About me
How to work with me
- Give me direct feedback. Skip the small talk.
Hot takes
Talking to a thoughtful person who disagrees with me is my favourite kind of conversation.
Business
- Raise money only when the money itself is a competitive edge.
- Most product failures come down to two things: slow time-to-market and missing metrics.
- Developers fall in love with the process of building the product instead of the product.
- Dedicated people beat smart people.
- Customer support is the CEO's job.
Financial
- Diversification is usually an admission that you don't understand your investments.
- Copying large funds wastes the biggest advantage of a small portfolio: you can take positions they can't.
- Build your first passive income before you graduate.
Life
- Help everyone once. Keep helping those who reciprocate, stop helping those who don't. Game theory.
- Most possessions are constraints you paid for.
Art
- The Bruegels and Bosch are the greatest artists in history.
Languages
English, Russian, Latvian, and a bit of German.