Leadership&Management
To push the candy out of the domestic market by changing the logo, Enric Bernat turned to his friend, the surrealist artist Salvador Dali. In a cafe, on a napkin, he sketched a yellow daisy, in the center of which he wrote the name – Chupa Chups
Today we have entered the retail banking business from all sides and now we manage clients not only of banks, but also of MFOs, insurance companies such as OSAGO, CASCO. We are the entry point for the client and standardize the experience in purchasing bulk products
There is a difference between an entrepreneur and a businessman. A businessman does not work with a hypothesis, but with statistics and understandable business processes. The entrepreneur has a hypothesis – there is a problem that they are willing to pay for. This is a special style of thinking. A startup is, first of all, entrepreneurship. And an entrepreneur starts earning when he becomes a businessman
Our task – to insure the client, to give maximum control at the stage of moderation of goods, and at the stage of interaction with merchants, and at the stage of delivery, because the delivery is not ours, and market providers: “Ukrposhta” and “Novaya Pochta”
The first batch of Barbies was tested by a hundred little girls and their mothers. The women noted that the toy was vulgar and could harm their daughters’ psyche. The girls said it was impossible to imagine a prettier doll. Ruth Handler confided in the children.
Today 1 million Barbies are sold weekly
Our key difference is that you can’t bring us money and say: “Here’s your money, manage it”. We do the client’s risk profile, we help define goals, but all decisions are up to the user. Our task is to help him do this as reasonably as possible and with the minimum commission
Ukraine has the opportunity to become an IT country. I would say that the choice is like this: either poverty or IT. If we manage to maintain the existing level of freedom and add economic growth to it, we will become one of the most successful and comfortable countries in Europe
We did not close Connect.ua — we transformed it. There is no reason for Ukraine to have its own social network. The main reason is that most of the population speaks Russian. The Russian market absorbs ours. A local player will not pay off
Psychologists say that around the age of 14 our childhood ends – with all the fantasies, excess energy and irrepressible desire to play. But we continue to live in a world of toys and games. Our almanac’s interviewee, Pavel Ovchinnikov, knows all about toys. He believes that the theme of the relationship “man – toy” is inexhaustible. And almost as important as the relationship between man and God
Ukraine has a very underdeveloped cybersecurity market. This is mainly because those in charge at the state level are doing the wrong things. There is no driving force to shape the market. There are no laws and rules of the game
The IT business responds to any challenges faster than traditional industries. In the next decade, remote work will replace many office jobs. Perhaps, it will lead to the outflow of qualified employees from big cities, will save the travel industry, which was undercut by quarantine, and will contribute to the development of outsourcing
Yuval Harari: «In the pursuit of health, happiness and power, man will change first one of his traits, then another, then a third, and so eventually he will cease to be human. We are happy when reality meets our needs. The trouble is that the more comfortable life is, the more exorbitant the demands»