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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

There are always extremes, but most of people, they have plus minus the same brain. And believe me, I know many billionaires, many, many, many successful entrepreneurs, and not just entrepreneurs, and I have no syngenesis. But I believe that what really distinguish successful people and people who are not successful beyond just luck, luck is really significant.

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

There are always extremes, but most of people, they have plus minus the same brain. And believe me, I know many billionaires, many, many, many successful entrepreneurs, and not just entrepreneurs, and I have no syngenesis. But I believe that what really distinguish successful people and people who are not successful beyond just luck, luck is really significant.

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

is the ability to take risk and then work really, really hard and persistent for a long time. Most of people, they just can't work really hard for a very long time, and it's what distinguishes successful people and less successful 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

is the ability to take risk and then work really, really hard and persistent for a long time. Most of people, they just can't work really hard for a very long time, and it's what distinguishes successful people and less successful 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

is the ability to take risk and then work really, really hard and persistent for a long time. Most of people, they just can't work really hard for a very long time, and it's what distinguishes successful people and less successful 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

For me, the hardest time in my life was when I was in university, but also I was writing my books at nights. I usually was working for 18 hours per day for years and was sleeping just six hours or so and four years. But then I achieved a lot because of that. I have a very interesting story about my books.

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 me, the hardest time in my life was when I was in university, but also I was writing my books at nights. I usually was working for 18 hours per day for years and was sleeping just six hours or so and four years. But then I achieved a lot because of that. I have a very interesting story about my books.

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 me, the hardest time in my life was when I was in university, but also I was writing my books at nights. I usually was working for 18 hours per day for years and was sleeping just six hours or so and four years. But then I achieved a lot because of that. I have a very interesting story about my books.

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

Sometimes you need to see many things in prospects and you need to put many dots on the map of your life. In 2004, I wrote a big book about ActionScript. It's a program language of Mercantile Media Flash. And at that time, I didn't learn much from that. But approximately next year, in 2005, this book was gifted to one young boy. He was maybe 12 years old, by his brother.

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

Sometimes you need to see many things in prospects and you need to put many dots on the map of your life. In 2004, I wrote a big book about ActionScript. It's a program language of Mercantile Media Flash. And at that time, I didn't learn much from that. But approximately next year, in 2005, this book was gifted to one young boy. He was maybe 12 years old, by his brother.

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

Sometimes you need to see many things in prospects and you need to put many dots on the map of your life. In 2004, I wrote a big book about ActionScript. It's a program language of Mercantile Media Flash. And at that time, I didn't learn much from that. But approximately next year, in 2005, this book was gifted to one young boy. He was maybe 12 years old, by his brother.

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

And he said, if you learn programming from this book, you will become a big person. And he learned programming from this book. He started to practice Flash programming. And then 10 years after, 15 years after, he became co-founder of MSQRD. We sold to Facebook and then we used part of this money to finance Flo.

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

And he said, if you learn programming from this book, you will become a big person. And he learned programming from this book. He started to practice Flash programming. And then 10 years after, 15 years after, he became co-founder of MSQRD. We sold to Facebook and then we used part of this money to finance Flo.

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

And he said, if you learn programming from this book, you will become a big person. And he learned programming from this book. He started to practice Flash programming. And then 10 years after, 15 years after, he became co-founder of MSQRD. We sold to Facebook and then we used part of this money to finance Flo.

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

It means that if I didn't throw this book in 2004, then probably he would not learn programming and MSQRD would not happen. And then Flo would not have money to be financed. But the distance between these two events was more than 10 years. And in your life, very often you just need much time to see how all lines will be connected. But you have dots to be connected. You need to have dots.

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

It means that if I didn't throw this book in 2004, then probably he would not learn programming and MSQRD would not happen. And then Flo would not have money to be financed. But the distance between these two events was more than 10 years. And in your life, very often you just need much time to see how all lines will be connected. But you have dots to be connected. You need to have dots.

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

It means that if I didn't throw this book in 2004, then probably he would not learn programming and MSQRD would not happen. And then Flo would not have money to be financed. But the distance between these two events was more than 10 years. And in your life, very often you just need much time to see how all lines will be connected. But you have dots to be connected. You need to have dots.

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 need to do something. You need to move forward.

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 need to do something. You need to move forward.

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 need to do something. You need to move forward.