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Dmitry Gurski

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
576 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

For example, if you have a huge excitement, but also like a huge stress in case of problems, probably it's difficult to be a CEO. And my advantage is that I'm kind of low personality. It means that I never feel too much excitement.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

For example, if you have a huge excitement, but also like a huge stress in case of problems, probably it's difficult to be a CEO. And my advantage is that I'm kind of low personality. It means that I never feel too much excitement.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

For example, if you have a huge excitement, but also like a huge stress in case of problems, probably it's difficult to be a CEO. And my advantage is that I'm kind of low personality. It means that I never feel too much excitement.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

but also I never feel too much stress and because of that I'm just in case of all our calamities I was very very calm and I didn't have much stress I just played my duty what was the biggest calamity do you think when you look back now what was the oh that was hard

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

but also I never feel too much stress and because of that I'm just in case of all our calamities I was very very calm and I didn't have much stress I just played my duty what was the biggest calamity do you think when you look back now what was the oh that was hard

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

but also I never feel too much stress and because of that I'm just in case of all our calamities I was very very calm and I didn't have much stress I just played my duty what was the biggest calamity do you think when you look back now what was the oh that was hard

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

that moment when political instability in Belarus and then war in Ukraine and we had to relocate urgently the whole company and also I had to relocate myself in two days. I spent 38 years in Belarus and I built my life there. I had like my house, my gardens and I spent many years to grow my gardens and then I had to make decision to

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

that moment when political instability in Belarus and then war in Ukraine and we had to relocate urgently the whole company and also I had to relocate myself in two days. I spent 38 years in Belarus and I built my life there. I had like my house, my gardens and I spent many years to grow my gardens and then I had to make decision to

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

that moment when political instability in Belarus and then war in Ukraine and we had to relocate urgently the whole company and also I had to relocate myself in two days. I spent 38 years in Belarus and I built my life there. I had like my house, my gardens and I spent many years to grow my gardens and then I had to make decision to

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

move out of Belarus in two days and I have never come back and then the same decision most of our people had to make and it was really difficult. Could you imagine that you have built all your life in countries and in two days you must move to another country with your family and it was really difficult and it traumatized me and our people a lot.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

move out of Belarus in two days and I have never come back and then the same decision most of our people had to make and it was really difficult. Could you imagine that you have built all your life in countries and in two days you must move to another country with your family and it was really difficult and it traumatized me and our people a lot.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

move out of Belarus in two days and I have never come back and then the same decision most of our people had to make and it was really difficult. Could you imagine that you have built all your life in countries and in two days you must move to another country with your family and it was really difficult and it traumatized me and our people a lot.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I believe even more. I believe that when we started in 2022, we had 70% of our employees in Belarus. It was more than 200, and 90% of them were relocated with families in several days. How was that process? Really difficult because borders were closed. It was impossible to get papers, and we had to organize no flights, and we had to organize... charters to Armenia and the Turk and then organize.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I believe even more. I believe that when we started in 2022, we had 70% of our employees in Belarus. It was more than 200, and 90% of them were relocated with families in several days. How was that process? Really difficult because borders were closed. It was impossible to get papers, and we had to organize no flights, and we had to organize... charters to Armenia and the Turk and then organize.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I believe even more. I believe that when we started in 2022, we had 70% of our employees in Belarus. It was more than 200, and 90% of them were relocated with families in several days. How was that process? Really difficult because borders were closed. It was impossible to get papers, and we had to organize no flights, and we had to organize... charters to Armenia and the Turk and then organize.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

You ordered charters? Yeah, because we didn't have flights and it was impossible to make flights to Europe because all flights were prohibited from the region. Did the company suffer in any way? Of course, for half a year we

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

You ordered charters? Yeah, because we didn't have flights and it was impossible to make flights to Europe because all flights were prohibited from the region. Did the company suffer in any way? Of course, for half a year we

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

You ordered charters? Yeah, because we didn't have flights and it was impossible to make flights to Europe because all flights were prohibited from the region. Did the company suffer in any way? Of course, for half a year we

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

didn't have any progress with our product because all people were so stressed and defocused by moving families and it was a huge huge destruction and it was very expensive as well. How much did it cost? Many millions. It's very expensive but it was significant to do because company, it's a tech company and it's about people and like this company would not exist without people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

didn't have any progress with our product because all people were so stressed and defocused by moving families and it was a huge huge destruction and it was very expensive as well. How much did it cost? Many millions. It's very expensive but it was significant to do because company, it's a tech company and it's about people and like this company would not exist without people.