books. And then gradually, gradually, it's a longer story, but we got to Flow.
And then a very big change happened when App Store was opened in 2008 and 2009. And that moment we decided to work with mobile apps. And the idea was very simple to start from content apps based on books. And then gradually, gradually, it's a longer story, but we got to Flow.
And then a very big change happened when App Store was opened in 2008 and 2009. And that moment we decided to work with mobile apps. And the idea was very simple to start from content apps based on books. And then gradually, gradually, it's a longer story, but we got to Flow.
Really, we had much more than two. We had two attempts to create a successful period tracker. But before Flow, me and my brothers and partners, we started two dozen different apps, some of them successful, some of them less successful. My brother and me participated in different projects for a different extent. We had success with these apps. We had six exits up to this moment.